Terminator - Multiple GNOME terminals in one window
Posted by admin on March 12th, 2008 
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At the moment, Terminator is available for Ubuntu Hardy and you can install from source in Feisty,Gutsy etc
You can download Terminator source code from here this is only for who is using ubuntu 7.10 and below version users
If you are using hardy use the following command to install
sudo aptitude install terminator
Install terminator in ubuntu gutsy,feisty etc
Download source code from here .Now you have terminator_0.8.1.tar.gz file extract this file using the following command
tar xzvf terminator_0.8.1.tar.gz
Now you have terminator-0.8.1 directory
cd terminator-0.8.1
Install termonator using the following command
sudo ./setup.py install
This will complete the installation
Using Terminator
Now if you want to open terminator use the following command from your terminal
terminator
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen
Now if you want to split your views you need to Right-Clicking on a terminal view you should see similar to the following options
After splitting your terminal you can see similar to the following screen
Using your multi view terminals in action
You can use the following keys to split your terminal views
Ctrl-Shift-E: will split the view vertically.
Ctrl-Shift-O: will split the view horizontally.
Ctrl-Shift-P: will focus be active on the previous view.
Ctrl-Shift-N: will focus be active on the next view.
Ctrl-Shift-W: will close the view where the focus is on.
Ctrl-Shift-Q: will exit terminator.
F11: will make terminator go fullscreen.
July 4th, 2008 at 6:41 am
That is so very, very cool and useful. Thanks for the tutorial. I’ll never look at a boring old terminal window the same way again.
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
good howto. i looked at terminator and could not figure out the obvious (how to split terminal screens) until your article.
how did you get transparency working? probably just as obvious.
thanks for a useful entry.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
@paul
try this guide for transparent terminal
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
That transparency writeup will make a standard Gnome terminal window transparent, but not a Terminator window. Would you kindly be more specific?
Thanks
November 12th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Apparently it was disabled in 0.8.1 due to bug, since 8.10 release of Ubuntu comes with 0.11 release of Terminator, transparency can be enabled back. I think they just forgot to remove the default check. You can enable it back by adding this to ~/.config/terminator/config
enable_real_transparency=True
Hope this helps.
Rizwan
November 21st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I would like to see session manager for terminator in future releases.
I split one terminal into four different terminals. On each terminal I am in different paths.
I would like to the save the current state/session.
Whenever I want to resume, I would like to “File->Open saved sessions” and it should put me into the saved state.