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Terminator
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by Chris Jones <cmsj@tenshu.net> and others.
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## Description
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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.
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When you run **`Terminator`**, you will get a terminal in a window, just like almost
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every other terminal emulator available. There is also a titlebar which will
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update as shells/programs inside the terminal tell it to. Also on the titlebar
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is a small button that opens the grouping menu. From here you can put terminals
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into groups, which allows you to control multiple terminals simultaneously.
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## New home on GitHub
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In April of 2020 we started moving **`Terminator`** to GitHub. A new team wanted to continue the work of the original authors.
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You can find the project on https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator
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## Installing
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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](https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator/blob/master/INSTALL.md)
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#### Quick Start:
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Create more terminals by:
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- horizontal split: `Ctrl-Shift-o`
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- vertical split: `Ctrl-Shift-e`
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Shift focus to:
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- next terminal: `Ctrl-Shift-n`
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- previous terminal: `Ctrl-Shift-p`
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New tab: `Ctrl-Shift-t`
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New window: `Ctrl-Shift-i`
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Close terminal or tab:
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- `Ctrl-Shift-w`
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- or right mouse click -> Close
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Close window with all it's terminals and tabs: `Ctrl-Shift-q`
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Reset zoom: `Ctrl-0`
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Terminator Preferences menu:
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- right mouse click -> Preferences
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These and more modifiable shortcuts in:
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- right mouse click -> Preferences -> Keybindings tab
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Web Documentation:
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- press `F1` or at https://gnome-terminator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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More info about shortcuts and cli config in man pages:
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- `man terminator`
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- `man terminator_config`
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## Contributing
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Any help is welcome with the Terminator project.
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* [Open issues for bugs or enhancements](https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator/issues/new)
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* [Join our chat room on gitter.im for general questions](https://gitter.im/gnome-terminator/community)
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You can find old bugs and questions in the launchpad project, but please don't post anything new there.
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* https://answers.launchpad.net/terminator
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* https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator
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## Origins
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Terminator began by shamelessly copying code from the vte-demo.py in the vte
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widget package, and the gedit terminal plugin (which was fantastically
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useful at figuring out vte's API).
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vte-demo.py was not my code and is copyright its original author. While it
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does not contain any specific licensing information in it, the VTE package
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appears to be licenced under LGPL v2.
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## Licensing
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The gedit terminal plugin is part of the gedit-plugins package, which is
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licenced under GPL v2 or later.
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I am thus licensing Terminator as GPL v2 only.
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Cristian Grada provided the old icon under the same licence.
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Cory Kontros provided the new icon under the CC-by-SA licence.
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For other authorship information, see debian/copyright
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