by Chris Jones cmsj@tenshu.net and others.

The goal of this 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).

When you run Terminator, you will get a terminal in a window, just like almost every other terminal emulator available. There is also a titlebar which will update as shells/programs inside the terminal tell it to. Also on the titlebar is a small button that opens the grouping menu. From here you can put terminals into groups, which allows you to control multiple terminals simultaneously.

You can create more terminals by right clicking on one and choosing to split it vertically or horizontally. You can get rid of a terminal by right clicking on it and choosing Close. Ctrl-Shift-o and Ctrl-Shift-e will also effect the splitting. Also from the right mouse menu you can access Terminator's preferences window.

Ctrl-Shift-n and Ctrl-Shift-p will Shift focus to the next/previous terminal respectively, and Ctrl-Shift-w will close the current terminal and Ctrl-Shift-q the current window.

For more keyboard shortcuts and also the command line options, please see the manpage "terminator". For configuration options, see the manpage "terminator_config".

Ask questions at: https://answers.launchpad.net/terminator/ Please report all bugs to https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+filebug

Terminator began by shamelessly copying code from the vte-demo.py in the vte widget package, and the gedit terminal plugin (which was fantastically useful at figuring out vte's API).

vte-demo.py was not my code and is copyright its original author. While it does not contain any specific licensing information in it, the VTE package appears to be licenced under LGPL v2.

The gedit terminal plugin is part of the gedit-plugins package, which is licenced under GPL v2 or later.

I am thus licensing Terminator as GPL v2 only.

Cristian Grada provided the old icon under the same licence.

Cory Kontros provided the new icon under the CC-by-SA licence.

For other authorship information, see debian/copyright

Since terminator is keep on bzr, updates to this mirror are done with

$ git fast-import

bzr clone is keep on a separate dir. Once updated

$ bzr pull

A new import is made after remove last one

$ rm -rf .git/ 
$ git init
$ bzr fast-export --plain . | git fast-import

That git clone is imported on real repo

$ git remote add local file://<path-to-git-import>
$ git fetch local

Then last common commit is detected using

$ git log --date-order

 * local/master <new-import>
 *
 *
 |* master <changes to default project>
 |*
 *| <common-new-commit>
 |* <common-old-commit>
 *|
 |*

and rebasing with

$ git rebase <commom-new-commit> local/master --onto <common-old-commit>

resulting

    * (HEAD)
    *
    *
 *  | local/master <new-import>
 *  |
 *  |
 |* | master <changes to default project>
 |* |
 *|/ <common-new-commit>
 |* <common-old-commit>
 *|
 |*

but there's a problem with launchpad workflow. There are some commits for releases that have no email author and that's problematic on git. So this script must be applied to detect and fix that commits.

. res/replace-authors-without-email.sh