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6 Terminator - Multiple GNOME terminals in one window
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9 terminator [options]
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12 This manual page documents Terminator, a terminal emulator application.
13 Terminator is a program that allows users to set up flexible arrange‐
15 ments of GNOME terminals. It is aimed at those who normally arrange
16 lots of terminals near each other, but don't want to use a frame based
17 window manager.
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20 This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
21 options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
22 included below.
23 -h, --help
25 Show summary of options
26 -v, --version
28 Show the version of the Terminator installation
29 -m, --maximise
31 Start with a maximised window -M, --maximize Start with a maxi‐
32 mized window
33 -f, --fullscreen
35 Start with a fullscreen window
36 -b, --borderless
38 Instruct the window manager not to render borders/decoration on
39 the Terminator window (this works well with -m)
40 -H, --hidden
42 Hide the Terminator window by default. Its visibility can be
43 toggled with the hide_window keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-Alt-a
44 by default)
45 -T, --title
47 Force the Terminator window to use a specific name rather than
48 updating it dynamically based on the wishes of the child shell.
49 --geometry=GEOMETRY
51 Specifies the preferred size and position of Terminator's win‐
52 dow; see X(7).
53 -e, --command=COMMAND
55 Runs the specified command instead of your default shell or pro‐
56 file specified command. Note: if Terminator is launched as x-
57 terminal-emulator -e behaves like -x, and the longform becomes
58 --execute2=COMMAND
59 -x, --execute COMMAND [ARGS]
61 Runs the rest of the command line instead of your default shell
62 or profile specified command.
63 --working-directory=DIR
65 Set the terminal's working directory
66 -g, --config FILE
68 Use the specified FILE for configuration
69 -r, --role=ROLE
71 Set a custom WM_WINDOW_ROLE property on the window
72 -l, --layout=LAYOUT
74 Start Terminator with a specific layout. The argument here is
75 the name of a saved layout.
76 -s, --select-layout=LAYOUT
78 Open the layout launcher window instead of the normal terminal.
79 -p, --profile=PROFILE
81 Use a different profile as the default
82 -i, --icon=FORCEDICON
84 Set a custom icon for the window (by file or name)
85 -u, --no-dbus
87 Disable DBus
88 -d, --debug
90 Enable debugging output (please use this when reporting bugs).
91 This can be specified twice to enable a built-in python debug‐
92 ging server.
93 --debug-classes=DEBUG_CLASSES
95 If this is specified as a comma separated list, debugging output
96 will only be printed from the specified classes.
97 --debug-methods=DEBUG_METHODS
99 If this is specified as a comma separated list, debugging output
100 will only be printed from the specified functions. If this is
101 specified in addition to --debug-classes, only the intersection
102 of the two lists will be displayed
103 --new-tab
105 If this is specified and Terminator is already running, DBus
106 will be used to spawn a new tab in the first Terminator window.
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109 The following default keybindings can be used to control Terminator:
110 F1 Launches the full HTML manual.
112 Creation & Destruction
114 The following items relate to creating and destroying terminals.
115 Ctrl+Shift+O
117 Split terminals Horizontally.
118 Ctrl+Shift+E
120 Split terminals Vertically.
121 Ctrl+Shift+T
123 Open new tab.
124 Ctrl+Shift+I
126 Open a new window. (Note: Unlike in previous releases, this win‐
127 dow is part of the same Terminator process.)
128 Super+I
130 Spawn a new Terminator process.
131 Alt+L Open layout launcher.
133 Ctrl+Shift+W
135 Close the current terminal.
136 Ctrl+Shift+Q
138 Close the current window.
139 Navigation
141 The following items relate to moving between and around terminals.
142 Alt+Up Move to the terminal above the current one.
144 Alt+Down
146 Move to the terminal below the current one.
147 Alt+Left
149 Move to the terminal left of the current one.
150 Alt+Right
152 Move to the terminal right of the current one.
153 Ctrl+PageDown
155 Move to next Tab.
156 Ctrl+PageUp
158 Move to previous Tab.
159 Ctrl+Shift+N or Ctrl+Tab
161 Move to next terminal within the same tab, use Ctrl+PageDown to
162 move to the next tab. If cycle_term_tab is False, cycle within
163 the same tab will be disabled.
164 Ctrl+Shift+P or Ctrl+Shift+Tab
166 Move to previous terminal within the same tab, use Ctrl+PageUp
167 to move to the previous tab. If cycle_term_tab is False, cycle
168 within the same tab will be disabled.
169 Organisation
171 The following items relate to arranging and resizing terminals.
172 Ctrl+Shift+Right
174 Move parent dragbar Right.
175 Ctrl+Shift+Left
177 Move parent dragbar Left.
178 Ctrl+Shift+Up
180 Move parent dragbar Up.
181 Ctrl+Shift+Down
183 Move parent dragbar Down.
184 Super+R
186 Rotate terminals clockwise.
187 Super+Shift+R
189 Rotate terminals counter-clockwise.
190 Drag and Drop
193 The layout can be modified by moving terminals with Drag and
194 Drop. To start dragging a terminal, click and hold on its
195 titlebar. Alternatively, hold down Ctrl, click and hold the
196 right mouse button. Then, **Release Ctrl**. You can now drag
197 the terminal to the point in the layout you would like it to be.
198 The zone where the terminal would be inserted will be high‐
199 lighted.
200 Ctrl+Shift+PageDown
202 Swap tab position with next Tab.
203 Ctrl+Shift+PageUp
205 Swap tab position with previous Tab.
206 Miscellaneous
208 The following items relate to miscellaneous terminal related functions.
209 Ctrl+Shift+C
211 Copy selected text to clipboard.
212 Ctrl+Shift+V
214 Paste clipboard text.
215 Ctrl+Shift+S
217 Hide/Show Scrollbar.
218 Ctrl+Shift+F
220 Search within terminal scrollback.
221 Ctrl+Shift+R
223 Reset terminal state.
224 Ctrl+Shift+G
226 Reset terminal state and clear window.
227 Ctrl+Plus (+)
229 Increase font size. Note: This may require you to press shift,
230 depending on your keyboard.
231 Ctrl+Minus (-)
233 Decrease font size. Note: This may require you to press shift,
234 depending on your keyboard.
235 Ctrl+Zero (0)
237 Restore font size to original setting.
238 Ctrl+Alt+W
240 Rename window title.
241 Ctrl+Alt+A
243 Rename tab title.
244 Ctrl+Alt+X
246 Rename terminal title.
247 Super+1
249 Insert terminal number, i.e. 1 to 12.
250 Super+0
252 Insert padded terminal number, i.e. 01 to 12.
253 Grouping & Broadcasting
255 The following items relate to helping to focus on a specific terminal.
256 F11 Toggle window to fullscreen.
258 Ctrl+Shift+X
260 Toggle between showing all terminals and only showing the cur‐
261 rent one (maximise).
262 Ctrl+Shift+Z
264 Toggle between showing all terminals and only showing a scaled
265 version of the current one (zoom).
266 Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A
268 Hide the initial window. Note that this is a global binding, and
269 can only be bound once.
270 The following items relate to grouping and broadcasting.
272 Super+T
274 Group all terminals in the current tab so input sent to one of
275 them, goes to all terminals in the current tab.
276 Super+Shift+T
278 Remove grouping from all terminals in the current tab.
279 Super+G
281 Group all terminals so that any input sent to one of them, goes
282 to all of them.
283 Super+Shift+G
285 Remove grouping from all terminals.
286 Alt+A Broadcast to All terminals.
288 Alt+G Broadcast to Grouped terminals.
290 Alt+O Broadcast Off.
292 Most of these keybindings are changeable in the Preferences.
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296 terminator_config(5)
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299 Terminator was written by Chris Jones <cmsj@tenshu.net> and others.
300 This manual page was written by Chris Jones <cmsj@tenshu.net> and oth‐
302 ers.
303 Jan 5, 2008 TERMINATOR(1)