Is there any multiple terminal emulator for Mac OS?

I love the command line and I would like to see an app like Terminator (for Linux) in my MacOs:

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It seems there are ports of that app for Mac available using Fink or Ports. But I found it's a hell to install them... it depends on a lot of things which depends on other things which... etc.

So I've been wondering if there's a MacOS native app like that (free or not)...


iTerm 2 claims to be able to do this.


Edit: I just downloaded it, and it seems to work well enough that I think I'll switch from iTerm 1:

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I'm not sure what's going on with you and macports, but I just installed tmux using macports. it took about 30 seconds, and was completely painless.


FWIW, I've subsequently spent enough time with GNU screen that I basically just use it for everything at this point. iTerm is nice if you want a local, mouse-driven multiplexer, but almost everything I do is server-side at this point, and doing it all over one SSH connection is much better anyways.


Terminator was just ported to Mac OS X via the homebrew package Manager.

brew install terminator

See the PR or the recipe.

Tested on OS X 10.9.2 the main functionalities work.


Install GNU Screen, or TMUX via macports/homebrew or by compiling it by hand.


I'm a big fan of SizeUp which lets you tile windows using keyboard commands. This doesn't put different views in one terminal, but it does let me easily have a bunch of views open at once and organized neatly.


I think iTerm 2 and TotalTerminal are all great tools to improve the efficiency when working on terminal and command lines.