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terminator trunk:
Features
Enhancements
* As part of GTK3 fixup, some backported improvements to the DBus
interface, and remotinator (Steve Boddy)
* Can now open a window or tab using remotinator
* Can get the window uuid, or title using remotinator
* Moved new tab key handling into the terminal for consistency
* Standardise response when a new term is created (split, win
or tab) to reply with new terms uuid
* For GTK3 gave the DBus a slightly different name so they it
can run at same time as GTK2
* remotinator now uses argparse for commandline option handling,
vastly improving the option handling
* remotinator help strings are translatable now
* PuTTY paste mode (Nemilya, LP#1416682) with some alterations
(Steve Boddy)
* Updated and grouped default shortcuts in man page (Steve Boddy)
* Added smart copy mode switch to prefs (Steve Boddy, LP#1223129)
* Merge feature branch for tab/terminal title editing (Haim
Daniel LP#1417747)
* Make Zoom/Maximize inactive if a single terminal (Egmont
Koblinger, LP#1518081)
* Add dimming for 256 colour palettes (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1518111)
* Update TERM to more modern values (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1518557)
* Change the scroll_on_output default to false (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1392822)
Bug fixes
* Fix for those not running IBus, where the IBus workaround caused
broken keys in other keymaps set with non-IBus tools (Steve
Boddy, LP#1494606)
* Fix custom commands to use the standard gerr function instead
of the broken local one (Steve Boddy)
* Workaround for intltool not handling Python files without an
extension (Steve Boddy)
* Fix intermittant rebalance failures (Steve Boddy, LP#1504560)
* Fix focus dimming so when set to 1.0, it doesn't trash temporary
palette changes by applications. Not needed in gtk3 (Steve Boddy,
LP#1512905)
* Correct some British spelt translated strings to American
(Egmont Koblinger, LP#1518085)
* Fix the palette for inactive terminals after Prefs window
(Egmont Koblinger, LP#1518108)
* Fix copy on selection to work on already open terminals (Egmont
Koblinger, LP#1518109)
* Fix warning trying to import the __init__.py file as a plugin
(Egmont Koblinger, LP#1518065)
* Fix unwanted seperator size change, and increase granularity of
dim/transparent sliders (Egmont Koblinger, LP#1518114)
* Fix cwd when new term spawned from a symlinked directory - has
no impact, just keeping code aligned (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1518554)
* Correct terminator_config man page regarding scrollback (Egmont
Koblinger, LP#1518559)
* Fix rotate terminals under tabs (Egmont Koblinger, LP#1316573,
LP#1520360)
* Fix PuTTY paste mode so Ctrl-Right-Drag terminal still works
(Steve Boddy)
* Remove invalid double-quote (") from the pathchar for url regex
matching (Steve Boddy, LP#1514578)
* Fix drag and drop of a link from Firefox / Chrome (Egmont
Koblinger, LP#1518705)
* Fix profile re-use when opening new window (Egmont Koblinger,
LP#1520705)
* Fix scrollbar position on current terminals when changed in
prefs (Egmont Koblinger, LP#1520761)
terminator 0.98:
* Features
* Layout launcher with option or shortcut (Steve Boddy)
* An all-new manual! Default to F1 key (Steve Boddy)
* An initial separate port to gtk3 is available for the brave, which
is having all trunk changes applied to it while the issues get
shaken out (Egmont Koblinger & Steve Boddy)
* Enhancements
* Layout launcher reloads config when opened to be sure it has the
latest layouts (Steve Boddy)
* Reload the config before we write to it or we could overwrite
something from another instance (Steve Boddy)
* When saving, a layout now remembers:
* maximised and fullscreen status (Steve Boddy)
* window titles (Steve Boddy, LP#1192960)
* which tab was active (Steve Boddy)
* which terminal was active (Steve Boddy, LP#858268)
* working directory for each terminal (MoMaT, LP#1157422) plus
additional GUI code (Steve Boddy)
* Add vertical scrollbar to the layout launcher and make mouse
wheel scrolling work (Steve Boddy)
* Add vertical scrollbars to the Profiles and Layouts tabs in
Preferences (Steve Boddy, LP#1396843)
* Add options for non-homogenous tabs and scroll arrows (Grizzly
Smit)
* Add shortcuts for scrolling up/down by line/half-page/page
(nanikata, LP#332267)
* Improve consistency of Custom Commands menu (David Caro, LP#684340)
* New distinct icons for non terminal windows (Steve Boddy)
* Active terminal per tab is remembered (Steve Boddy, LP#315956)
* Add shortcuts/code to toggle All/Tab grouping (Steve Boddy,
LP#1097347)
* Improve watcher plugin (Joseph Crosland) with additional fixup
(Steve Boddy)
* Add Ctrl+MouseWheel Zoom in/out and Shift+MouseWheel page scroll
up/down (Steve Boddy)
* Add Ctrl+Shift+MouseWheel and Ctrl+Super+MouseWheel to zoom
receivers or all terminals (Steve Boddy)
* Add search bar wrap toggle (Christophe Bourez)
* Add default broadcast behaviour selection (Jiri, LP#1288835)
* Improve testing, distcheck, setup.py (Bryce Harrington)
* Major cleanup and reorganisation of the preferences window (Steve
Boddy)
* Complete revamp of the Global tab
* Splitters added on the 'Profiles', 'Layouts' and 'Plugins' tabs
for resizing lists
* Made the 'Layouts' tab and the 'Profile' sub-tabs more consistent
style wise
* Included a new 'About' tab with some project links
* Add global setting for changing the titlebar font (Eli Zor)
expanded and improved (Steve Boddy)
* Add shortcuts for next/prev profile (Peter E Lind, LP#1314734)
* Improve DnD to handle multiple files (Schplurtz le Déboulonné)
and (Steve Boddy)
* Add 'Save' button for saving to the selected Layout (Ariel
Zelivansky)
* Preselect the current layout when opening Prefs window, and also
save config after using the layout 'Save' button (Steve Boddy)
* Add default shortcuts for some actions by my preference (Steve
Boddy)
* Added HighContrast icons, and fix all window/menu icons to respect
theme changes (Steve Boddy, LP#305579)
* Add option to set how long ActivityWatcher plugin is quiet for
(Steve Boddy)
* Big tidy up and improvements to translation strings, although it
will require additional work by translators (Steve Boddy)
* Make the menu mnemonics a bit more consistent, or add them where
they were missing (Steve Boddy)
* Add fallback to psutils to discover the cwd of a terminal (Heon
Jeong, LP#1261293) with additional fixup (Steve Boddy)
* Slight improvement (IMO) to the zoom terminal font scaling (Steve
Boddy, LP#329158)
* Add an internationalised AppData file for software installers
(Steve Boddy, LP#1323785)
* Bug fixes
* Fix <Mod>+double-click to not rebalance splitters (Steve Boddy,
LP#1192679)
* Fix closing a group to no longer leaves strays (Steve Boddy,
LP#1193484)
* Fix shader so it works for background images too (Steve Boddy,
LP#1202109)
* Fix x-terminal-emulator option (Neal Fultz, LP#366644)
* Fix lost geom when using -H option (Steve Boddy, LP#1035617)
* Fix maximise in Fluxbox. Possibly also Windows w/Xming too (Steve
Boddy, LP#1201454)
* Fix lack of focus on unhide with patch from (Pavel Khlebovich,
LP#805870)
* Fix the Group All/Tab shortcuts where titlebars were not updated
(Steve Boddy, LP#1242675)
* Fix splits not being central mith multiple tabs (Justin Ossevoort,
LP#1186953)
* Fix closing of tab with multiple terminals not closing (Steve
Boddy, 1253995)
* Fix custom commands broadcast to grouped terminals (Mauro S M
Rodrigues, LP#1414332)
* Fix libc loading in freebsd.py. Restores pwd detection. (Thomas
Hurst)
* Fix scrollbar doubleclick rebalancing (Bryce Harrington, LP#1423686)
and (Steve Boddy)
* Fix crash when capslock pressed while editing a tab title (wizwiz50,
LP#1313761)
* Fix navigation between terminals (Julián Moreno Patiño LP#1433810)
and (Steve Boddy, LP#328235, LP#1433810)
* Fix option --new-tab to show application (Pavel Roschin, LP#1367680)
and (Steve Boddy)
* Fix xterm color palette to match xterm (Casper Ti. Vector,
LP#1260924)
* Fix (unconfirmed) for Fedora messing up prompts in gtk2 vte if
gtk3 vte is also installed (Steve Boddy, LP-Q#268135)
* Fix to make the debugserver work with two or more -d flags as per
docs, not three or more (Steve Boddy)
* Fix unwanted newline on DnD file (Schplurtz le Déboulonné,
LP#1311481)
* Fix DnD filenames with sh-quote, even those with ' (Schplurtz le
Déboulonné)
* Fix multi-line DnD to full text block, not just first line (Steve
Boddy)
* Fix slightly uneven splits on shortcut due to handle size, though
this will make previously saved layouts off by a few pixels (Steve
Boddy, LP#1089162)
* Man page typo (Michael Eller, LP#1296725)
* Fix new tab labels when adding a tab to a window with splits (Steve
Boddy)
* Minor visual fix for slider in prefs filling whole trough (Steve
Boddy)
* Buttons in Prefs>Layouts tab cannot be hidden by slider (Steve
Boddy)
* Fix Super+double-click on splitter within tabs (Steve Boddy)
* Fix composed characters for receivers (Takao Fujiwara, LP#1463704)
* Fix launcher opening after a dbus enabled window is already open
(Steve Boddy, LP#1283002)
* Sort entries in config file, so they don't jump around every time
config is saved for easier troubleshooting (Steve Boddy)
* Start 'New Layout #' from 1. Looked strange starting at 2 (Steve
Boddy)
* Fix the renaming of Layouts/Profiles sometimes corrupting what
appears in the config file (Steve Boddy, LP#1262709)
* Fix the way alternatives are set up that cures blurry/incorrect
icons in task switchers (Steve Boddy, LP#1067287)
* Fix the tab switching if a terminal on another tab exits (Steve
Boddy, LP#943311)
terminator 0.97:
* Allow font dimming in inactive terminals
* Allow URL handler plugins to override label text for URL context
menus
* When copying a URL, run it through the URL handler first so the
resulting URL is copied, rather than the original text
* Allow users to configure a custom URL handler, since the
default GTK library option is failing a lot of users in non-GNOME
environments.
* Allow rotation of a group of terminals (Andre Hilsendeger)
* Add a keyboard shortcut to insert a terminal's number (Stephen J
Boddy)
* Add a keyboard shortcut to edit the window title (Stephen J Boddy)
* Add an easy way to balance terminals by double clicking on their
separator (Stephen J Boddy)
* Add a plugin by Sinan Nalkaya to log the contents of terminals.
* Support configuration of TERM and COLORTERM, via a patch from
John Feuerstein
* Support reading configuration from alternate files, via a patch
from Pavel Khlebovich
* Allow creation of new tabs in existing Terminators, via DBus
* Support the Solarized palettes (Juan Francisco Cantero Hutardo)
* Translation support for the Preferences window.
* Lots of translation updates (thanks to everyone who helped!)
* Bug fixes
terminator 0.96:
* Unity support for opening new windows (Lucian Adrian Grijincu)
* Fix searching with infinite scrollback (Julien Thewys #755077)
* Fix searching on Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04, and implement searching
by regular expression (Roberto Aguilar #709018)
* Optimise various low level components so they are dramatically
faster (Stephen Boddy)
* Fix various bugs (Stephen Boddy)
* Fix cursor colours (#700969) and a cursor blink issue (Tony Baker)
* Improve and extend drag&drop support to include more sources of
text, e.g. Gtk file chooser path buttons (#643425)
* Add a plugin to watch a terminal for inactvity (i.e. silence)
* Fix loading layouts with more than two tabs (#646826)
* Fix order of tabs created from saved layouts (#615930)
* Add configuration to remove terminal dimensions from titlebars
(patch from João Pinto #691213)
* Restore split positions more accurately (patch from Glenn Moss
#797953)
* Fix activity notification in active terminals. (patch from Chris
Newton #748681)
* Stop leaking child processes if terminals are closed using the
context menu (#308025)
* Don't forget tab order and custom labels when closing terminals
in them (#711356)
* Each terminal is assigned a unique identifier and this is exposed
to the processes inside the terminal via the environment variable
TERMINATOR_UUID
* Expand dbus support to start covering useful methods. Also add
a commandline tool called 'remotinator' that can be used to control
Terminator from a terminal running inside it.
* Fix terminal font settings for users of older Linux distributions
terminator 0.95:
* Add a configuration option to enable a DBus server
* Add a configuration option to disable font anti-aliasing
* Improved error handling in various locations
* Maven URL handler plugin (thanks to Julien Nicoulaud)
terminator 0.94:
* Improved support for entirely hiding Terminal titlebars
* Plugin configuration via preferences UI
* New plugins: Terminal Screenshot, Watch Terminal Activity
* Add preferences support for profile encodings (LP: #597340)
* Deprecate the tabbar_hide option, replacing it with a 'hidden'
option for tab_position.
* Add profiles, custom titlebar and custom tab labels to layouts.
* Improved directional navigation
* Backwards compatibility fixes for RHEL 5.5.
* Disabled-by-default keybindings for switching broadcast modes
* Bug fixes for LPs: #566925, #563445, #583041, #589200, #576279,
#597340, #554571, #597651, #308025, #600280, #576276, #570706,
#575827 and some other bugs.
terminator 0.93:
* Add preferences support for alternate_screen_scroll (LP: #558832).
* Bug fixes for LPs: #562490, #563911, #546665, #558324, #490627,
#558376, #558375, #559185, #558330, #554571, #554440, #561697,
#562039, #558832, #561710, #563445 and some other bugs.
terminator 0.92:
* Lots of juicy bug fixes
* Implement the Palette section of the Profile preferences
terminator 0.91:
* Fix various stupid release bugs from 0.90
terminator 0.90:
* Almost complete refactoring of the code. This almost
inevitably means some regressions, unfortunately, but
it brings serious internal improvements and some new
features.
* Brand new preferences editor, including profiles and
layouts. The editor now saves to a config file.
terminator 0.14:
* Major reworking of the grouping interface by Stephen
Boddy
* Keybindings can now be disabled by setting them to "None"
* Change default behaviour to enable full transparency
* Terminal titlebars can now be edited like tab labels
* Geometry hinting is now available and enabled by default
* Lots of bug fixing
terminator 0.13:
* Bug fixes
* Added a shortcut key to make the window appear/disappear
(somewhat like a "Quake console" mode. Needs the deskbar
python bindings to work)
* Update pot generation to use intltool-update
* Allow users to permanently fix the title of a tab
* Added command line option to specify working directory
* Improve transparency support in composited desktops.
* The tab bar can now be hidden and/or scrolled.
* Add configurability of cursor colour and shape
* Support various VoIP URIs
* Add command line option to force a particular window title
* Add a hotkey for spawning a new Terminator instance
(emulates a "new window" feature)
* Ability to group by tab
* SunOS support (via patch from Lewis Thompson)
* Silly notify-osd message on exit (suggested by pitti)
* Drag and drop icon is now a scaled terminal image
terminator 0.12:
* Bug fixes
* Simultaneous typing support
* Directional terminal navigation
* Improved search UI
* Graphical Profile Editor
* Bug numbers for launchpad.net are now URLs
terminator 0.11:
* Bug fixes
* X session support
terminator 0.10:
* Various bug fixes.
* New, improved config file parsing
* Improved spawning of more complex terminal commands
* Debug server (not useful for most people)
* Configurable keyboard shortcuts
* Scrollback searching
* Support --geometry
terminator 0.9:
* Tab support
* Drag & Drop support
* Added support for ~/.config/terminator/config
* Switch the meanings of "horizontal" and "vertical" wrt splitting,
after extensive user feedback. Added context menu icons to try and
make the meaning clearer.
* Added keybindings for terms size and scrollbar manipulation. Thanks
Emmanuel Bretelle.
* Completely revamped config system which now transparently makes use
of gconf settings if they are available, falls back to sensible
defaults if not, and can be overridden entirely by ~/.config/terminator/config
* Support terminal zooming - now you can quickly hide all terminals apart
from one and either scale the fontsize or not.
* New application icon from Cory Kontros
* FreeBSD support (thanks to Thomas Hurst)
* Watch the system monospace font setting. Closes LP #197960
* Proxy support (via GNOME and $http_proxy)
* GConf backend now caches
* Fix redundant title when there is only one Term. Closes LP#215210
* Try much harder to find a usable shell
* Support encodings a-la GNOME Terminal
* Move python support code to a terminatorlib module
* Many other bug fixes and wider compatibility with GNOME Terminal
* Add support to cycle term within the same tab. Closes LP#238205.
This can be disabled by setting cycle_term_tab to False in
~/.config/terminator/config
terminator 0.8.1:
* Fixed ChangeLog
* Revert URI matching behaviour to the same as gnome-terminal
* Close LP #179315 with a fuller fix that provides proper colour support
terminator 0.8:
* Make dependency on python-gnome optional. Non-gnome users can now reap
the glorious benefits of Terminator and will only lose the ability to
open email URLs (assuming their browser won't handle this for them).
Closes LP #184809
* Remove blank translations from .desktop file to fix empty menu entries.
Closes LP #187187
* Add application icon at various sizes including a window icon
* New options parser allowing -x support. Closes LP191124
* More translations (thanks!)
terminator 0.7:
* Fullscreen support, via a patch from Thomas Meire. Closes LP #178914
* Improved behaviour when closing terminals/window. Result of work by
Thomas Meire. Closes LP #161121
* Freedesktop .desktop file and appropriate setup.py entry for
installing it. Closes LP #178943
* Translation support, with Spanish, Dutch, Italian and Romanian
translations. Closes LP #161120
* Stop clashing with gnome-terminal's paste shortcut key, move
horizontal splitting shortcut too, and add support for
gnome-terminal's copy/paste shortcuts. Closes LP #179310
* Borderless support (tell your window manager not to decorate
Terminator)
* Font zooming support. Closes LP #178792
* Set the VTE widget to have a tooltip of its window title. This may be
reverted if it is annoying
* Support GNOME Terminal profile settings for backgrounds.
Closes LP #180717
* Use our own default values if there is no gnome-terminal profile.
Closes LP #179315
terminator 0.6:
* Use new gnome-terminal gconf key to find available profiles
* Move a few more hardcoded items to our settings array (not that
it can be overridden yet)
* Fix handling of exiting child processes to properly track
gnome-terminal settings
* Add Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab as options for switching terminals
(patch from Kees Cook)
* Stop using parent.show_all() when removing/adding a terminal and
instead show the actual widgets that have been created. This
prevents scrollbars from re-appearing after they have been hidden
terminator 0.5:
* The terminator window is now able to resize smaller,
thanks to Kees Cook for the fix.
* Email addresses are now matched and opened correctly.
Closes LP #139015
* Double clicking a URL now selects the whole URL. Closes LP #129533
* The default behaviour is now to open a single 80x24 terminal rather
than four terminals in a maximised window. Closes LP #126219 and
should force me to fix LP #87720
* There are now hotkeys for switching between terminals, splitting
terminals and closing them. Closes LP #149931 and #148622(thanks
to Huanghe for patches for this)
* If there is only one terminal, closing it will not produce a quit
message
terminator 0.4:
* Architecture should be all, not any
* Fix section
* Add AUTHORS file
* Rename script to drop the .py
* Handle the gnome-terminal profile better by offering command options
* Fudge around some resizing issues
* Fix child spawning to avoid segfaulting zsh
* Misc. code formatting/style improvements
* Refactor terminal splitting into one axis agnostic function
* Flesh out setup.py a tiny bit more
terminator 0.3:
* Implemented terminal closing, which correctly reparents its sibling
(if any)
* Updated documentation to reflect a serious bug with shells that aren't
bash (or at least zsh)
terminator 0.2:
* Support dynamically splitting terminals
terminator 0.1:
* Fixed some distribution wording
* Fix build-depends
* Initial release