alternative to terminator

[Marco Atzeri]

On 02.02.2021 13:18, Frédéric via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I love to use terminator as terminal because of all the splitting I
> can do + tabs. Unfortunately, it does not work anymore now that
> python3 has become the default.
> I guess that this has been fixed in terminator itself as I'm using it
> on linux where python3 is now the standard. It appears that I have
> version 2.1.0 on fedora 32 and it is 0.98 on cygwin.
> 
> Based on that, here are some questions:
> - is it possible for a standard cygwin user to try to upgrade the
> cygwin package of terminator so that we have a newer version working
> nicely with python3 being the default?

Sure, we always appreciate contributors:
https://cygwin.com/packaging-contributors-guide.html

For what I see on

https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/terminator.html

Terminator is basically orphan and out of sync with upstream

https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator

> - is there any other good alternative with the same kind of
> possibilities of splitting the screen?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> F

Regards
Marco