On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 22:25, Gabriel Gunderson <g...@gundy.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Alex Esplin <alex.esp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Terminator is quite configurable, and has lots of things to tweak and >> tinker with, which was another plus for me, too. > > What does Terminator give you that screen doesn't?
This has already been partially answered, but it gives me the ability to divide pixels in my terminal the way I want to. I was testing Moab in a grid environment (simulating multiple clusters each running their own Moab instance, controlled by a "master" Moab) the other day, and Terminator gave me the ability to have 4 chunks of screen each devoted to a different Moab peer. I ran screen in each of those chunks, with one window for gdb and one a normal terminal to send commands to Moab from. In another chunk, I had a screen session with gdb and a normal terminal for sending commands to the master Moab. And in another chunk I had space to run hg bisect to find the offending commit for an issue I was looking at. I could have done all that with a single screen session, but the flexibility of dividing my my display space to be able to see lots of things at once is a big win for me. -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
