Linux Tip: Split Console Screen on Widescreen Laptop / PCs with “screen” and “terminator”

Current Laptops / PCs uses 16:9 Widescreen Displays and if you dont want to use Xorg (Gnome,unity,Openbox Desktops)

you can use on Linux Console the program called “screen” it offers:

– Split Consoles horizontally and vertically
– disconnect the screen and let the scripts/commands active on remote Systems
– reconnect if the remote Session was broken cause network problems

On Gnome or unity you can use “terminator”

screen-tiled

see:

– manpage of screen
– http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7453/how-to-split-the-terminal-into-more-than-one-view