How to detach a terminal pane to a new window?

Question

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.

Gharry

Answer 1

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.

Gharry

This is a nice workaround to a feature that unfurtunately doesnt exist in terminator yet :( Maybe I should try hack around in the code and get this to work as intended – Antheridium

its not as ideal as dragging the window to where you want it, but at least it's possible. Thanks! – Paraprofessional

@SamMarinelli, what exactly did you do and what happened? – Gharry

When I try to drag a pane from one window to the other, nothing happens. Specifically I click the tab at the top of one window and then drag to the other window and release the mouse, but the other window does not respond. – Roadrunner

@SamMarinelli, wait, are you talking about tab or pane (as in a split window)? This isn't meant for tabs but I just tried this again with panes and it works as expected. – Gharry

Whoops, I see now. I thought "pane" was just the parlance you were using for tabs. – Roadrunner

Yeah, the terminology may be confusing. I will update the original question to make it clearer. – Gharry

Answer 2

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!

Challah

Answer 3

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

Dett

Which terminator version do you use? Please note that the original question was about panes, not tabs. – Gharry