Terminator
The Terminator was released way back in 1984. At the time, it was all quite far-fetched, but with our reliance on technology these days, real-life Skynet is probably only a couple of years away. As such, you could say that the Terminator movies have that unique quality of getting a little more relevant and frightening each time you watch them. Terminator 2: Judgement Day is by far in my opinion the best action film ever made and one of the best movies ever made, this film set the standard for how action films should be. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: Directed by Jonathan Mostow. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken. A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.
Terminator is an American media franchise created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd.The franchise encompasses a series of science fiction action films, comics, novels, and additional media, concerning a total war between Skynet's synthetic intelligence - a self-aware military machine network - and John Connor's Resistance forces comprising the survivors of the human race. Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Directed by James Cameron. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick. A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Sometimes it is not alwaysclear just how many little shortcuts and features there are in Terminator. Thismanual hopes to reduce the confusion.
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What is Terminator¶
At its simplest Terminator is a terminal emulator like xterm, gnome-terminal,konsole, etc. At its most complex it lets you fly... metaphorically at least.Take a look at the following list:
- Arrange terminals in a grid-like structure
- Tabs
- Drag and drop re-ordering of terminals
- Lots of keyboard shortcuts
- Save multiple layouts and profiles via GUI preferences editor
- Simultaneous typing to arbitrary groups of terminals
- Extensible through plugins
and lots more...
Contents:
- Getting Started
- Preferences Window
- Layouts and the Layout Launcher
- The Grouping Menu
- Plugins
- Advanced Usage
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Getting involved
Terminator is a terminal emulator which supports tabs and multiple resizable terminal panels in one window. It is based on GNOME Terminal.
Installation
terminator is available in the official repositories. Install terminator-gitAUR for the latest (trunk) version.
Configuration
See the man page or right click Terminator then click Preferences.
User-specific configurations can be found in ~/.config/terminator/config.
GTK customization
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Terminator supports tabs. Tab header height is sometimes considered too big. This can be fixed with gtk styling.From version 1.9 Terminator uses GTK 3, so that configuration can be done in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css.The items to customize are 'notebook tab', 'notebook tab button'. (note that this affects other gtk3 applications, too).
Example config:
Key commands
F11 Toggle fullscreen
Ctrl+Shift+o Split terminals horizontally
Ctrl+Shift+e Split terminals vertically
Ctrl+Shift+w Close current Panel
Ctrl+Shift+t Open new tab
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
Managing profiles
It is possible to start terminator with a random profile every time. To avoid unexpected behavior, you should start with a clean [profiles] section. You can copy the one from this file. It contains many well-known color schemes. Copy its contents to your config file, which is located in ~/.config/terminator/. Then, cat your list of profiles to a destination of your choice.
Terminator Dark Fate
When you add more profiles in the future and would like to have them included in the startup pool, you will have to reissue the command above. You can create an alias.
You must now modify Terminator's desktop file so that it selects a random profile from this list at startup.
Find the Exec line and comment it out with #. Add your own Exec line as follows.
Save the file and restart your desktop environment.
See also
- Terminator - Official site
- https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator - GitHub