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This article is about the Python terminal emulator influenced by GNOME Terminal. Not to be confused with Terminator, another similarly-named terminal emulator.
GNOME Terminator
Stable release
2.1.4[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 30 May 2024; 5 months ago (30 May 2024)
Repository
Written inPython
Operating systemLinux and Unix-like
TypeTerminal Emulator
LicenseGNU General Public License, version 2.0
Websitegnome-terminator.org Edit this on Wikidata
On Gentoo Linux, installing software
Preferences screen: Global tab
Preferences screen: Profile tab

GNOME Terminator is a free and open-source terminal emulator for Linux programmed in Python, licensed under GPL-2.0-only. The goal of the 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). Terminator packages exist for Arch,[2] Debian/Ubuntu,[3] Fedora,[4] OpenSUSE,[5] Gentoo,[6] Snap,[7] FreeBSD,[8] OpenBSD.[9] In 2017 took second place in voting at opensource.com, after Gnome Terminal.[10]

History

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Terminator is not a fork of GNOME Terminal (which is written in C); instead, it was developed from scratch by Chris Jones, entirely in Python (based on PyGObject to interact with the desktop environment and Python VTE providing the GUI component), but much of the behavior of Terminator is based on GNOME Terminal.[11] Terminator began from vte-demo.py in VTE and the gedit terminal plugin, which was useful to the authors for figuring out VTE's API.

In July 2013, Steve Boddy succeeded Jones and took the lead of the project.

GTK3+ support started near the end of 2012. The first version supporting GTK3+ was published by the end of 2016.

In April 2020 the project was forked to GitHub due to a lack of activity on Launchpad.[12][13]

Features

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The following features are available in the 2.x release of Terminator.[14]

  • Arrange terminals in a grid-like structure[15][16][17]
  • Tabs[18]
  • Drag and drop re-ordering of terminals
  • Lots of keyboard shortcuts[19]
  • Save multiple layouts and profiles via GUI preferences editor
  • Simultaneous typing to arbitrary groups of terminals
  • Ability to hide a scrollbar[20]
  • Extensible through plugins

References

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  1. ^ "Release 2.1.4". 30 May 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  2. ^ "AUR (en) - terminator-bzr". aur.archlinux.org. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  3. ^ "Debian -- Details of package terminator in buster". packages.debian.org. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  4. ^ "terminator - Fedora Apps".[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "openSUSE Software". software.opensuse.org. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  6. ^ "x11-terms/terminator – Gentoo Packages". packages.gentoo.org. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  7. ^ "Snap packages repository".
  8. ^ "FreshPorts -- x11/terminator: Multiple GNOME terminals in one window". www.freshports.org. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  9. ^ "OpenBSD Ports Readme: port x11/terminator". openports.pl. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
  10. ^ comments, 19 Oct 2017 Jason BakerFeed 1608up 90. "Top 7 open source terminal emulators for Linux". Opensource.com. Retrieved 2020-10-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Steve, Boddy. "Introduction blog post from the author". Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  12. ^ gnome-terminator/terminator, GNOME Terminator, 2020-07-27, retrieved 2020-07-27, In April of 2020 we started moving Terminator to GitHub. A new team wanted to continue the work of the original authors.
  13. ^ "A new home for terminator · Issue #1 · gnome-terminator/terminator". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-07-27. Sadly the old team of Terminator have given up maintaining the project, there hasn't been any activity on Launchpad for years now. As a user and the current maintainer of the package in Debian I have great interest in keeping the project alive.
  14. ^ "Welcome to Terminator's documentation! — Terminator 2.0 alpha documentation". terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  15. ^ Mao, Lei (27 August 2019). "Gnome Terminator". Lei Mao's Log Book. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  16. ^ "How to Install Terminator, a Linux Terminal Emulator on Steroids". DEV Community. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  17. ^ "terminator - Multiple GNOME terminals in one window". www.mankier.com. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  18. ^ "Slant - Gnome Terminal vs Terminator detailed comparison as of 2020". Slant. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  19. ^ Maruthamuthu, Magesh (2017-10-31). "Terminator- A Linux terminal emulator to support multiple re-sizable terminal panels in single window". 2daygeek.com. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  20. ^ Arianto, Pungki (2013-11-07). "How to Use Terminator on Linux (Manage Multiple Terminal)". LinOxide. Retrieved 2020-10-26.


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