Terminator is a terminal emulator for multiple platforms.
I just have replaced the gnome-terminal with it, as it has really nice and usable features.
My favorite is the possibility to create layouts and with one command I can spawn a new terminal window that is split to separate command areas. I use command prompt a lot: for git, maven, ssh or just for finding files. So it is really nice that for one project I create just one layout with all the necessary command shells that I need usually.
One point that hold me back for a while was that I wanted the separate shell prompts to start from different folders. In the layout menu there is a possibility to specify a startup command for a given terminal. It took me some time to realize though that this command
replaces the terminal. So if there is no command it starts my shell. If a command is given it executes it, but the shell will not be started. So my first trial to write
cd /home/tyufi/tools/jboss
was not enough it must have been extended to
cd /home/tyufi/tools/jboss; bash
Now it works perfectly!
A complete guide can be found here.
