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<span id="advance-usage"></span><h1>Advanced Usage<a class="headerlink" href="#advanced-usage" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p>This is a grab-bag of topics that cover the bits you probably wouldn’t
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use in day-to-day activities.</p>
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<div class="section" id="command-line-options">
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<span id="id1"></span><h2>Command line options<a class="headerlink" href="#command-line-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>Various options can be passed to Terminator at startup time to change
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numerous aspects and behaviour.</p>
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<p>The following option sub-sections can also be seen in the manual page
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for Terminator:</p>
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<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>man terminator
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<div class="admonition note">
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
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<p class="last">I’ve rearranged and grouped the options compared to how they
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would appear using the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-h</span></code> option just to aid clarity.</p>
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<h3>General options<a class="headerlink" href="#general-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-h</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--help</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Show a help message and exit</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-v</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--version</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Display program version</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-g</span> <span class="pre">CONFIG</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--config=CONFIG</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Specify a config file</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--new-tab</span></code></dt>
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<dd>If Terminator is already running, just open a new tab</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-p</span> <span class="pre">PROFILE</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--profile=PROFILE</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Use a different profile as the default</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-u</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--no-dbus</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Disable <a class="reference internal" href="#dbus"><span>DBus</span></a></dd>
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<h3>Window options<a class="headerlink" href="#window-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-m</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--maximise</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Maximise the window</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-f</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--fullscreen</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Make the window fill the screen</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-b</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--borderless</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Disable window borders</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-H</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--hidden</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Hide the window at startup</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--geometry=GEOMETRY</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Set the preferred size and position of the window(see X man page)</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-T</span> <span class="pre">FORCEDTITLE</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--title=FORCEDTITLE</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Specify a title for the window</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-i</span> <span class="pre">FORCEDICON</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--icon=FORCEDICON</span></code></dt>
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<h3>Shell options<a class="headerlink" href="#shell-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-e</span> <span class="pre">COMMAND</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--command=COMMAND</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Specify a command to execute inside the terminal</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-x</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--execute</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Use the rest of the command line as a command to execute inside the
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terminal, and its arguments</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--working-directory=DIR</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Set the working directory</dd>
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</dl>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="layout-options">
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<h3>Layout options<a class="headerlink" href="#layout-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<dl class="docutils">
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-l</span> <span class="pre">LAYOUT</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--layout=LAYOUT</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Launch with the given layout</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-s</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--select-layout</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Select a layout from a list</dd>
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</dl>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="custom-window-manager-options">
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<h3>Custom Window Manager options<a class="headerlink" href="#custom-window-manager-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<p>These settings are for people with heavy customisations to their
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window manager. Some window managers allow various rules to be
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applied, or actions to be taken, depending on how the window
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system perceives the window. These settings facilitate that.</p>
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<dl class="docutils">
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-c</span> <span class="pre">CLASSNAME</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--classname=CLASSNAME</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Set a custom name (WM_CLASS) property on the window</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-r</span> <span class="pre">ROLE</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--role=ROLE</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Set a custom WM_WINDOW_ROLE property on the window</dd>
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</dl>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="debugging-options">
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<span id="command-line-options-debugging"></span><h3>Debugging options<a class="headerlink" href="#debugging-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="#debugging"><span>Debugging</span></a> for more explanation of these options.</p>
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<dl class="docutils">
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-d</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--debug</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Enable debugging information (twice for debug server)</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--debug-classes=DEBUG_CLASSES</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Comma separated list of classes to limit debugging to</dd>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--debug-methods=DEBUG_METHODS</span></code></dt>
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<dd>Comma separated list of methods to limit debugging to</dd>
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</dl>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="the-config-file">
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<span id="config-file"></span><h2>The Config file<a class="headerlink" href="#the-config-file" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>The default configuration file file for Terminator is stored in the
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standard path for configuration files. It can be found at:</p>
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<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>${HOME}/.config/terminator/config
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</pre></div>
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</div>
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<p>It is human readable, and can be edited if you are are careful. This
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is not generally recommended though, and you are, of course, strongly
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advised to make a backup before making manual changes.</p>
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<p>There are many more specific details in the manual page:</p>
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<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>man terminator_config
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</pre></div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="debugging">
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<span id="id2"></span><h2>Debugging<a class="headerlink" href="#debugging" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>There is inbuilt debugging features in Terminator. The simplest is to
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start Terminator from another terminal with the option <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-d</span></code>. This
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will dump many debug statements to the launch terminal.</p>
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<div class="admonition note">
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
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|
<p class="last">If the DBus is active in any other Terminator, then by
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default your attempt to launch with debug will launch
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|
a new window under the already running process. To prevent
|
|
this you can use the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-u</span></code> option which will disable the
|
|
DBus interaction for the debugged instance of Terminator.</p>
|
|
</div>
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<p>There is a lot of output, and a great deal of it will typically not
|
|
be related to the area you are looking into. There are two more
|
|
options that can be passed that limit the amount of debug lines to
|
|
classes or methods of interest. See <a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-options-debugging"><span>Debugging options</span></a>
|
|
for the detail.</p>
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|
<img alt="_images/context_open_debug_tab.png" class="align-right" src="_images/context_open_debug_tab.png" />
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<p>The final facility is to start a debug server by passing <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-dd</span></code> (this
|
|
is the same as <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-d</span> <span class="pre">-d</span></code>) which will start a debug server. With this
|
|
setting a fourth item, <strong>Open Debug Tab</strong>, also appears in the second
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part of the <a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#context-menu"><span>The Context Menu</span></a>, as highlighted in the image to the
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right.</p>
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|
<p>Selecting it will give the following new tab with dedicated debug
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|
terminal:</p>
|
|
<img alt="_images/debug_tab.png" src="_images/debug_tab.png" />
|
|
<p>This prompt is a standard Python interactive prompt, but this is
|
|
connected to the Terminator instance. You can explore the applications
|
|
data structures, classes, etc. and can even call functions and methods.</p>
|
|
<p>Alternatively, instead of launching this tab, you could connect to the
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|
debug server from a different window. This requires that you search
|
|
back through the debug output for the line containing “listening on”.
|
|
Here you will see the port number, and you can simply use:</p>
|
|
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>$ telnet localhost <port>
|
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</pre></div>
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</div>
|
|
<div class="admonition warning">
|
|
<p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
|
|
<p class="last">Whichever method you use the debug output is also dumped
|
|
into this terminal, even though it is already there in
|
|
the launching terminal. This can get rather annoying,
|
|
and seems counter-productive to me, so a way to turn
|
|
off the output in the debug console may be added.</p>
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</div>
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<p>The debug options and their usage are detailed
|
|
<a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-options-debugging"><span>here</span></a>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="dbus">
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<span id="id3"></span><h2>DBus<a class="headerlink" href="#dbus" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>DBus is a standardized form of IPC, or Inter-Process Communication.
|
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More detail about the internals of DBus can be found at the
|
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<a class="reference external" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/">freedesktop.org</a> for DBus.</p>
|
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<p>In Terminator we currently use DBus for two tasks:</p>
|
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<ul>
|
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<li><p class="first">Only run one instance of Terminator</p>
|
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<p>The first instance will create the server. The second instance will
|
|
fail to create the server, so it will request the first instance to
|
|
create a new window (or new tab with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--new-tab</span></code>).</p>
|
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</li>
|
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<li><p class="first">Enable <a class="reference internal" href="#remotinator"><span>Remotinator</span></a></p>
|
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Running a single instance of Terminator will cause problems if you
|
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are trying to launch a <a class="reference internal" href="layouts.html#layouts"><span>layout</span></a>, when an instance is
|
|
already running, so when configuring a program, script or menu item
|
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to launch a layout, you need to remember to include the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-u</span></code> option
|
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that will disable the DBus for that instance. <a class="reference internal" href="layouts.html#layout-launcher"><span>The Layout Launcher</span></a>
|
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does this for you, and as a result any launched layout is running
|
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without DBus, and cannot be controlled with DBus.</p>
|
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<div class="admonition note">
|
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
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<p class="last">There is quite some scope for improving this. I have a vague
|
|
notion of a single master server and multiple instance
|
|
servers, to improve the interaction between DBus and
|
|
layouts.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="remotinator">
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<span id="id4"></span><h2>Remotinator<a class="headerlink" href="#remotinator" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
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<p>Remotinator is a minimal wrapper around making DBus calls, and is
|
|
typically run from <em>within</em> a Terminator terminal. This is not
|
|
strictly necessary, but if not you will have to do some extra work
|
|
to determine the valid UUID of a current terminal and pass it as the
|
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<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TERMINATOR_UUID</span></code> environment variable. Remotinator is called with:</p>
|
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<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>$ remotinator <command>
|
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</pre></div>
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</div>
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<p>The following commands are currently enabled:</p>
|
|
<ul class="simple">
|
|
<li><strong>hsplit</strong> - Split the current terminal horizontally</li>
|
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<li><strong>vsplit</strong> - Split the current terminal vertically</li>
|
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<li><strong>terminals</strong> - Get a list of all terminals</li>
|
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<li><strong>terminal_tab</strong> - Get the UUID of a parent tab</li>
|
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<li><strong>terminal_tab_title</strong> - Get the title of a parent tab</li>
|
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</ul>
|
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<p>Calling Remotinator without a command will print the options to the
|
|
terminal.</p>
|
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<div class="admonition note">
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
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<p class="last">Because a layout (unless launched from the command line as
|
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as the first instance) is normally launched as a separate
|
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instance requiring the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-u</span></code>, Remotinator will not work
|
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within layouts. As mentioned in the <a class="reference internal" href="#dbus"><span>DBus</span></a> section,
|
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this has the potential to be improved upon.</p>
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