{"id":306,"date":"2008-08-19T19:15:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2008-08-19T19:15:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T17:15:42","slug":"tiling-terminals-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"tiling terminals manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenshu.net\/terminator\/\">terminator<\/a> (thanks go to Nicolas Valcarcel for asking me to sponsor a Debian upload, thus forcing me to try it, and Asheesh Laroia for doing a lightning talk at debconf about it), but I&#8217;m not convinced.<br \/>\n&#8211; More keybindings are clearly missing. You can only switch terminals using Previous\/Next keybindings.<br \/>\n&#8211; More features would be great, like the ability to switch the position of two terminals (so you could reorganize them).<br \/>\n&#8211; It has some small usability problems, like the fact that the config is text-based, not using gconf, that it&#8217;s not possible to change the config without restarting it, that the title bar doesn&#8217;t display anything useful most of the time, since it prefixes the current terminal&#8217;s title with &#8220;Terminator: &#8220;, etc.<\/p>\n<p><b>So, is there any other tiling terminals manager I should try, before filing tons of feature requests on terminator?<\/b> My other requirement is that it mustn&#8217;t reinvent the wheel, but use the gnome-terminal widget.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried terminator (thanks go to Nicolas Valcarcel for asking me to sponsor a Debian upload, thus forcing me to try it, and Asheesh Laroia for doing a lightning talk at debconf about it), but I&#8217;m not convinced. &#8211; More keybindings are clearly missing. You can only switch terminals using Previous\/Next keybindings. &#8211; More features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetdebian","category-planetubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}