GNOME Terminator

GNOME Terminator is an open-source terminal emulator for GNU/Linux programmed in Python. 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 is not a fork of GNOME Terminal (this last is written in C), It is a development from scratch of Chris Jones, entirely in Python (based on PyGObject to interact with the desktop environment and Python VTE providing a GUI component terminal), but much of the behavior of Terminator is based on GNOME Terminal[1].. Terminator began by copying code from the vte-demo.py in the vte widget package, and the gedit terminal plugin (which was useful for authors at figuring out vte's API).

GNOME Terminator
Screenshot of the GNOME Terminator
Repository
Written inPython
Operating systemLinux and Unix-like
TypeTerminal Emulator
LicenseGNU General Public License, version 2
Websitegnome-terminator.org
This article is about the Python terminal emulator based on GNOME Terminal. It is not to be confused with Terminator, another similarly-named terminal emulator.
Preferences screen: Global tab
Preferences screen: Profile tab

In July 2013, Steve Boddy is the successor to Jones and takes the lead of the project.

The support GTK3+ starts as soon as the end of 2012. The first version supporting GTK3+ is published by the end of 2016.

In April of 2020 the project started moving to GitHub[2], as a fork, due to the lack of activity in Launchpad[3].

Features[4]:

  • Arrange terminals in a grid-like structure
  • Tabs
  • Drag and drop re-ordering of terminals
  • Lots of keyboard shortcuts
  • Save multiple layouts and profiles via GUI preferences editor
  • Simultaneous typing to arbitrary groups of terminals
  • Extensible through plugins
  1. Steve, Boddy. "Introduction blog post from the author". Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  2. 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.
  3. "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.
  4. "Welcome to Terminator's documentation! — Terminator 2.0 alpha documentation". terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
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