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As a terminal I use quake it is a drop down terminal that nicely drops down every time I hit F12

It is way easier than opening a terminal/konsole and I can open several sessions with some key combinations. But there is a lot of space in the terminal and I sure would like to split it so that I can work on that config file and se the effect directly in the same window.
And I found a way.....
I installed dvtm -it will be in your repos.
Opened my terminal and typed

Now that does not look so special but here comes a bit of magic:
click CTRL+g an let go! (nothing visible has happened yet)
then click c
Et voila you have a split screen in your terminal - but we are only getting warmed up here....

We want more So we open another pane by repeating the procedure above. Now it looks like this:

You can repeat this as often as you want and each time you will get an extra terminal on the right.

Now this will work on your gnome-terminal or Konsole too but they are inferior to a good drop-down terminal IMO.

If you suddenly get only one window you have double clicked the mouse - so just do it again to get it back. You can use the mouse to go to the different windows or hit CTRL+g and enter the no. of the window (the number is at the top of each pane).

And each pane acts as a completely independent terminal...
Here I have htop, iftop on another computer after having logged in via SSH and newsbeuter running (F11 will maximize guake).

Video coming up,,,,

Nice! Checking for it now (guake my fav terminal for the same reasons)...
It works!

I have been dying for this... there used to be a drop-down terminal that would do this... trying to think of the name. Last I installed it, it didn't any more.

It's baaaaaaaaaacccckk!!! YAY!

Try
in one of the "terminals"

Give me just a bit. I'm having issues getting the "click c" to cooperate.

Edit: NIIIIIIIIIIIICCCE... I had to install links, but well worth it!

Yes and install and start screen too before dvmt...
And if dvmt gives you trouble you can go for tmux it works in a similar way.

Good to know, but it was OK in the end. Came to find out that dvmt wasn't even running. *I think* screen is, but will have to double-check on that.

Here is the video:

KITTEH!!!
Server, local, updates, you got it all in one screen!
Nice!

(I think I like kitteh best though lol)

That is my good old friend Rulle - he is gone now. He was blind the last part of his life but could recognize my steps and always followed them virtually blindly.

They say that senses of people, when they lose one, they gain in others. It's probably true for animals, too. My boxer-shepherd doggie was blind over half her life from a kind of lime disease, yet still walked with me over 3 miles a day, sometimes twice. I had three cats that sometimes would go with us on that walk.

It was just a matter of teaching her new commands so she could go off of curbs, etc., and spending time with her so I could learn how to work with her, too.

She is gone now, too.
The cats also died that same summer.
Haven't owned a pet since. It was too painful to lose them all at (almost) once like that.

Your now-gone kitty is a pretty kitty, and is resting in peace...

Yeah and now Gizmo rules the world:

And if you like dvtm you can try tmux

It is more functional than dvtm but your mouse will probably not work for changing from pane to pane so you will have to get used to CTRL+b and then o to switch between them.
To split the screen you need to
CTRL+b and the % It kind of breaks you fingers but you get used to it - then to split one window again vertially you can do a CTRL+b and "
Now you can to a CTRL+b and t to put a clock in one of the panes....And CTRL+b and ? will give you a list of the key-bindings.

bind-key is the same as CTRL+ b