<liclass="toctree-l2"><aclass="reference internal"href="gettingstarted.html#changing-the-current-layout">Changing the current layout</a><ul>
<liclass="toctree-l3"><aclass="reference internal"href="gettingstarted.html#using-the-splitters">Using the splitters</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l3"><aclass="reference internal"href="gettingstarted.html#dragging-and-dropping-a-terminal">Dragging and dropping a terminal</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l3"><aclass="reference internal"href="gettingstarted.html#using-the-keyboard">Using the keyboard</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<liclass="toctree-l2"><aclass="reference internal"href="gettingstarted.html#resetting-the-terminal">Resetting the terminal</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l2"><aclass="reference internal"href="gettingstarted.html#the-scrollbar-and-scrollback-buffer">The scrollbar and scrollback buffer</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l2"><aclass="reference internal"href="gettingstarted.html#search-the-buffer">Search the buffer</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l2"><aclass="reference internal"href="gettingstarted.html#zooming-the-terminal">Zooming the terminal</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l2"><aclass="reference internal"href="faq.html#how-do-i">How do I...</a><ul>
<liclass="toctree-l3"><aclass="reference internal"href="faq.html#make-terminator-work-like-quake-style-terminals">...make Terminator work like Quake style terminals?</a></li>
<p>A quick glance at the menu again will show that the only change is
the addition of the <em>Epsilon</em> group to the list.</p>
<p>To change a group name you can either click on <em>New group...</em> again,
or <codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">Shift</span></code>+<codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">click</span></code> on the 3-box/group button, and the editable
field will reappear.</p>
<p>The current terminal is the one with focus. By clicking with key
modifiers on other terminals 3-box/group button we can speed up group
organisation. Here’s a list of mouse actions (including some already
<tr><tdclass="label">[1]</td><td><em>(<aclass="fn-backref"href="#id1">1</a>, <aclass="fn-backref"href="#id2">2</a>)</em> These shortcuts will only work if you use them on terminals
that are <em>not</em> the current terminal.</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<divclass="admonition warning">
<pclass="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<pclass="last">The terminals with no named group are also considered a
group. If you use one of the <codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">Super</span></code> shortcuts on a
terminal with no group, you will also include all the
other terminals with no group.</p>
</div>
<p>Skipping slightly ahead in the menu, there are two options that make
more sense covered here. The <strong>Split to this group</strong> (default: off)
option means that when you split the current terminal, the new one
will inherit the group of the current terminal. It is off by default
in which case new terminals have no group.</p>
<p>The second option <strong>Autoclean groups</strong> (default: on) will remove a
group from the menus group list when the last terminal with that
group is closed. If off groups will remain in the list until the
application exits, or the option is enabled.</p>
<divclass="admonition note">
<pclass="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<pclass="last">Not shown in the above screenshots, there are also menu
items for grouping all terminals in a tab in the menu. They
only appear once a new tab is created - <strong>Group all in tab</strong>
and <strong>Ungroup all in tab</strong>.</p>
</div>
<p>Some final group related shortcuts are for grouping all terminals
at once, or grouping terminals in the same tab.</p>
<h2>Broadcasting input to multiple terminals<aclass="headerlink"href="#broadcasting-input-to-multiple-terminals"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>So first let me describe some terminology (no pun intended).
<strong>Broadcasting</strong> is the act of sending your input to multiple
terminals. The current terminal (the one with the red titlebar by
default) is always the <strong>broadcaster</strong>. Any terminal that is in
the same group as the current terminal is a potential <strong>receiver</strong>.
I say potential because the act of broadcasting can be turned on
and off independently of the grouping.</p>
<p>This can be an invaluable time-saver when having to do active
investigation across multiple machines where you would be repeating
the same commands on each of them.</p>
<p>Terminator’s titlebar is colour-coded to help you quickly see which
terminals are potential receivers, and whether they <em>will</em> receive
the broadcast input.</p>
<p>The titlebar is split into two parts. The leftmost part is the
3-box/group button that has one of three background colours as defined
in the <aclass="reference internal"href="preferences.html#prefs-global"><span>Global</span></a> tab of <aclass="reference internal"href="preferences.html#preferences"><span>Preferences Window</span></a>:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><em>Red</em> - The current terminal and broadcaster.</li>
<li><em>Blue</em> - A terminal that is in the same group as the broadcaster.</li>
<li><em>Grey</em> - A terminal in a different group, or no group.</li>
</ul>
<p>The second part consists of the title, and uses the same colouring
to show the following:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><em>Red</em> - The current terminal and broadcaster.</li>
<li><em>Blue</em> - A terminal that is acting as a receiver and will duplicate
input from the broadcaster.</li>
<li><em>Grey</em> - A terminal that is not a receiver.</li>
</ul>
<p>There are three settings for broadcasting, selected from the <em>Group
menu</em>. Following are an image of each of these modes, with <codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">test</span></code>
<p>It has become apparent that IBus causes problems with
broadcast input. When multiple keystrokes are used to
<em>compose</em> a letter, such as the <codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">AltGr</span></code>+<codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">[</span></code>
followed by <codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">a</span></code>, <codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">o</span></code>, <codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">u</span></code> keys to get <strong>ä</strong>,
<strong>ö</strong>, <strong>ü</strong> characters for the German language.</p>
<p>Instead of getting your composed letter in all receivers,
you will only get the composed letter in the current
terminal. If you copy and paste the character into the
current terminal then it will be input into the
receivers.</p>
<pclass="last">You may not even realise that you are running IBus.
Killing it will temporarily fix the problem. There is
a fix for IBus and VTE, but only in the newer builds of
VTE. For that we would need the experimental GTK3
version of Terminator.</p>
</div>
</div>
<divclass="section"id="insert-terminal-number">
<h2>Insert terminal number<aclass="headerlink"href="#insert-terminal-number"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The last two menu items are slightly out of place here. They are the
same function as the shortcuts mentioned <aclass="reference internal"href="gettingstarted.html#insert-termnum-shortcut"><span>here</span></a>.
They were added early on when the broadcast feature was added, and
the argument could be made for removing them. So far no-one has
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