Overview

Terminator is an attempt to maximise useful space on a given desktop for terminals. I’m a sysadmin by trade, so I live in ssh sessions and thus terminals. An extra line here and there over all those hours seems like it’s worth trying for.

This is a pretty simple python script which places multiple vte widgets in a window. That’s the same widget used by gnome-terminal. At the moment I haven’t cloned all gnome-terminal behaviours, so there are unexpected and bugful behaviours, but these are slowly being addressed.

Screenshots:

From the sublime…

… to the ridiculous

Bugs/problems

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

Download

Version 0.8.1 can be downloaded from Launchpad

Older versions can also be found on Launchpad

Ubuntu

If you’re running Ubuntu Gutsy and want to stay up to date with the latest terminator, I am building packages with my Launchpad PPA. You can get the packages by adding the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:


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

The development branch is published on Launchpad.

The main Launchpad page for Terminator is here

IRC

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

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