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TERMINATOR

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NAME

Terminator - Multiple GNOME terminals in one window  

SYNOPSIS

terminator [options]
 

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents Terminator, a terminal emulator application.

Terminator is a program that allows users to set up flexible arrangements of GNOME terminals. It is aimed at those who normally arrange lots of terminals near each other, but don't want to use a frame based window manager.  

OPTIONS

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.
-h, --help
Show summary of options
-d, --debug
Enable debugging output (please use this when reporting bugs)
-m, --maximise
Maximise the Terminator window when it starts
-f, --fullscreen
Place the Terminator window in its fullscreen state when it starts
-b, --borderless
Instruct the window manager not to render borders/decoration on the Terminator window (good with -m)
--no_gconf
Ignore the gconf settings of gnome-terminal
-p, --profile=PROFILE
Loads the GNOME Terminal profile named PROFILE
--geometry=GEOMETRY
Specifies the preferred size and position of Terminator's window; see X(7).
-e, --command=COMMAND
Runs the specified command instead of your default shell or profile specified command
-x, --execute=COMMAND [ARGS]
Runs the rest of the command line instead of your default shell or profile specified command.
 

KEYBINDINGS

The following keybindings can be used to control Terminator:
Ctrl+Shift+O
Split terminals Horizontally.
Ctrl+Shift+E
Split terminals Vertically.
Ctrl+Shift+Right
Move parent dragbar Right.
Ctrl+Shift+Left
Move parent dragbar Left.
Ctrl+Shift+Up
Move parent dragbar Up.
Ctrl+Shift+Down
Move parent dragbar Down.
Ctrl+Shift+S
Hide/Show Scrollbar.
Ctrl+Shift+F
Search within terminal scrollback
Ctrl+Shift+N or Ctrl+Tab
Move to next terminal within the same tab, use Ctrl+PageDown to move to the next tab. If cycle_term_tab is False, cycle within the same tab will be disabled
Ctrl+Shift+P or Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Move to previous terminal within the same tab, use Ctrl+PageUp to move to the previous tab. If cycle_term_tab is False, cycle within the same tab will be disabled
Ctrl+Shift+C
Copy selected text to clipboard
Ctrl+Shift+V
Paste clipboard text
Ctrl+Shift+W
Close the current terminal.
Ctrl+Shift+Q
Quits Terminator
Ctrl+Shift+X
Toggle between showing all terminals and only showing the current one.
Ctrl+Shift+Z
Toggle between showing all terminals and only showing a scaled version of the current one.
Ctrl+Shift+T
Open new tab
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+T
Open new tab at root level, if using extreme_tabs.
Ctrl+PageDown
Move to next Tab
Ctrl+PageUp
Move to previous Tab
Ctrl+Shift+PageDown
Swap tab position with next Tab
Ctrl+Shift+PageUp
Swap tab position with previous Tab
Ctrl+Shift+F
Open buffer search bar to find substrings in the scrollback buffer. Hit Escape to cancel.
Ctrl+Plus (+)
Increase font size. Note: this may require you to press shift, depending on your keyboard
Ctrl+Minus (-)
Decrease font size. Note: this may require you to press shift, depending on your keyboard
Ctrl+Zero (0)
Restore font size to original setting.
F11
Toggle fullscreen
 

Drag and Drop

The layout can be modified by moving terminals with Drag and Drop. To start dragging a terminal, hold down Ctrl, click and hold the right mouse button. Then, **Release Ctrl**. You can now drag the terminal do the point in the layout you would like it to be. The zone where the terminal would be inserted will be highlighted.  

SEE ALSO

gnome-terminal(1),terminator_config(5)  

AUTHOR

Terminator was written by Chris Jones <cmsj@tenshu.net> and others.

This manual page was written by Chris Jones <cmsj@tenshu.net> and others.

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
KEYBINDINGS
Drag and Drop
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
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