.TH "TERMINATOR_CONFIG" "5" "Feb 22, 2008" "Nicolas Valcarcel " "" .SH "NAME" ~/.config/terminator/config \- the config file for Terminator terminal emulator. .SH "DESCRIPTION" This manual page documents briefly the .B Terminator config file. .PP \fBterminator/config\fP is an optional file to configure the terminator terminal emulator. It is used to control options not in gnome-terminal gconf profiles, or override gconf settings. .SH "FILE LOCATION" Normally the config file will be ~/.config/terminator/config, but it may be overridden with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (in which case it will be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/terminator/config) .SH "FILE FORMAT" This is what a Terminator config file should look like: # This is a comment font = Fixed 10 background_color = #000000 foreground_color = "#FFFFFF" #Another comment. Quotes can be used for any value scrollback_lines = '500' #More comment. Single quotes are valid too cursor_blink = True custom_command = "echo \\"foo#bar\\"" #Final comment - this will work as expected. [keybindings] full_screen = F11 .SH "OPTIONS" These are the options Terminator currently supports: .TP .B allow_bold\fR (boolean) If true, allow applications in the terminal to make text boldface. Default value: \fBTrue\fR .TP .B enable_real_transparency\fR (boolean) If true, Terminator will try to use real transparency if possible. Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP \fBNOTE:\fR To enable transparency you should also see the \fBbackground_type\fR and \fBbackground_darkness\fR settings below. .TP .B silent_bell\fR (boolean) If true, don't make a noise when applications send the escape sequence for the terminal bell. Flash the terminal instead. Default value: \fBTrue\fR .TP .B force_no_bell\fR (boolean) If true, don't make a noise or flash. All terminal bells will be ignored. Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B use_theme_colors If true, ignore the configured colours and use values from the theme instead. Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B background_color Default colour of terminal background, as a colour specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name such as "red"). \fBNote:\fR You may need to set \fBuse_theme_colors=False\fR to force this setting to take effect. Default value: \fB#000000\fR .TP .B background_darkness A value between 0.0 and 1.0 indicating how much to darken the background image. 0.0 means no darkness, 1.0 means fully dark. If the terminal is set to transparent, this setting controls how transparent it is. 0.0 means fully transparent, 1.0 means fully opaque. Default value: \fB0.5\fR .TP .B background_type Type of terminal background. May be "solid" for a solid colour, "image" for an image, or "transparent" for full transparency in compositing window managers, otherwise pseudo transparency. Default value: \fBsolid\fR .TP .B background_image Path to an image file to be used for the background of terminals. Default value: Nothing .TP .B backspace_binding Sets what code the backspace key generates. Possible values are "ascii-del" for the ASCII DEL character, "control-h" for Control-H (AKA the ASCII BS character), "escape-sequence" for the escape sequence typically bound to backspace or delete. "ascii-del" is normally considered the correct setting for the Backspace key. Default value: \fBascii\-del\fR .TP .B delete_binding Sets what code the delete key generates. Possible values are "ascii-del" for the ASCII DEL character, "control-h" for Control-H (AKA the ASCII BS character), "escape-sequence" for the escape sequence typically bound to backspace or delete. "escape-sequence" is normally considered the correct setting for the Delete key. Default value: \fBescape\-sequence\fR .TP .B cursor_blink \fR(boolean) Controls if the cursor blinks. Default value: \fBTrue\fR .TP .B emulation Sets what type of terminal should be emulated. Default value: \fBxterm\fR .TP .B font An Pango font name. Examples are "Sans 12" or "Monospace Bold 14". Default value: \fBMono 8\fR .TP .B foreground_color Default colour of text in the terminal, as a colour specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name such as "red"). \fBNote:\fR You may need to set \fBuse_theme_colors=False\fR to force this setting to take effect. Default value: \fB#AAAAAA\fR .TP .B scrollbar_position Where to put the terminal scrollbar. Possibilities are "left", "right", and "disabled". Default value: \fBright\fR .TP .B titlebars If true, a titlebar will be drawn for each terminal which shows the current title of that terminal. Default value: \fBTrue\fR .TP .B titletips If true, a tooltip will be available for each terminal which shows the current title of that terminal. Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B scroll_background \fR(boolean) If true, scroll the background image with the foreground text; if false, keep the image in a fixed position and scroll the text above it. Default value: \fBTrue\fR .TP .B scroll_on_keystroke \fR(boolean) If true, pressing a key jumps the scrollbar to the bottom. Default value: \fBTrue\fR .TP .B scroll_on_output \fR(boolean) If true, whenever there's new output the terminal will scroll to the bottom. Default value: \fBTrue\fR .TP .B scrollback_lines Number of scrollback lines to keep around. You can scroll back in the terminal by this number of lines; lines that don't fit in the scrollback are discarded. Be careful with this setting; it's the primary factor in determining how much memory the terminal will use. Default value: \fB500\fR .TP .B focus Sets what type of mouse events should determine terminal focus. Can be "sloppy" or "click". "mouse" is also interpreted as "sloppy". Default value: \fBclick\fR .TP .B focus_on_close Sets which terminal should get the focus when another terminal is closed. Values can be "prev", "next" or "auto". Using "auto", if the closed terminal is within a splitted window, the focus will be on the sibling terminal rather than another tab. Default value: \fBauto\fR .TP .B exit_action Possible values are "close" to close the terminal, and "restart" to restart the command. Default value: \fBclose\fR .TP .B palette Terminals have a 16-colour palette that applications inside the terminal can use. This is that palette, in the form of a colon-separated list of colour names. Colour names should be in hex format e.g. "#FF00FF". Default value: \fB#000000000000:#CDCD00000000:#0000CDCD0000:#CDCDCDCD0000:#30BF30BFA38E:#A53C212FA53C:#0000CDCDCDCD:#FAFAEBEBD7D7:#404040404040:#FFFF00000000:#0000FFFF0000:#FFFFFFFF0000:#00000000FFFF:#FFFF0000FFFF:#0000FFFFFFFF:#FFFFFFFFFFFF\fR .TP .B word_chars When selecting text by word, sequences of these characters are considered single words. Ranges can be given as "A-Z". Literal hyphen (not expressing a range) should be the first character given. Default value: \fB\-A\-Za\-z0\-9,./?%&#:_\fR .TP .B mouse_autohide \fR(boolean) Controls whether the mouse cursor should be hidden while typing. Default value: \fBTrue\fR .TP .B use_custom_command \fR(boolean) If True, the value of \fBcustom_command\fR will be used instead of the default shell. Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B custom_command Command to execute instead of the default shell, if \fBuse_custom_command\fR is set to True. Default value: Nothing .TP .B http_proxy URL of an HTTP proxy to use, e.g. http://proxy.lan:3128/ Default value: Nothing .TP .B encoding Character set to use for the terminal. Default value: \fBUTF-8\fR .TP .B fullscreen \fR(boolean) Controls whether the Terminator window will be started in fullscreen mode Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B maximise \fR(boolean) Controls whether the Terminator window will be started maximised Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B borderless \fR(boolean) Controls whether the Terminator window will be started without window borders Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B hidden \fR(boolean) Hides the Terminator window by default. Its visibility can be toggled with the \fBquake\fR keybinding (Ctrl-Shift-Alt-a by default) Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B handle_size Controls the width of the separator between terminals. Anything outside the range 0-5 (inclusive) will be ignored and use your default theme value. Default value: \fB-1\fR .TP .B f11_modifier \fR(boolean) DEPRECATED. This option will disappear by 1.0. See \fB[keybindings]\fR instead. If this is set to True, the fullscreen keyboard shortcut changes from F11 (like many GNOME apps) to Ctrl-Shift-F11 (useful if you use terminal applications which expect to receive F11. Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B cycle_term_tab \fR(boolean) If this is set to True, when switching to the next/previous term, Terminator will cycle within the same tab. Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown can then be used to move from one tab to the other one. Default value: \fBTrue\fR .TP .B close_button_on_tab \fR(boolean) If set to True, tabs will have a close button on them. Default value: \fBTrue\fR .TP .B tab_position Defines where tabs are placed. Can be any of: top, left, right, bottom. Default value: \fBtop\fR .TP .B extreme_tabs \fB(boolean)\fR If set to True, tabs can be created within other tabs. Be warned that this can be very confusing and hard to use. Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B copy_on_selection \fR(boolean) If set to True, text selections will be automatically copied to the clipboard, in addition to being made the Primary selection. Default value: \fBFalse\fR .TP .B try_posix_regexp \fB(boolean)\fR If set to True, URL matching regexps will try to use POSIX style first, and fall back on GNU style on failure. If you are on Linux but URL matches don't work, try setting this to True. If you are not on Linux, but you get VTE warnings on startup saying "Error compiling regular expression", set this to False to silence them (they are otherwise harmless). Default value: \fBFalse\fR on Linux, \fBTrue\fR otherwise. .SH "KEYBINDINGS" The following actions can have their keyboard shortcut configured in the config file in a section labelled \fB[keybindings]\fR: .TP .B zoom_in Make font one unit larger. Default value: \fBplus\fR .TP .B zoom_out Make font one unit smaller. Default value: \fBminus\fR .TP .B zoom_normal Return font to pre-configured size. Default value: \fB0\fR .TP .B new_tab Open a new tab. Default value: \fBT\fR .TP .B new_root_tab Open a new tab at the root of the window (only useful if you use the \fBextreme_tabs\fR option). Default value: \fBT\fR .TP .B go_next Move cursor focus to the next tab. Default values: \fBN\fR and \fBTab\fR .TP .B go_prev Move cursor focus to the previous tab. Default values: \fBP\fR and \fBTab\fR .TP .B go_up Move cursor focus to the terminal above. Default value: \fBUp\fR .TP .B go_down Move cursor focus to the terminal below. Default value: \fBDown\fR .TP .B go_left Move cursor focus to the terminal to the left. Default value: \fBLeft\fR .TP .B go_right Move cursor focus to the terminal to the right. Default value: \fBRight\fR .TP .B split_horiz Split the current terminal horizontally. Default value: \fBO\fR .TP .B split_vert Split the current terminal vertically. Default value: \fBE\fR .TP .B close_term Close the current terminal. Default value: \fBW\fR .TP .B copy Copy the currently selected text to the clipboard. Default value: \fBC\fR .TP .B paste Paste the current contents of the clipboard. Default value: \fBV\fR .TP .B toggle_scrollbar Show/Hide the scrollbar. Default value: \fBS\fR .TP .B search Search for text in the terminal scrollback history. Default value: \fBF\fR .TP .B close_window Quit Terminator. Default value: \fBQ\fR .TP .B resize_up Move the parent dragbar upwards. Default value: \fBUp\fR .TP .B resize_down Move the parent dragbar downwards. Default value: \fBDown\fR .TP .B resize_left Move the parent dragbar left. Default value: \fBLeft\fR .TP .B resize_right Move the parent dragbar right. Default value: \fBRight\fR .TP .B move_tab_right Swap the current tab with the one to its right. Default value: \fBPage_Down\fR .TP .B move_tab_left Swap the current tab with the one to its left. Default value: \fBPage_Up\fR .TP .B toggle_zoom Zoom/Unzoom the current terminal to fill the window. Default value: \fBX\fR .TP .B scaled_zoom Zoom/Unzoom the current terminal to fill the window, and scale its font. Default value: \fBZ\fR .TP .B next_tab Move to the next tab. Default value: \fBPage_Down\fR .TP .B prev_tab Move to the previous tab. Default value: \fBPage_Up\fR .TP .B full_screen Toggle the window to a fullscreen window. Default value: \fBF11\fR .TP .B reset Reset the terminal state. Default value: \fBR\fR .TP .B reset_clear Reset the terminal state and clear the terminal window. Default value: \fBG\fR .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR gnome\-terminal(1)