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Terminator is terminal emulator which, on one screen, is able to have multiple terminal sessions created by splitting the screen vertically and horizontally.

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Can Terminator be configured to automatically balance the split windows?

Coming from iTerm on the MacOS side of things, I'm used to having a pretty awesome terminal emulator. Terminator gets you most of the way there, save for one rather annoying behavior. In iTerm, when ...
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Save and restore terminal on reboot in Ubuntu 20.04

The answer is present for previous Ubuntu LTS versions here but this does not work for Ubuntu 20.04 since 20.04 LTS does not have the option to Create new and then Link to application from the desktop....
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How to use a key binding within shell script ? (Launch terminator in broadcast mode in background)

I currently use a small shell script to start a terminator window as a background process which has multiple splits specified with a layout. terminator --layout=My_layout & I want to execute a ...
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Awesome WM scratchpad with terminator

I've recently started using Awesome WM and trying to recreate a Yakuake-like experience I found the Scratchpad manager. I've tried several configurations to make it work with terminator, and so far ...
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Using Ubuntu Monospace with terminator on WSL

I am attempting to configure terminator to use Ubuntu Monospace under WSL. What's the proper font = setting the .config/terminator/config to accomplish this? I am running Xming as my X Server. Does ...
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Getting a transparent background with terminator -- so I can see the X11 root window behind, *not* other windows

I use Terminator 1.90-1 and Openbox 3.6.1 on a Debian system. Recently a new version of Terminator stopped supporting transparency, and I was advised to install a compositing program like xcompmgr or ...
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Why does online retro game emulation run extremely poorly on Microsoft Edge on my Desktop PC?

OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Processor: Intel(R) Core™ i7-10700T CPU @ 2.00GHz, 1992 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s) RAM: 16.0 GB Version: 22H2 I want to play the Sega CD version of The ...
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Terminal settings get corrupted

I work quite heavily in console, namely in terminator. At some point my terminal settings get "corrupted": The screen size becomes much smaller than the terminator "working pane" ...
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Terminator on KDE: Impossible to select text in terminal to copy it

Issue I have an issue a bit odd, I am using terminator for the terminal and somehow it's impossible to select text from the terminal with the mouse, meaning I can't copy anything from the terminal, ...
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How can I configure Linux Terminator to scroll back one page when I click on the scrollbar?

I'm using Terminator and I get it that I can use the keyboard to scroll or the mouse wheel. What I really want to do to click on the scrollbar anywhere above where the current scroll position is and ...
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Avoid blinking terminator cursor when window is not focused

When the terminator window is not focused, the cursor will still be blinking. Is this by design?! To me, that's optically distracting and I would like to disable it – but still have it blinking when ...
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Splitting a zoomed terminal in Terminator?

$ apt-cache show terminator Package: terminator Version: 0.97-4 A terminal window in terminator can be split horizontally or vertically, however if you zoom a terminal, it has to be restored before ...
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How to make Terminator terminal emulator transparent in dwm?

How to make window transparency for Terminator terminal emulator work with dwm? I've set background transparency inside Terminator settings. It works with ordinary Ubuntu 20.04 windows manager, but ...
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