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July 3rd, 2009, 11:36 pm

is it possible to split/divide CLI terminal into two parts so that i can do two different works without switching to other tty, and i can see those two windows simultaneously.

[UPSGuy]

July 4th, 2009, 4:48 am

If you have 'screen' installed, then you should be able to do that using Ctrl+a S. Have a look here for more shortcut keys.

July 6th, 2009, 6:22 am

If you are just running a terminal windows within a gui, just open two windows. Or if you are in a full text environment, on some distros like redhat and fedora and I believe centos, by hitting Ctrl+alt+F1 (or F2 or F3.....) will take you to a different terminal.

July 7th, 2009, 11:54 pm

kc0tma wrote:

If you are just running a terminal windows within a gui, just open two windows. Or if you are in a full text environment, on some distros like redhat and fedora and I believe centos, by hitting Ctrl+alt+F1 (or F2 or F3.....) will take you to a different terminal.

but i dont want this, i want to divide the same conosle (fully text environment) into two or more so that i dont hv to swicth other terminals...........

[UPSGuy]

July 8th, 2009, 5:00 am

So I take it you're not using the screen application, then?

July 8th, 2009, 5:29 am

just open a file and then use this command ":split <new file name>". This will open the second file.

July 8th, 2009, 6:42 am

So let me get this straight. You have one monitor, and you want to see both terminals simultaneously on the same screen? Almost like the left half being tty1 and the right half being tty2, right?

July 27th, 2009, 6:52 am

Use screen.

Also, you can use a customized .screenrc to make the server administration process much more comfortable.