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NAME
~/.config/terminator/config - the config file for Terminator terminal
emulator.
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the Terminator config file.
terminator/config is an optional file to configure the terminator
terminal emulator. It is used to control options not in gnome-terminal
gconf profiles, or override gconf settings.
FILE LOCATION
Normally the config file will be ~/.config/terminator/config, but it
may be overridden with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (in which case it will be
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/terminator/config)
FILE FORMAT
This is what a Terminator config file should look like:
# This is a comment
font = Fixed 10
background_color = #000000
foreground_color = "#FFFFFF" #Another comment. Quotes can be used for
any value
scrollback_lines = ’500’ #More comment. Single quotes are valid too
cursor_blink = True
custom_command = "echo \"foo#bar\"" #Final comment - this will work
as expected.
[keybindings]
full_screen = <Ctrl><Shift>F11
OPTIONS
These are the options Terminator currently supports:
allow_bold (boolean)
If true, allow applications in the terminal to make text
boldface. Default value: True
enable_real_transparency (boolean)
If true, Terminator will try to use real transparency if
possible. Default value: False
NOTE: To enable transparency you should also see the background_type
and background_darkness settings below.
silent_bell (boolean)
If true, don’t make a noise when applications send the escape
sequence for the terminal bell. Flash the terminal instead.
Default value: True
force_no_bell (boolean)
If true, don’t make a noise or flash. All terminal bells will be
ignored. Default value: False
use_theme_colors
If true, ignore the configured colours and use values from the
theme instead. Default value: False
background_color
Default colour of terminal background, as a colour specification
(can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name such as "red").
Note: You may need to set use_theme_colors=False to force this
setting to take effect. Default value: #000000
background_darkness
A value between 0.0 and 1.0 indicating how much to darken the
background image. 0.0 means no darkness, 1.0 means fully dark.
If the terminal is set to transparent, this setting controls how
transparent it is. 0.0 means fully transparent, 1.0 means fully
opaque. Default value: 0.5
background_type
Type of terminal background. May be "solid" for a solid colour,
"image" for an image, or "transparent" for full transparency in
compositing window managers, otherwise pseudo transparency.
Default value: solid
background_image
Path to an image file to be used for the background of
terminals. Default value: Nothing
backspace_binding
Sets what code the backspace key generates. Possible values are
"ascii-del" for the ASCII DEL character, "control-h" for
Control-H (AKA the ASCII BS character), "escape-sequence" for
the escape sequence typically bound to backspace or delete.
"ascii-del" is normally considered the correct setting for the
Backspace key. Default value: ascii-del
delete_binding
Sets what code the delete key generates. Possible values are
"ascii-del" for the ASCII DEL character, "control-h" for
Control-H (AKA the ASCII BS character), "escape-sequence" for
the escape sequence typically bound to backspace or delete.
"escape-sequence" is normally considered the correct setting for
the Delete key. Default value: escape-sequence
cursor_blink (boolean)
Controls if the cursor blinks. Default value: True
emulation
Sets what type of terminal should be emulated. Default value:
xterm
font An Pango font name. Examples are "Sans 12" or "Monospace Bold
14". Default value: Mono 8
foreground_color
Default colour of text in the terminal, as a colour
specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name
such as "red"). Note: You may need to set use_theme_colors=False
to force this setting to take effect. Default value: #AAAAAA
scrollbar_position
Where to put the terminal scrollbar. Possibilities are "left",
"right", and "disabled". Default value: right
titlebars
If true, a titlebar will be drawn for each terminal which shows
the current title of that terminal. Default value: True
titletips
If true, a tooltip will be available for each terminal which
shows the current title of that terminal. Default value: False
scroll_background (boolean)
If true, scroll the background image with the foreground text;
if false, keep the image in a fixed position and scroll the text
above it. Default value: True
scroll_on_keystroke (boolean)
If true, pressing a key jumps the scrollbar to the bottom.
Default value: True
scroll_on_output (boolean)
If true, whenever there’s new output the terminal will scroll to
the bottom. Default value: True
scrollback_lines
Number of scrollback lines to keep around. You can scroll back
in the terminal by this number of lines; lines that don’t fit in
the scrollback are discarded. Be careful with this setting; it’s
the primary factor in determining how much memory the terminal
will use. Default value: 500
focus Sets what type of mouse events should determine terminal focus.
Can be "sloppy" or "click". "mouse" is also interpreted as
"sloppy". Default value: click
focus_on_close
Sets which terminal should get the focus when another terminal
is closed. Values can be "prev", "next" or "auto". Using
"auto", if the closed terminal is within a splitted window, the
focus will be on the sibling terminal rather than another tab.
Default value: auto
exit_action
Possible values are "close" to close the terminal, and "restart"
to restart the command. Default value: close
palette
Terminals have a 16-colour palette that applications inside the
terminal can use. This is that palette, in the form of a colon-
separated list of colour names. Colour names should be in hex
format e.g. "#FF00FF". Default value:
#000000000000:#CDCD00000000:#0000CDCD0000:#CDCDCDCD0000:#30BF30BFA38E:#A53C212FA53C:#0000CDCDCDCD:#FAFAEBEBD7D7:#404040404040:#FFFF00000000:#0000FFFF0000:#FFFFFFFF0000:#00000000FFFF:#FFFF0000FFFF:#0000FFFFFFFF:#FFFFFFFFFFFF
word_chars
When selecting text by word, sequences of these characters are
considered single words. Ranges can be given as "A-Z". Literal
hyphen (not expressing a range) should be the first character
given. Default value: -A-Za-z0-9,./?%&#:_
mouse_autohide (boolean)
Controls whether the mouse cursor should be hidden while typing.
Default value: True
use_custom_command (boolean)
If True, the value of custom_command will be used instead of the
default shell. Default value: False
custom_command
Command to execute instead of the default shell, if
use_custom_command is set to True. Default value: Nothing
http_proxy
URL of an HTTP proxy to use, e.g. http://proxy.lan:3128/ Default
value: Nothing
encoding
Character set to use for the terminal. Default value: UTF-8
fullscreen (boolean)
Controls whether the Terminator window will be started in
fullscreen mode Default value: False
maximise (boolean)
Controls whether the Terminator window will be started maximised
Default value: False
borderless (boolean)
Controls whether the Terminator window will be started without
window borders Default value: False
handle_size
Controls the width of the separator between terminals. Anything
outside the range 0-5 (inclusive) will be ignored and use your
default theme value. Default value: -1
f11_modifier (boolean)
DEPRECATED. This option will disappear by 1.0. See [keybindings]
instead. If this is set to True, the fullscreen keyboard
shortcut changes from F11 (like many GNOME apps) to Ctrl-Shift-
F11 (useful if you use terminal applications which expect to
receive F11. Default value: False
cycle_term_tab (boolean)
If this is set to True, when switching to the next/previous
term, Terminator will cycle within the same tab. Ctrl-
PageUp/PageDown can then be used to move from one tab to the
other one. Default value: True
close_button_on_tab (boolean)
If set to True, tabs will have a close button on them. Default
value: True
tab_position
Defines where tabs are placed. Can be any of: top, left, right,
bottom. Default value: top
extreme_tabs (boolean)
If set to True, tabs can be created within other tabs. Be warned
that this can be very confusing and hard to use. Default value:
False
copy_on_selection (boolean)
If set to True, text selections will be automatically copied to
the clipboard, in addition to being made the Primary selection.
Default value: False
try_posix_regexp (boolean)
If set to True, URL matching regexps will try to use POSIX style
first, and fall back on GNU style on failure. If you are on
Linux but URL matches don’t work, try setting this to True. If
you are not on Linux, but you get VTE warnings on startup saying
"Error compiling regular expression", set this to False to
silence them (they are otherwise harmless). Default value:
False on Linux, True otherwise.
KEYBINDINGS
The following actions can have their keyboard shortcut configured in
the config file in a section labelled [keybindings]:
zoom_in
Make font one unit larger. Default value: <Ctrl>plus
zoom_out
Make font one unit smaller. Default value: <Ctrl>minus
zoom_normal
Return font to pre-configured size. Default value: <Ctrl>0
new_tab
Open a new tab. Default value: <Ctrl><Shift>T
new_root_tab
Open a new tab at the root of the window (only useful if you use
the extreme_tabs option). Default value: <Ctrl><Shift><Alt>T
go_next
Move cursor focus to the next tab. Default values:
<Ctrl><Shift>N and <Ctrl>Tab
go_prev
Move cursor focus to the previous tab. Default values:
<Ctrl><Shift>P and <Ctrl><Shift>Tab
go_up Move cursor focus to the terminal above. Default value: <Alt>Up
go_down
Move cursor focus to the terminal below. Default value:
<Alt>Down
go_left
Move cursor focus to the terminal to the left. Default value:
<Alt>Left
go_right
Move cursor focus to the terminal to the right. Default value:
<Alt>Right
split_horiz
Split the current terminal horizontally. Default value:
<Ctrl><Shift>O
split_vert
Split the current terminal vertically. Default value:
<Ctrl><Shift>E
close_term
Close the current terminal. Default value: <Ctrl><Shift>W
copy Copy the currently selected text to the clipboard. Default
value: <Ctrl><Shift>C
paste Paste the current contents of the clipboard. Default value:
<Ctrl><Shift>V
toggle_scrollbar
Show/Hide the scrollbar. Default value: <Ctrl><Shift>S
search Search for text in the terminal scrollback history. Default
value: <Ctrl><Shift>F
close_window
Quit Terminator. Default value: <Ctrl><Shift>Q
resize_up
Move the parent dragbar upwards. Default value: <Ctrl><Shift>Up
resize_down
Move the parent dragbar downwards. Default value:
<Ctrl><Shift>Down
resize_left
Move the parent dragbar left. Default value: <Ctrl><Shift>Left
resize_right
Move the parent dragbar right. Default value:
<Ctrl><Shift>Right
move_tab_right
Swap the current tab with the one to its right. Default value:
<Ctrl><Shift>Page_Down
move_tab_left
Swap the current tab with the one to its left. Default value:
<Ctrl><Shift>Page_Up
toggle_zoom
Zoom/Unzoom the current terminal to fill the window. Default
value: <Ctrl><Shift>X
scaled_zoom
Zoom/Unzoom the current terminal to fill the window, and scale
its font. Default value: <Ctrl><Shift>Z
next_tab
Move to the next tab. Default value: <Ctrl>Page_Down
prev_tab
Move to the previous tab. Default value: <Ctrl>Page_Up
full_screen
Toggle the window to a fullscreen window. Default value: F11
reset Reset the terminal state. Default value: <Ctrl><Shift>R
reset_clear
Reset the terminal state and clear the terminal window. Default
value: <Ctrl><Shift>G
SEE ALSO
gnome-terminal(1)
Nicolas Valcarcel <nvalcarcel@ubuFeb.22,>2008 TERMINATOR_CONFIG(5)