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TERMINATOR(1) Manual for Terminator TERMINATOR(1)
terminator - multiple GNOME terminals in one window
terminator [options]
This manual page documents Terminator, a terminal emulator
application.
Terminator is a program that allows users to set up flexible
arrangements of GNOME terminals. It is aimed at those who normally
arrange lots of terminals near each other, but don’t want to use a
frame based window manager.
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --version
Show the version of the Terminator installation.
-m, -M, --maximise, --maximize
Start with a maximised window.
-f, --fullscreen
Start with a fullscreen window.
-b, --borderless
Instruct the window manager not to render borders/decorations
on the Terminator window (this works well with --maximise).
-H, --hidden
Hide the Terminator window by default. Its visibility can be
toggled with the hide_window keyboard shortcut
(Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A by default).
-T FORCEDTITLE, --title=FORCEDTITLE
Force the Terminator window to use a specific name rather than
updating it dynamically based on the wishes of the child
shell.
--geometry=GEOMETRY
Specify the preferred size and position of Terminator’s
window; see X(7).
-e COMMAND, --command=COMMAND
Run the specified command instead of the default shell or
profile specified command.
Note: if Terminator is launched as x-terminal-emulator -e
behaves like -x, and the longform becomes --execute2=COMMAND.
-x COMMAND [ARGS], --execute=COMMAND [ARGS]
Run the rest of the command line instead of the default shell
or profile specified command.
--working-directory=DIR
Set the terminal’s working directory.
-g FILE, --config=FILE
Use the specified file for configuration.
-r ROLE, --role=ROLE
Set a custom WM_WINDOW_ROLE property on the window.
-l LAYOUT, --layout=LAYOUT
Start Terminator with a specific layout. The argument here is
the name of a saved layout.
-s LAYOUT, --select-layout=LAYOUT
Open the layout launcher window instead of the normal
terminal.
-p, --profile=PROFILE
Use a different profile as the default.
-i, --icon=FORCEDICON
Set a custom icon for the window (by file or name)
-u, --no-dbus
Disable DBus.
-d, --debug
Enable debugging output (please use this when reporting bugs).
This can be specified twice to enable a built-in python
debugging server.
--debug-classes=DEBUG_CLASSES
If this is specified as a comma separated list, debugging
output will only be printed from the specified classes.
--debug-methods=DEBUG_METHODS
If this is specified as a comma separated list, debugging
output will only be printed from the specified functions. If
this is specified in addition to --debug-classes, only the
intersection of the two lists will be displayed.
--new-tab
If this is specified and Terminator is already running, DBus
will be used to spawn a new tab in the first Terminator
window.
--toggle-visibility
If this is specified and Terminator is already running, DBus
will be used to toggle Terminator window visibility. Usable
under Wayland to replace hide keyboad shortcut.
The following default keybindings can be used to control
Terminator. Most of these keybindings can be changed in the
Preferences.
F1
Launches the full HTML manual.
Creation & Destruction
The following items relate to creating and destroying terminals.
Ctrl+Shift+O
Split terminals Horizontally.
Ctrl+Shift+E
Split terminals Vertically.
Ctrl+Shift+T
Open new tab.
Ctrl+Shift+I
Open a new window.
(Note: unlike in previous releases, this window is part of the
same Terminator process.)
Super+I
Spawn a new Terminator process.
Alt+L
Open layout launcher.
Ctrl+Shift+W
Close the current terminal.
Ctrl+Shift+Q
Close the current window.
Navigation
The following items relate to moving between and around terminals.
Alt+Up
Move to the terminal above the current one.
Alt+Down
Move to the terminal below the current one.
Alt+Left
Move to the terminal left of the current one.
Alt+Right
Move to the terminal right of the current one.
Ctrl+PageDown
Move to next tab.
Ctrl+PageUp
Move to previous tab.
Ctrl+Shift+N or Ctrl+Tab
Move to the next terminal within the same tab.
Ctrl+Shift+P or Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Move to the previous terminal within the same tab.
Organisation
The following items relate to arranging and resizing terminals.
Ctrl+Shift+Right
Move parent dragbar right.
Ctrl+Shift+Left
Move parent dragbar left.
Ctrl+Shift+Up
Move parent dragbar up.
Ctrl+Shift+Down
Move parent dragbar down.
Super+R
Rotate terminals clockwise.
Super+Shift+R
Rotate terminals counter-clockwise.
Ctrl+Shift+PageDown
Swap tab position with next tab.
Ctrl+Shift+PageUp
Swap tab position with previous tab.
Drag and Drop
The layout can be modified by moving terminals with Drag and
Drop. To start dragging a terminal, click and hold on its
titlebar. Alternatively, hold down Ctrl, click and hold the
right mouse button. Then, **release Ctrl**. You can now drag
the terminal to the point in the layout you would like it to
be. The zone where the terminal would be inserted will be
highlighted.
Focus
The following items relate to helping to focus on a specific
terminal.
F11
Toggle window to fullscreen.
Ctrl+Shift+X
Toggle between showing all terminals and only showing the
current one (maximise).
Ctrl+Shift+Z
Toggle between showing all terminals and only showing a scaled
version of the current one (zoom).
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A
Hide the initial window. Note that this is a X11 global
binding, and can only be bound once. On Wayland use window
manager keyboard shortcuts to call terminator
--toggle-visibility.
Grouping & Broadcasting
The following items relate to grouping and broadcasting.
Super+T
Group all terminals in the current tab so that any input sent
to one of them goes to all of them.
Super+Shift+T
Remove grouping from all terminals in the current tab.
Super+G
Group all terminals so that any input sent to one of them goes
to all of them.
Super+Shift+G
Remove grouping from all terminals.
Alt+A
Broadcast to all terminals.
Alt+G
Broadcast to grouped terminals.
Alt+O
Broadcast off.
Miscellaneous
The following items relate to miscellaneous terminal related
functions.
Ctrl+Shift+C
Copy selected text to clipboard.
Ctrl+Shift+V
Paste clipboard text.
Ctrl+Shift+S
Toggle scrollbar.
Ctrl+Shift+F
Search within terminal scrollback.
Ctrl+Shift+R
Reset terminal state.
Ctrl+Shift+G
Reset terminal state and clear window.
Ctrl+Plus (+)
Increase font size.
Note: this may require you to press shift, depending on your
keyboard.
Ctrl+Minus (-)
Decrease font size.
Note: this may require you to press shift, depending on your
keyboard.
Ctrl+Zero (0)
Restore font size to original setting.
Ctrl+Alt+W
Rename window title.
Ctrl+Alt+A
Rename tab title.
Ctrl+Alt+X
Rename terminal title.
Super+1
Insert terminal number, i.e. 1 to 12.
Super+0
Insert padded terminal number, i.e. 01 to 12.
Terminator was written by Chris Jones <[email protected]> and
others.
This manual page was written by Chris Jones <[email protected]> and
others.
terminator_config(5)
This page is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you have
a bug report for this manual page, send it to
[email protected]. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that
was found in the repository was 2025-08-05.) If you discover any
rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page,
or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
mail to [email protected]
Terminator 2023-04-01 TERMINATOR(1)
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