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. Note: if Terminator is launched as x-terminal-emulator -e behaves like -x, and the longform becomes --execute2=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
- -c, --classname=CLASSNAME
- Set a custom name (WM_CLASS) property on the window
- -l, --layout=LAYOUT
- Start Terminator with a specific layout. The argument here is the name of a saved layout.
- -s, --select-layout=LAYOUT
- Open the layout launcher window instead of the normal terminal.
- -p, --profile=PROFILE
- Use a different profile as the default
- -i, --icon=FORCEDICON
- Set a custom icon for the window (by file or name)
- -u, --no-dbus
- Disable DBus
- -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 output 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
- --new-tab
- If this is specified and Terminator is already running, DBus will be used to spawn a new tab in the first Terminator window.
KEYBINDINGS
- Super+R
- Rotate terminals clockwise.
- Super+Shift+R
- Rotate terminals counter-clockwise.
- 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
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AUTHOR
Terminator was written by Chris Jones <[email protected]> and others.This manual page was written by Chris Jones <[email protected]> and others.