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Terminator and Xournal

4 November 2011 By Avinash Meetoo 15 Comments

A brief post to tell you that I stumbled upon two great open source software yesterday:

Terminator can be used to open multiple Gnome terminals in a grid as shown above. As it also works in full-screen mode, Terminator is great when you have to, say, administer multiple servers at the same time using SSH.

Xournal is, according to its author, a note taking application. But, and this is a wonderful side-effect, it is also a quite formidable PDF annotation tool!

Both can be installed on Fedora using yum and I suppose they are also available in the Ubuntu repositories (even though I’ve not checked) and can be installed with apt-get or aptitude.

Filed Under: Linux, LUGM, Technology

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  1. Jochen Kirstaetter says

    4 November 2011 at 13:33

    Hi Avinash,

    Yup, both applications are available in Ubuntu repositories (at least Oneiric Ocelot):

    jochen@ioslt2:~$ apt-cache search xournal
    xournal – GTK+ Application for note taking
    jochen@ioslt2:~$ apt-cache search terminator
    terminator – multiple GNOME terminals in one window

  2. avinash says

    4 November 2011 at 13:41

    Thanks Jochen. I’ve updated the post accordingly.

  3. Nilesh says

    5 November 2011 at 11:16

    yes and both are available in lucid repos too.

  4. Blip says

    5 November 2011 at 18:38

    Try tmux!! It’s the perfect match for terminator. One terminator window for each remote server and one tmux-session for each terminator window.

  5. avinash says

    6 November 2011 at 20:35

    Thanks!!!

    I’ll give tmux a try. I’m not sure I’ve understood what it does but it looks like being a modern replacement for screen…

  6. selven says

    7 November 2011 at 09:57

    tmux is exactly that, a modern ‘replacement’ for screens :) though … i guess it might be another vi/emacs religious war if we start going into that :D

  7. Shane says

    10 November 2011 at 05:10

    tmux > screen

    I think of it as the tiling window manager that runs in my terminal. Here’s a screenshot: http://www.node.mu/images/tmux.jpg

  8. avinash says

    10 November 2011 at 06:12

    What’s more efficient? Using tmux or Terminator?

  9. avinash says

    10 November 2011 at 07:36

    (I’m replying to myself — must be old age…)

    I’ve removed Terminator and installed tmux to force myself to learn it properly. I’m deep into Ctrl-B nirvana right now :-)

  10. Shane says

    15 November 2011 at 17:01

    Avinash, I find that sysadmin types tend to like Terminator since they usually want to look at things happening in multiple SSH sessions at the same time.

    I’m a developer, and I tend to want to look at multiple things on the same SSH session at the same time. E.g. coding in Vim, tailing web logs and interacting with the git on the command line. So I fullscreen my terminal. I have one SSH session per tab, and a tmux session within each SSH session. A fullscreened app will get its own space on OS X Lion.

    Over time I’ve set up chords around h, j, k, and l for things like moving between OS X spaces, moving between and resizing tmux split windows, moving between and resizing Vim split windows etc. I can get to anywhere using the keyboard only, in a fairly consistent manner.

    Here’s my tmux setup:


    # Convenient way to reload config file.
    bind-key r source-file ~/.tmux.conf

    # We're used to GNU Screen key bindings.
    set-option -g prefix C-a
    unbind-key C-b
    bind-key C-a last-window
    bind-key a send-prefix

    # Start window numbers at 1.
    set-option -g base-index 1

    # Use Vi mode.
    set-window-option -g mode-keys vi
    set-option -g status-keys vi

    # Splitting windows into panes.
    bind v split-window -h
    bind s split-window -v

    # Selecting panes.
    # Following requires tmux 1.2 and above:
    bind h select-pane -L
    bind j select-pane -D
    bind k select-pane -U
    bind l select-pane -R

    # Resizing panes.
    bind-key -r C-h resize-pane -L
    bind-key -r C-j resize-pane -D
    bind-key -r C-k resize-pane -U
    bind-key -r C-l resize-pane -R
    set-option -g repeat-time 700

    # Mouse support.
    setw -g mode-mouse on
    set-option -g mouse-select-pane on

    #setw -g monitor-activity on
    set-window-option -g automatic-rename on
    set-option -g set-titles on
    set-option -g set-titles-string '#H'

    # Customise status bar.
    set-option -g status-bg black
    set-option -g status-fg white
    set-window-option -g window-status-current-bg yellow
    set-window-option -g window-status-current-fg black
    set-window-option -g window-status-current-format ' #I #W '
    set-window-option -g window-status-format ' #I #W '
    set-option -g status-left ' '
    set-option -g status-justify left
    set-option -g status-right ' #[fg=yellow]#T ' # Show terminal title.
    set-option -g status-right-length 150

    # Customise pane border colours.
    set-option -g pane-active-border-fg black
    set-option -g pane-active-border-bg default
    set-option -g pane-border-fg black
    set-option -g pane-border-bg default

  11. avinash says

    15 November 2011 at 20:49

    Thanks a lot Shane for your contribution. I’m sure a lot of people, myself included, will derive a lot of benefits from using (part of) your .tmux.conf file

  12. avinash says

    25 November 2011 at 05:56

    I’ve been using tmux (exclusively) for two weeks now and it’s great. I’ve created a nice .tmux.conf and customised a few things according to my taste.

    Yesterday, I removed tmux from my .bashrc though and reinstalled the graphical terminator just to better compare. And I have to say that I’m not missing a lot of things from tmux…

  13. Shane says

    28 November 2011 at 18:41

    You won’t miss much from tmux if you’re working locally. However, if you work remotely, then being able to detach/reattach sessions is a must.

  14. avinash says

    1 December 2011 at 05:16

    I seldom detach sessions even when remotely administering servers. I am a big family of nohup though…

  15. Karthik Gurusamy says

    9 December 2011 at 10:51

    Any idea on how to map to mean next window/ cycle thru’ window like in screen?
    I tried “bind Space p” — doesn’t seem to work.

    I think space-bar is something too valuable to use for an uncommon (at least to me) like rearranging panes.

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