GNOME Terminator

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GNOME Terminator
Stable release
2.1.4 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 30 May 2024;5 months ago (30 May 2024)
Repository
Written in Python
Operating system Linux and Unix-like
Type Terminal Emulator
License GNU General Public License, version 2.0
Website gnome-terminator.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Terminator sample.png
On Gentoo Linux, installing software
Preferences screen: Global tab Gnome-terminator--preferences--global.png
Preferences screen: Global tab
Preferences screen: Profile tab Gnome-terminator--preferences--profiles.png
Preferences screen: Profile tab

GNOME Terminator is a free and open-source terminal emulator for Linux programmed in Python, licensed under GPL-2.0-only. 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 packages exist for Arch, [2] Debian/Ubuntu, [3] Fedora, [4] OpenSUSE, [5] Gentoo, [6] Snap, [7] FreeBSD, [8] OpenBSD. [9] In 2017 took second place in voting at opensource.com, after Gnome Terminal. [10]

Contents

History

Terminator is not a fork of GNOME Terminal (which is written in C); instead, it was developed from scratch by Chris Jones, entirely in Python (based on PyGObject to interact with the desktop environment and Python VTE providing the GUI component), but much of the behavior of Terminator is based on GNOME Terminal. [11] Terminator began from vte-demo.py in VTE and the gedit terminal plugin, which was useful to the authors for figuring out VTE's API.

In July 2013, Steve Boddy succeeded Jones and took the lead of the project.

GTK3+ support started near the end of 2012. The first version supporting GTK3+ was published by the end of 2016.

In April 2020 the project was forked to GitHub due to a lack of activity on Launchpad. [12] [13]

Features

The following features are available in the 2.x release of Terminator. [14]

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References

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  2. ↑ "AUR (en) - terminator-bzr". aur.archlinux.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
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  5. ↑ "openSUSE Software". software.opensuse.org. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
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  11. ↑ Steve, Boddy. "Introduction blog post from the author" . Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  12. ↑ 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.
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