Terminator – A Terminal Emulator to Manage Multiple Terminal Windows on Linux

 

                       Originally created and developed for a long time by Chris Jones, 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).

 

Much of the behaviour of Terminator is based on GNOME Terminal, and we are adding more features from that as time goes by, but we also want to extend out in different directions with useful features for sysadmins and other users. If you have any suggestions, please file wishlist bugs! (see below for the address)

Features:

• Arrange terminals in a grid
• 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
• and lots more...

Installation

Linux Distributions

Ubuntu

Click here: Install Terminator This may give you an older version, so to install the very latest Terminator:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install terminator

Thanks to Nicolas Valcarcel for his fantastic work in pushing Terminator into Debian and Ubuntu

If you're brave and prepared to accept the possibility of breakage, you could try the nightlies. Just change the first line above to:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator/nightly

I try not to merge things that will cause problems, but obviously there's a risk with running this. On the plus side you get the latest fixes and additions. On the negative side if you find an issue you are legally obliged (joke!) to raise a bug.

Debian

If you are running Debian sid then you should find the latest version, although it may be slightly behind the current release.

Fedora

To install Terminator in Fedora, run (as root):

yum install terminator

Foresight

To install Terminator in Foresight Linux, you can either use the Add/Remove program (PackageKit), or the following command:

sudo conary update terminator

OpenSuSE

To install Terminator in OpenSuSE, run (as root):

zypper install terminator

Mandriva

If you wish to install Terminator on Mandriva Linux, make sure that the package management system is configured to download packages from Mandriva's contrib/release and contrib/backports repositories; then run (as root):

urpmi terminator

RHEL

Packages for RHEL5 and 6 are in RPMForge. Instructions for adding this repository are available here. After you've done that, you can just run (as root):

yum install terminator

Slackware

There is a SlackBuild for Terminator available here. For more information on using SlackBuilds, see the HowTo.

FreeBSD

To install Terminator in FreeBSD, run one of the following lines (as root):

cd /usr/ports/x11/terminator && make install cleanportinstall terminator
pkg_add -r terminator

See this page for more information.

NetBSD

To install Terminator in NetBSD, run (as root):

pkgin install py-terminator

 See this page for more information.

Mac OS X

To install Terminator on Mac OS X you will need to be using the Fink project, and have it configured to allow unstable software. With those requirements satisfied, in a terminal run:

fink install terminator

Source

The latest version can be downloaded from Launchpad

Older versions can be found here.

Development

The development branch is published on Launchpad Code.

The main Launchpad page for Terminator is here

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