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Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Terminator Terminal Emulator

There has been a lot of talk over the last month or so about Terminator. This week I have finally managed to pull my finger out and have a play with it. I had not bothered before now due to the fact that previous releases had depended on gnome-terminal; however, the latest release has dropped the gnome-terminal dependency and can now be configured via a simple config file located at ~/.config/terminator/config

I am totally impressed with Terminator. For anyone who has not heard [is there anyone?], the main advantage to using Terminator is its ability to split the screen into multiple terminals. The advantages this brings were made immediately obvious to me as I attempted to customise the look and feel of my new terminal window; in this screenshot I have the manual page open for terminator_config while editing my new config file. Good stuff.

The latests 0.9 release can be grabbed from the PPA for Terminator on Launchpad.

Tagged with: software, terminator, ubuntu

5 Responses to “Terminator Terminal Emulator”

  1. Stas wrote, Thursday, July 10th, 2008

    Great article Philip, I must say I didn't payed attention to it until you didn't wrote about it. And what's the most interesting, is that I'm loving it already :)

    Thanks for the tip!

    P.S.: What about including it in the release version of CBL 8.04.02?

  2. Chris Jones wrote, Thursday, July 10th, 2008

    Thanks very much for your kind words about Terminator :)

    Please let us know if there are important features we are missing - our Launchpad bug page (https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/) is a perfect place to file wishlist bugs.

  3. Philip wrote, Thursday, July 10th, 2008

    @Stas: Sounds like a plan, see my recent mailing list post. I have already moved the latest version into the repository :)

    @Chris: No problem and will do, thank you for the great software.

  4. Kai Grossjohann wrote, Sunday, July 13th, 2008

    I would like to point out two kinds of related applications.

    The first is dtvm, which adds tiled terminals inside a terminal. So gnome-terminal plus dtvm would be approximately equal to Terminator.

    The second is tiling window managers, which apply the concept in Terminator to all windows, not just terminal sessions. Tiling window managers I know: larswm (old), Ion (old but still maintained I think), wmii, dwm, xmonad, awesome.

  5. Philip wrote, Sunday, July 13th, 2008

    @Kai Grossjohann: Thank you for the useful info. Currently, I am quite happy with my window manager of choice, Openbox, but I will look into the alternatives you have mentioned. Thanks again.

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