How can I select all the text in a Terminator terminal? Ctrl-Shift-A does not work.
8 Answers
I don't have the menu bar, nor the option to show it. So I have this workaround:
- Shift + Home
- Select the first line
- Shift + End
- Shift + click on the last character
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2I would have never figured out the
shift + click
part. Thanks you! Mar 11, 2022 at 23:17 -
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1The neat thing is that after clicking the first character or line you can drag the scroll bar with your mouse, it doesn't reset the selection. So even if there's a million lines you can still select and copy all of them quickly. And you can select from the bottom to the top, not jut top to bottom. Feb 17, 2023 at 17:51
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I needed this to copy a text file from a machine behind a complicated VPN where I can't set a remote copy. Thanks for this solution, this works like a charm ! :)– Kyron2 days ago
The quickest way to select all / select specific text in Gnome Terminator:
- Click at the start of the text you want to select
- Scroll the window to the end of the text you want select
- Shift + click the end of your selection
- All text between your first click and your last Shift + click is now selected
- Then you can Ctrl + Shift + C your selection out of there
It's not a keyboard shortcut, but it's a lot faster than click-and-drag to select text, that's for sure.
Your select all is disabled by default.
- Go to Menu->Preferences->Shortcuts
- From Edit selection choose "Select All"
- Then to assign press Ctrl+Shift+A
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2I am surprised built-in solution doesn't get more recognition. It works for me in Gnome Terminal 3.36.2 (in Ubuntu 20.04.02 LTS). Is this a recent addition to Gnome Terminal? May 12, 2021 at 19:35
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To do this, with my default settings (U21.04, 3.38.1): 2. In Edit selection, doubleclick "Select All". Singleclick just hangs there– Joe KulJan 10, 2022 at 13:33
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This only copies one screenful of the output, not all of it. Not a solution at all. Feb 17, 2023 at 17:49
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@Violet-Giraffe This procedure is used to "enable" the select all command, ie. Control+shift+a . So follow the above procedure to "ENABLE" the "DISABLED" command. Feb 18, 2023 at 18:10
I had the same goal and modified Thierry Ds copyall-Terminator-Plugin to be just a select-all.
Install and activation:
- copy selectall.py into /usr/share/terminator/terminatorlib/plugins/
- restart terminator to discover the new plugin
- in terminator:
- right-click->Preferences
- switch to Plugins tab
- select SelectAll
- click Close
Now you can Select-All by: right-click->Select all
Perhaps I should add a shortcut as well.
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Is there a way to attach a keyboard shortcut to plugin actions? Struggling to find documentation Jun 23, 2019 at 3:04
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From what I've seen at first sight, I don't think that is currently possible. Jun 23, 2019 at 6:41
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2@EnnoGröper You have mixed tabs and spaces in
selectall.py
. Specifically, beforeterminal.vte.select_all()
line you have a tab instead of spaces. May 31, 2020 at 15:49 -
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No Shortcut, use Mouse: click on Menu -> Select All
Only true for Program: Terminal
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3There is no Menu Bar in my Terminator window. In the Context/Right-Click Menu only Copy and Paste is available– bmmNov 12, 2015 at 13:34
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- Right click at terminal
- In menu check: Show menubar
- In the menubar: Edit->Select All
- Right click at terminal: Copy
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This process copies ONLY current "terminal" page.– user580382Jun 3, 2019 at 0:47
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(This depends on terminal/distro - what worked for me with huge output):
start selecting with mouse and then press PgUp/PgDn