On 12 July 2012 18:24, Imran Chaudhry <ichaudhry@???> 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 will be running vim, the rest will be normal shell
> or ssh sessions.
>
> What I am after is some way to intelligently group them on the gnome-panel
> or elsewhere. Maybe colour code them by "group" or purpose so I can quickly
> access each one by sight. Right now the way I "group" them in the lower
> gnome-panel is by manually keeping the vim terms on the right and others on
> the left with gedit and Chrome between them as a "buffer". There must be a
> better way to address this?
>
> Can these help? I've earmarked a few desktop management tools that might
> help but not got around to looking at them in any depth:
> http://do.davebsd.com/ http://wiki.awn-project.org/
>
I would try to approach the problem from another angle.
I used to have 10 terminal windows open at once, but as the project
got more complex, it even reached over 100, and it because obviously
unmanageable.
I then moved to using proper management tools, which worked very well.
I did the same with writing software. I modified the layout of the
files into areas, so that I would only need a few files open at once
to do almost any required task on the code.
Now days, IDEs are actually quite good.
I still use vim a lot, but use eclipse for some tasks.
Kind Regards
James
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