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geckon
geckon

Reputation: 8754

How to detach a terminal pane to a new window?

Is it possible to detach one of the terminal panes (split windows, not tabs) in terminator and move it to a new window? I know there is a workaround (see the answers below) but I'm looking for a better (more user-friendly) solution.

Upvotes: 17

Views: 10602

Answers (3)

Organic Advocate
Organic Advocate

Reputation: 919

In addition to the correct solution mentioned by @geckon, I found a workaround to get this workaround to work for tabs (as opposed to panes which is the main topic) by just creating an extra pane and apply @geckon solution.

Here are the steps:

  • create a pane in the tab you want to move. Now you have two panes, one you want to move and the other is extra
  • create a tab in the window you want to move to
  • move the desired pane (not the tab) to the new window's tab, then exit the extra panes if you want.

I know, a bit of a "pane" in the neck! I hope they add it as a feature. Great product though!

Upvotes: 0

user10713413
user10713413

Reputation: 1

Create a new terminal tab, click on the 'tab' tab on the menu bar, select detach tab

Upvotes: -1

geckon
geckon

Reputation: 8754

There is a workaround:

  1. Press Ctrl + Shift + i to open a new window. You need to open it like this, the workaround doesn't work if you start a new terminator process.
  2. Then you can move terminal panes from one window to another using drag & drop so you can move the pane you want to detach to the new window.
  3. Now you have two panes in the new window - one started with the window and one you moved there. Just close the original pane and you have only the pane you originally wanted to detach to a new window.

But I'm hoping for a better way.

Upvotes: 25

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