Re: [Hampshire] Management of multiple gnome-terminal windows?

2012-07-13 Thread john lewis
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:29:00 +0100 Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: Another idea could be to use virtual desktops with one desktop for each terminal group. using virtual desktops is dead easy with gnome 2 or gnome classic but I found it confusing in gnome 3 with its floating

Re: [Hampshire] Management of multiple gnome-terminal windows?

2012-07-13 Thread Anthony
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[Hampshire] Management of multiple gnome-terminal windows?

2012-07-12 Thread Imran Chaudhry
So there's a fair few coders and sysadmins among us here. What do you do to manage multiple terminal windows open on a Gnome desktop? I use Debian Squeeze with Gnome 2.x and often have ~10 gnome-terminal windows open. About half will be running vim, the rest will be normal shell or ssh sessions.

Re: [Hampshire] Management of multiple gnome-terminal windows?

2012-07-12 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:24:13 +0100, ichaud...@gmail.com said: What do you do to manage multiple terminal windows open on a Gnome desktop? This doesn't answer all of your questions, but I use 'konsole', which I find more capable that Gnome terminal, and I simply use multiple tabs within it. --

Re: [Hampshire] Management of multiple gnome-terminal windows?

2012-07-12 Thread Tony Whitmore
On 12/07/12 18:24, Imran Chaudhry wrote: So there's a fair few coders and sysadmins among us here. What do you do to manage multiple terminal windows open on a Gnome desktop? I use terminator, which is based on Gnome terminal. It's ace. If I need to, I run multiple terminator sessions to

Re: [Hampshire] Management of multiple gnome-terminal windows?

2012-07-12 Thread Imran Chaudhry
Thanks Tony, I forgot about Terminator and will look again. Another idea could be to use virtual desktops with one desktop for each terminal group. I have a feeling that tiling window managers will also accomplish what I want but this may be overkill for me. I am curious about them though - does

Re: [Hampshire] Management of multiple gnome-terminal windows?

2012-07-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 12 July 2012 18:24, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: So there's a fair few coders and sysadmins among us here. What do you do to manage multiple terminal windows open on a Gnome desktop? I use Debian Squeeze with Gnome 2.x and often have ~10 gnome-terminal windows open. About half

Re: [Hampshire] Management of multiple gnome-terminal windows?

2012-07-12 Thread Samuel Penn
On Thursday 12 July 2012 18:29:27 Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:24:13 +0100, ichaud...@gmail.com said: What do you do to manage multiple terminal windows open on a Gnome desktop? This doesn't answer all of your questions, but I use 'konsole', which I find more capable that

Re: [Hampshire] Management of multiple gnome-terminal windows?

2012-07-12 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 12 July 2012 20:34, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tony, I forgot about Terminator and will look again. Another idea could be to use virtual desktops with one desktop for each terminal group. I have a feeling that tiling window managers will also accomplish what I want