You can use the screen
or tmux
programs on the CentOS servers to do this.
For example - for screen -
After you login, you run screen
(you may have to install it)
Then hit CTRL a
and then CTRL |
<-- that's a pipe
This will split the screen into 2
Then hit CTRL a
and then CTRL tab
to switch to the new section
Then hit CTRL a
and then CTRL c
to create a new session in the new section.
The end result should be sessions side by side
Reference - http://www.pixelbeat.org/lkdb/screen.html (screen hotkeys)
Alternatively, on your Ubuntu desktop, you could get a terminal program that can do screen splits. Terminator
is one such terminal program, and you can split a screen by simply hitting CTRL+Shift+e