[ale] Terminals within a terminal

[John Wells]

Nope...I don't think screen will do it.  Here's what I mean:

Having a screen that looks like this:

|--------------------------------------|
|$            |$           |$          |
|             |            |           |
|             |            |           |
|             |            |           |
----------------------------------------
|$            |$           |$          |
|             |            |           |
|             |            |           |
|             |            |           |
----------------------------------------

Where each square is a separate shell.  Screen allows you to multiplex
shells to one terminal, but I'm pretty sure you can only view one of the
shells at a time.  In other words, you may have 5 shells running, but only
one of them can be the currently viewed shell.  You have to switch among
them.

I realize I could start up 6 xterms to get this, but keeping them all
contained within one terminal would make it much easier to move around,
etc.

John
Holmquist, Thomas W. said:
> screen is your best bet. by default it does not do exactly what you want,
> but with a .screenrc setup, it may. Even without the .screenrc file,
> screen is an extremly useful tool that everyone should try.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Bob
> Slaughter
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:56 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Terminals within a terminal
>
>
>> Are there any programs out there that allow spawning multiple views of
>> shells within one terminal?
>>
>> What I'm imagining is something like vim's window splitting capability,
>> but instead of splitting into multiple buffers splitting into multiple
>> shells, for log watching, etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>
> man screen, perhaps?
>
>
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