Split terminal functionnality

[LaMs]

Yakuake and Terminator have this particular functionnality. I was using Yakuake when I was developing on KDE but now that I'm running on gnome I'm using Guake. Guake is perfect for me at the exception of this little functionality. Example of what I'm talking:  http://www.kde-apps.org/content/preview.php?preview=2&id=29153&file1=29153-1.png&file2=29153-2.png&file3=29153-3.png&name=Yakuake  http://www.64bitjungle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/screenshot-terminator.png

Having this in a drop down console like Guake would be very useful for an embedded developer addict to Vim like me.

[lincoln]

humm, first of all, do you know the gnu screen? Maybe it can help you manage more terminals and split them. I think you should give it a try =D

[LaMs]

Yes I know screen... and no its not the same feeling. A good alternative, but I would prefer an integrated solution.

[Yva]

Would love to see this functionality. Guake is a great tool for monitoring and seeing 2 terminal simultaneously would be great.

[pingou]

From our discussion, the idea is not to split but to divide and thus having {2,3,4...} tabs visible at the same time

[zaoul]

I understand screen can split but I agree it is not the same feel. Especially when it comes to vertical split which screen requires an extra patch. Not that big of a deal but terminator is really nice when working with multiple configuration files for an application. Asterisk for example! In summary I would like to see this implemented.

Thank you, Bryan

[amcl]

Some people may not be satisfied with only 2 vertical windows, so this really seems like a job for a terminal multiplexer. The next release of Screen will support vertical splits, but Tmux and dvtm can already do arbitrary vertical/horizontal splits. Why reinvent the wheel in a less flexible way?

 http://tmux.sourceforge.net/  http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/

[mahmoudimus]

Amcl,

One of the reasons you can't use something like a terminal multiplexer is that sometimes, it might be necessary to copy something from a split screen. When you highlight a selection using a terminal multiplexer, what ends up happening is that you copy the adjacent screen as well.

This becomes very tedious when copying an output that you've run and are requiring to paste it somewhere. It doesn't even need to be an output, it could be just an error message.

tmux && dvtm have this problem, as well as screen.

This is why implementing terminator functionality, or embedding the terminator console in Guake, might be a better solution for others. I might end up doing this myself because it is *SO* useful to get a terminal to be able to split windows, both vertically && horizontally.

[amcl]

Some terminal emulators support rxvt style Alt-leftmouse rectangular selection. I'm not sure if Guake supports rectangular selection, I'm at work at the moment. If it doesn't that would be a good feature. It would solve the problem you describe nicely.

[estragib]

Block select does work in Guake. and this goes a bit beyond a non-bloaty drop-down term. Per amcl's "Why reinvent the wheel in a less flexible way?", I'm deescalating this to minor, pending indignant protests.

[nikom]

It is very unfortunate that this enhancement request has been marked as minor. Split screen is most used (by me) future in Yakuake among being able to increase/decrease size of the terminal. It was blessing for me discovering Yakuake and split screen - Ctrl+Alt+L and i got new session on the same tab. I support this future request and vote for upgrading it to higher priority.

[gimler]

+1 it is a key feature to move from yakuake to guake

[ssrihari]

+1 for more usage of horizontal screen space. Split window or seeing multiple tabs.

[valentt]

I would donate 10$ towards making this feature available. Is there any bounty that would convince developer(s) to incorporate this feature.

Until then I'm using Yakuake. If developer(s) accept this idea of bounty just let me know how to donate my part.

Cheers.

[bpedman]

I would also be willing to donate for this feature. I have been using yakuake for a long time but got tired of always installing a bunch of the KDE libs along with it and wanted a more native feel for gnome/unity(/anything other than kde :) ). I am liking guake and it's working well and fast...but really miss this feature from yakuake.

[bernie]

I would also like this functionality.

Yes, screen and tmux can sort-of provide the functionality we'd like, but they require the learning of a new command set to do simple things, for example scrolling up through output, or selecting which pane has input focus. These functions could be implemented much better with a GUI-aware terminal program which could respond to mouse scroll wheel actions, and could switch input focus with a mouse click.

Tmux, for example, (which I'm currently using) prevents the use of the usual Shift-PageUp? to scroll back through output, and instead I have to type C-b PageUp?, then ']' to exit copy mode. I haven't used other GNU/Linux programs such as Yakuake or Terminator, but I have used iTerm2 on Mac OS X, and compared to that, using a terminal multiplexer such as screen or tmux is almost more annoying than it's worth.

[Dokan]

 https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/71  https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/70