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Terminator
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by Chris Jones <cmsj@tenshu.net> and others
## New home on GitHub
In April of 2020 we started moving Terminator to GitHub. A new team wanted to continue the work of the original authors.
Unfortunately we are not able to adopt the Launchpad project, so we could only inform users were possible.
You can find the project on https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator
## Description
The goal of this project is to produce a useful tool for arranging terminals.
It is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc. in that
the main focus is arranging terminals in grids (tabs is the most common default
method, which Terminator also supports).
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.
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: F1
More info about shortcuts and cli config in man pages:
man terminator
man terminator_config
## Contributing
Any help is welcome with the Terminator project.
* [Open issues for bugs or enhancements](https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator/issues/new)
* [Join our chat room on gitter.im for general questions](https://gitter.im/gnome-terminator/community)
You can find old bugs and questions in the launchpad project, but please don't post anything new there.
* https://answers.launchpad.net/terminator
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator
## Origins
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.
## Licensing
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