Questions tagged [terminator]
Terminator is a terminal emulator that lets you arrange multiple terminals in one window.
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How can I remove the shortcut 'Alt + L' in terminator
When I use Neovim in Terminator, I need to use Alt + L to change documents. But when I use Alt + L, the terminator will launch the layout Launcher. How can I remove the shortcut in Terminator?
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Set title of Terminator terminal tab in config
I am trying to setup a terminator terminal with a few tabs.
I would like to change the title of the tabs in the config
so when I launch the terminal tabs, they are properly titled/named.
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Open terminator settings after activating paste on right click
I installed terminator in Ubuntu 18.10 and want to have putty style pasting (right click = paste). This works, but unfortunately I'm unable to open the settings now. The settings were displayed in a ...
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Why is Terminator sending double characters to terminals that aren't selected in broadcast mode?
I'm installing 3 servers in parallel, and am using Terminator with a 3-way split pane to do so.
Any time I go to the context menu in Terminator, and I use the broadcast feature to select "broadcast ...
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Terminator icon not showing properly on ubuntu 22.04 dock
When I open the terminator console in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS following shows:
This wasn't an issue in Ubuntu 20.04 and I've only seen it happen with the terminator console. I've purged it and reinstalled ...
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How to enable automatic logging in Terminator in Ubuntu
How can we enable automatic logging to a file in Terminator just like we do in putty based terminal emulator?
In Putty we can just enable the all session output to a location - D:\putty-log&H-&...
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Terminator is not working on Ubuntu 14.04, says I need to "install the python bindings"
I have installed terminator using sudo apt-get install terminator, but when I try to run it I get this error:
$ terminator
You need to install the python bindings for gobject, gtk and pango to run ...
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Script to launch mutiple terminal of terminator
I am new to terminator, where I need to launch 4 terminal. I have a script run1.sh which I want to run on first two terminal simultaneously and script run2.sh in other two terminal simultaneously.
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Terminator: disable middle click closing the tabs
I want to stop Terminator (Ubuntu-22.04) to close the current tab if i middle click on the tab title. I often close the tabs accidentally when there is a process running in the current tab.
I am using ...
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How do I fix the terminator screen going black?
When multiple tabs are open in terminator and the window is in focus contents of only the active/focussed tab are visible and all the remaining tabs simply go black. The processes in these tabs aren't ...
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MD5/SHA Ubuntu Download verification
I would appreciate if someone could tell me how to download and verify the MD5,SHA file on the terminal.
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How to configure Terminator to be opened by default with a custom profile?
For Terminator is possible create custom profiles, it mostly to define colors.
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How to configure Terminator to be opened by default with a custom profile?
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How to redefine custom shortcut to open Terminal once Terminator was installed?
For Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, with the ctrl + alt + t shortcut is opened the default terminal available.
Now Terminator was installed and with the same shorcut now Terminator is opened instead. I did do a ...
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Terminator with two or more open tabs leave the window with a white border on Lubuntu
I'm using Lubuntu 17.10, and I installed Terminator. When opening two tabs, I noticed that the window, even in full screen, has an ugly white border around all of it.
Seeing the image here might be ...
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How to Select-All in Terminator
How can I select all the text in a Terminator terminal? Ctrl-Shift-A does not work.
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What is the difference between Terminator and Tmux ?
What is the different between Tmux and Terminator? I currently use Terminator which allows me to add more shell in same screen by splitting them horizontally or vertically.
I read about them in some ...
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How to get terminator to context menu in 18.04
While using previous LTS 16.xx I did have terminator in Nautilus context (right click) menu "Open with terminator" per steps done with nautilus-actions-config-tool.
Anyway after update to 18.04 ...
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terminator does not open maximized in ubuntu 23.04
I've updated my Ubuntu from 22 to 23.04 and the terminator app which I use instead of its own terminal does not open maximized. without any changes, in ubuntu 22 when I press ctrl+alt+t, it opens ...
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change title for tabs in Terminator
I connect to many servers using Terminator and the tabs will display username@host
This is fine when I have a few tabs but once I get many tabs all I see is username...
Is there a way to display the ...
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Connecting to raspberry pi failure in name resolution
My current setup is that I have multiple Raspberry pis connected to my laptop through a network switch. None of the pis are connected to the internet. I want to broadcast commands to all of them to ...
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Setting nautilus-open-terminal to launch Terminator rather than gnome-terminal
The nautilus-open-terminal package adds a menu/right-click option to open a terminal in the current directory.
I want to change this from opening gnome-terminal to opening terminator. There is some ...
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Terminator - command not found
I am new to Linux and installed Terminator. While i can perform basic commands like cd, ls etc no application command will work. npm , sh, foreman for example all say command not found or the likes.
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Terminator on Windows subsystem on Linux needs two enters to work!
When I start terminator on Windows subsystem on Linux I need to write the command and then press Enter key twice to run a command only for the first time, then it becomes normal, some info:
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Unable to set Terminator as default Terminal in Ubuntu with Cinnamon Desktop
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 from the official website and installed terminator using APT and It worked! Ctrl+Alt+T started terminator.
Then I installed cinnamon desktop, rebooted and Ctrl+Alt+T came up ...
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Auto copy on double click in Terminator
I used to be a heavy user of iTerm2 and one of it's most useful features I found was to auto-copy the text to clipboard when I double click and select something. I recently transitioned to Ubuntu and ...
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How to have terminator open tabs on tailing (less +F) log files on remote machines
I would like to develop a terminator layout that opens 4 tabs, having 3 of them showing log files on remote machines in tailing mode (less +F <logfile>) and the last one monitoring the content ...
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how to start terminator with a custom command per window?
This seems like a typical use-case yet I can't find a way to do it-
I created a layout having multiple windows.
I want each window to open an SSH session to a different server.
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Terminal colors rendering darker on 20.04
For some reason, way terminal colors are rendered seems to have changed after upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04. To take a concrete example, here's what terminator looks like in 18.04.
And here's what it ...
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Can I change the character colors that is used in ctags candidate listing?
When I use a certain theme in my 'terminator' setting, the tag candidate list uses colors that I don't want so I can't see them clearly when I'm working remotely. The figure is like this.
How can I ...
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How to force window focus of Terminator after it is launched with --new-tab as command line argument?
I'm using Terminator.
My goal is to press ctrl-alt-T, and get a new tab in Terminator, and have that instance of Terminator get focus (like what happens with existing ctrl-alt-T to default Terminal)
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Increase terminal font size on focus
I can normally change terminal font size using mouse and +/-
I need multipane terminal with four panes/windows that the focused pane automatically increases font size on focus and restores the normal ...
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Is there any plugin available to highlight the matched search text in Terminator?
I would like to search from the tail result in my current tab. Terminator provides option to search for certain text - but since it's not highlighting the matched text not able to find it easily.
Is ...
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Terminator does not add to dock icon when opened via Ctrl+Alt+T
UBUNTU 18.04 and Gnome3 desktop.
I have installed Terminator and set it to be default terminal application. So, when I press Ctrl+Alt+T it pops up instead of default terminal application. I also ...
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How do I get Terminator to start up with my custom layout?
Terminator is very powerful at organizing several computers or servers due to the split window and group all function. But here's the deal: I created my own Layout and would appreciate it to load at ...
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Unlimited Scroll in Terminator
I'm using Terminator version 0.97.
Is there a way that I can scroll unlimited? In the current version I only can scroll back limited history
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KDE 5.24 defaults to Konsole even if Terminator was selected as the default Terminal emulator
I've recently switched to KDE on my Ubuntu 22.04 and in the settings I'd set up Terminator to be the default Terminal emulator.
But whenever I start terminal using Ctrl + Alt + T, the Konsole comes up ...
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Make terminator ask for permission before closing if something is being executed
I normally use Terminator as a terminal instead of the GNOME one. So far I am really happy with Terminator. However, the GNOME terminal asks for permission before closing if something is running in ...
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How do I remove the "X" button on the tabs in terminator?
I really like terminator, but it has one big drawback: Sometimes when I try to switch to another tab, I accidentally hit the "X" button on the right of the tab. Then that tab closes, and I ...
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Terminator: shortcuts don't work after switching the keyboard layout
I'm having a strange problem with Terminator:
The keyboard shortcuts work for the default keyboard layout (in my case, German) just fine.
But when I switch the keyboard layout using Super+Space (to ...
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Terminator (terminal emulator) auto exit on ubuntu 20.04
I used Terminator (terminal emulator) on ubuntu 20.04 for a long time.
I was trying to customise the Terminator.
suddenly it exits. And after that when I open it and do right-click on it, then it ...
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Have neovim load a file from file explorer
I would like to have neovim as a default text editor also when accessed from file explorer.
When I choose it from the "open with" dialogue or when it is the default for some file extension I'...
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How to change the terminal title and the prompt path to show only the current working directory’s name? [duplicate]
I use Terminator terminal. As you can see from the screenshot below, everywhere it shows the directory names. Instead of showing whole directory names, I want it to show only the last directory name i....
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ugly color for directories in gnome- terminal?
Some of my folders are highlighted in green
What does the green highlighting means? How can I remove the highlight and make them look similar to others?
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How do I split a terminal into two "views" (or two parts) so I don't have to scroll up / down?
Nginx log is being generated real time with
watch -n 1 "tail -n 1000 nginx.log"
I want it to appear on the right side of the terminal. How can I make 2 or 3 screens? I have a very wide screen (...
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Terminal emulator left-click to open link
So I've been trying to get back to using Linux as my primary OS. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome 3. I've tried multiple terminal emulators, but they all seem to have a common failing: you need to ...
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What is the command to open a new tab in Terminator?
In Ubuntu terminal, the command to open a new tab of the terminal is
gnome-terminal --tab
What is the equivalent for Terminator?
I have tried
terminator --tab
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gnome-terminal -T
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terminator not starting when default python is python3.4 but works if it is python2.7
On Ubuntu 15.10 when changing the symlink /usr/bin/python from python2.7 to python3.4 then terminator won t start anymore.
Do you know what the problem could be and how to fix it?
Thank you :)
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keyboard short cut 'E' and 'O' of terminal emulator 'terminator'
I'm not sure this kind of question is acceptable here.
I'm thinking of trying terminator.(https://www.tecmint.com/terminator-a-linux-terminal-emulator-to-manage-multiple-terminal-windows/)
The hot key ...
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Set colors for terminator to terminal's
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04, I installed Terminator and noticed it has different colors than the standard terminal. The contrast is not high enough and I like the standard terminal colors.
So my ...
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Collapse Terminator Icons on Dash to Dock
It's unlikely that I am the only one experiencing this issue, so please feel free to mark this as a duplicate, but after an hour of googling this I am unable to find the issue; likely due to me not ...
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