This fork of terminator is mostly just a beta test of the tmux support for others to be able to play with and try out. There are likely to be a very large number of bugs that range from annoying to showstopping.
Things to know:
You can start tmux with terminator --tmux-new <session> or terminator --tmux-attach <session> to create or attach to a local tmux session. --tmux-attach will also auto-select a session in the same maner as a normal tmux attach. This has howewver only been given basic testing so far.
More importantly, you can also use terminator normally, ssh into a remote host, and then run tmux -C or tmux -C attach inside the terminal, and terminator will automatically detect this and connect to the session. You can optionally enable auto-minimize for these attached tmux control windows with a checkbox in the preferences -> global section.
You should also set the global option "Unfocused terminal background color" to 90-95% to make it more visible which active pane you're looking at in tmux.
Title bars and scroll bars are automatically switched into overlays when in tmux mode, and checkboxes to enable the same mode for non-tmux mode is avalible in the profile settings under the relevent tabs. The reason for this change is that tmux mode works best when everything falls nicely on a a character grid. This is probably a solvable problem down the road, but the added complexity of allowing variable width window chrome was more than I wanted to deal with at the moment.
Window sizes should nicely follow tmux server direction, so you can use the normal tmux commands as you would expect. but there may still be bugs here or there. If you do find something broken that hasn't been reported already, feel free to make a ticket and preferably include the --debug output from a short session showing the problem occuring.
Enjoy!
-Ken Sanislo
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Started by Chris Jones cmsj@tenshu.net in 2007, maintained from 2014 to 2020 by Stephen Boddy, currently maintained by Matt Rose. Terminator has had contributions from countless others listed in the AUTHORS file.
Terminator was originally developed by Chris Jones in 2007 as a simple, 300-ish line python script. Since then, it has become The Robot Future of Terminals. Originally inspired by projects like quadkonsole and gnome-multi-term and more recently by projects like Iterm2, and Tilix, It lets you combine and recombine terminals to suit the style you like. If you live at the command-line, or are logged into 10 different remote machines at once, you should definitely try out Terminator.
When you run Terminator, you will get a terminal in a window, just like almost
every other terminal emulator available. There is also a titlebar which will
update as shells/programs inside the terminal tell it to. Also on the titlebar
is a small button that opens the grouping menu. From here you can put terminals
into groups, which allows you to control multiple terminals simultaneously.
In April of 2020 we started moving Terminator to GitHub. A new team wanted to continue the work of the original authors.
You can find the project on https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator
Terminator is available for most (if not all) Linux distributions from the distribution's repository of binary packages. It is also available on FreeBSD. Please search your repository for terminator If you want to find information on how to enable an updated package repository for your OS, build from source, or want to run the bleeding-edge master version, you can follow the instructions in INSTALL.md
Create more terminals by:
- horizontal split:
Ctrl-Shift-o - vertical split:
Ctrl-Shift-e
Shift focus to:
- next terminal:
Ctrl-Shift-n - previous terminal:
Ctrl-Shift-p
New tab: Ctrl-Shift-t
New window: Ctrl-Shift-i
Close terminal or tab:
Ctrl-Shift-w- or right mouse click -> Close
Close window with all it's terminals and tabs: Ctrl-Shift-q
Reset zoom: Ctrl-0
Terminator Preferences menu:
- right mouse click -> Preferences
These and more modifiable shortcuts in:
- right mouse click -> Preferences -> Keybindings tab
Web Documentation:
- press
F1or at https://gnome-terminator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
More info about shortcuts and cli config in man pages:
man terminatorman terminator_config
Any help is welcome with the Terminator project.
- Open issues for bugs or enhancements
- Join our chat room on gitter.im for general questions
- Help translating Terminator
You can find old bugs and questions in the launchpad project, but please don't post anything new there.
Terminator began by shamelessly copying code from the vte-demo.py in the vte widget package, and the gedit terminal plugin (which was fantastically useful at figuring out vte's API).
vte-demo.py was not my code and is copyright its original author. While it does not contain any specific licensing information in it, the VTE package appears to be licenced under LGPL v2.
The original version 0.1 release of Terminator was on Saturday, 28 July 2007. Here is the archived Terminator 0.1 release announcement
The gedit terminal plugin is part of the gedit-plugins package, which is licenced under GPL v2 or later.
I am thus licensing Terminator as GPL v2 only.
Cristian Grada provided the old icon under the same licence. Cory Kontros provided the new icon under the CC-by-SA licence. For other authorship information, see debian/copyright