Split Terminals - allow to select terminal like --select-tab in CLI

[xurei]

This is related to issue #1645

--split-vertical and --split-horizontal are really nice ! But it feels to me that a select terminal feature is missing.

Typically, if you want to make a 2x2 grid, you can't right now because the first terminal cannot be selected. Hence you can only split it vertically or horizontally, but not both.

Proposal:

 guake --select-tab N --select-terminal M

Where M would be an auto-incremented value, very much like the tabs work.

I don't know how complicated it would be to implement, but it would make complex startup-scripts more powerful.

Example for a 2x2 grid :

# Main terminal has index 0
guake --split-horizontally # Right terminal has index 1
guake --split-vertically # Bottom-Right terminal has index 2, Top-Right keeps index 1
guake --select-terminal 0 # Back to left terminal
guake --split-vertically # Bottom-Left terminal has index 3, Top-Left keeps index 0

We end up with this layout:

|---|---|
| 0 | 1 |
|---|---|
| 3 | 2 |
|---|---|

[VesterDe]

Thanks for making this!

I'm wondering now, how it would be possible to make a setup script for this 2x2 grid situation?

Let's say I want to run 4 separate commands in those 4 boxes, like vagrant up in one, ssh in another, tail -f in a third etc...

Ideally, I'd write a .sh file for that, but that .sh file will of course execute all commands in the same terminal, regardless of guake focus.

[VesterDe]

Ah, I quickly answered my own question.

The -e param works for this.

guake --split-horizontal -e "vagrant up --provision && vagrant ssh"
guake --select-terminal 0
guake --split-vertical -e "cd frontend && npm run serve"

If anyone needs an example.

[xurei]

I believe this issue can be closed now.