[zahlman]

I would probably be better off setting up a tiling window manager etc. to have two terminal windows side by side (I've really never liked conventional IDEs), but old habits die hard. In my youth I would just dump a handful of small text editor windows on the screen in random locations, one per currently relevant source code file, and nowadays I still have to fight that urge. (Discovering that gnome-terminal supports tabs definitely helped, though.)