Terminator

Terminator is a terminal emulator with a lot of useful feature (first of all the ability to manage more than one shell in the same window).

The more useful shortcuts are the following:

• Ctrl-shift-E: vertical split
• Ctrl-Shift-O: horizontal split
• Ctrl-Shift-P: go on the previous view.
• Ctrl-Shift-N: go on the next view
• Ctrl-Shift-W: close current view
• Ctrl-Shift-Q: exit terminator.
• Ctrl-Shift-X: enlarge current window

To install terminator type in a shell:

sudo apt-get install terminator