Pondering the mystery…

Terminator

Overview

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).

Much of the behaviour of Terminator is based on GNOME Terminal, and we are adding more features from that as time goes by, but we also want to extend out in different directions with useful features for sysadmins and other users. If you have any suggestions, please file wishlist bugs! (see below for the address)

Features:

  • Arrange terminals in a grid
  • Tabs
  • Drag and drop re-ordering of terminals
  • Lots of keyboard shortcuts
  • Config file to override gnome-terminal settings

Screenshots:

This is my typical workspace for Terminals:

but you can do anything, from the sublime…

… to the ridiculous
Terminator Ridiculous

Documentation

We now include documentation for all of Terminator’s keybindings and config options in man pages included in the source/packages. See:

man terminator
man terminator_config

Bugs/problems

Please report all bugs on Launchpad Bugs.
Please ask questions on Launchpad Answers or email me

Your question may be answered in our Launchpad Answers FAQs. If not, ask a question there and maybe it will join the FAQ!

Download

Distributions

Ubuntu

Intrepid Ibex (8.10):

Click here: Install Terminator 0.11

Hardy Heron (8.04):

Click here: Install Terminator 0.8.1

You can track the latest stable release by adding the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ubuntu hardy main restricted universe multiverse

Then run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install terminator. Note that you’ll get a warning about a lack of authentication on the package - this is quite normal and unavoidable because PPA doesn’t sign packages.

Gutsy Gibbon (7.10):

You can track the latest stable release by adding the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe multiverse

Then run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install terminator. Note that you’ll get a warning about a lack of authentication on the package - this is quite normal and unavoidable because PPA doesn’t sign packages.

Thanks to Nicolas Valcarcel for his fantastic work in pushing Terminator into Debian and Ubuntu

Debian

If you are running Debian sid then you should find the latest version, although it may be slightly behind the current release.

Fedora/OpenSuSE

The source tarball (see below) contains a .spec file which should build on at least Fedora. If you would like to assist getting Terminator into either of these distributions, please contact us!

FreeBSD

To install Terminator in FreeBSD, run:

cd /usr/ports/x11/terminator && make install clean, or portinstall terminator, or pkg_add -r terminator

See this page for more information.

Foresight

To install Terminator in Foresight Linux, you can either use the Add/Remove program (PackageKit), or the following command:

sudo conary update terminator

Source

Version 0.11 can be downloaded from Launchpad
Older versions can be found here.

Development

The development branch is published on Launchpad Code.

The main Launchpad page for Terminator is here

Thanks

Terminator is a team effort. I would like to thank the following:

  • Nicolas Valcarcel for his sterling work packaging Terminator for Debian and Ubuntu and pushing it into those distributions.
  • Emmanuel Bretelle for his excellent work on Tab support and many other features.
  • Chris Oattes, Thomas Meire, Kees Cook, Huang He for their contributions to the code.
  • Thomas Hurst for code, FreeBSD port and general coding mavenry.
  • The excellent army of translators on Launchpad who have brought Terminator to 42 languages.
  • Jorge and the other bloggers who help promote Terminator
  • You.
  • Everyone else I’ve forgotten.

IRC

If you’d like to discuss Terminator, please feel free to drop by our IRC channel - #terminator on irc.freenode.net

and finally…

or, as one commentator put it…“Another possibility to more take advantage of efficient way all the power of the line of commandos.”quite.