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
- -v, --version
- Show the version of the Terminator installation
- -m, --maximise
- Start with a maximised window
- -f, --fullscreen
- Start with a fullscreen window
- -b, --borderless
- Instruct the window manager not to render
borders/decoration on the Terminator window (this works well with -m)
- -H, --hidden
- Hide the Terminator window by default. Its visibility can
be toggled with the hide_window keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-Alt-a
by default)
- -T, --title
- Force the Terminator window to use a specific name rather
than updating it dynamically based on the wishes of the child shell.
- --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.
- --working-directory=DIR
- Set the terminal's working directory
- -r, --role=ROLE
- Set a custom WM_WINDOW_ROLE property on the window
- -l, --layout=LAYOUT
- Start Terminator with a specific layout. The argument here
is the name of a saved layout.
- -d, --debug
- Enable debugging output (please use this when reporting
bugs). This can be specified twice to enable a built-in python debugging
server.
- --debug-classes=DEBUG_CLASSES
- If this is specified as a comma separated list, debugging
output will only be printed from the specified classes.
- --debug-methods=DEBUG_METHODS
- If this is specified as a comma separated list, debugging
outut will only be printed from the specified functions. If this is
specified in addition to --debug-classes, only the intersection of the two
lists will be displayed
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
- Alt+Up
- Move to the terminal above the current one.
- Alt+Down
- Move to the terminal below the current one.
- Alt+Left
- Move to the terminal left of the current one.
- Alt+Right
- Move to the terminal right of the current one.
- 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 (maximise).
- Ctrl+Shift+Z
- Toggle between showing all terminals and only showing a
scaled version of the current one (zoom).
- Ctrl+Shift+T
- Open new tab
- 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+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
- Ctrl+Shift+R
- Reset terminal state
- Ctrl+Shift+G
- Reset terminal state and clear window
- Super+g
- Group all terminals so that any input sent to one of them,
goes to all of them.
- Super+Shift+G
- Remove grouping from all terminals.
- Super+t
- Group all terminals in the current tab so input sent to one
of them, goes to all terminals in the current tab.
- Super+Shift+T
- Remove grouping from all terminals in the current tab.
- Ctrl+Shift+I
- Open a new window (note: unlike in previous releases, this
window is part of the same Terminator process)
- Super+i
- Spawn a new Terminator process
Drag and Drop¶
The layout can be modified by moving terminals with Drag and Drop. To start
dragging a terminal, click and hold on its titlebar. Alternatively, hold down
Ctrl, click and hold the
right mouse button. Then,
**Release
Ctrl**. You can now drag the terminal to the point in the layout you would
like it to be. The zone where the terminal would be inserted will be
highlighted.
SEE ALSO¶
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.