Terminator has a built-in search (ctrl-shift-f - default keybinding), but it doesn't highlight the found text, which makes it fairly useless.

This bug is already reported in launchpad (#271487) back in 2008.

Sadly the old team of Terminator have given up maintaining the project, there hasn't been any activity on Launchpad for years now.

As a user and the current maintainer of the package in Debian I have great interest in keeping the project alive.

This GitHub organization will be the new home for Terminator.

If you have contributed to terminator in the past, or are only a user who would like to contribute.

This organization on GitHub was started to give Terminator a new home, I think many user are still using it, and want to keep it.

Any help is appreciated!

Also see:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1849375 (others talking about forking)
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1870202 (my info)

Catching up with the old team

If you have any contact or relation to the "old" maintainers of Terminator, please contact me or them to get in touch.

We need to make this proper, and inform the users. At the moment I don't have any access to the Launchpad projects apart from filing and commenting on bugs.

How can you help?

• Talk to me in this issue, or [email protected]
• Join the new chat on https://gitter.im/gnome-terminator/community
• Open issues / port open issues from Launchpad
  • Make sure to link between GitHub and Launchpad in both directions
• Port your branches and code changes as Pull Requests to this repository

Or: Any other way you can think of!

Joining the team

I want people to join this team, to help bringing Terminator to a better shape.

If you were a contributor to Terminator and I found your GitHub account, you should have received an invite!

When grouping terminals and broadcasting on them, the keys typed on the focused one are keyed twice on the other terminals.

Lets say, if I type ls on the main terminal, I get llss on the others on the group. The same happens when setting broadcast to all,

Terminator v 1.91 on Opensuse Leap 15.1

I am sick of ibus breaking every single time we issue a new release, so as of now, I've gone through the code and removed all of the workarounds that we have put in to try and get around issues in ibus, and GTK Input Methods in general.

The code as it stands should work, I'm going to mention a bunch of people in this PR and ask them to beta test this change.

Closes #495

First, I had to study how bash completion works. To do so, I simply studied the scripts used by other applications. Then, I used sed and regex in order to scrape the options from terminator --help. (I might have nightmares about regex...)

In order to make the completion work, I put a symlink to the new file in /usr/share/bash-completion/completions named terminator. I think this is something the package maintainers have to care about.

Sadly, each shell uses a different type of completion script. This means that this one in particular will only work on bash.

In order to get the options, terminator --help has to be run, so there is a very little overhead because python has to start.

Edit: the folder where the scripts are put might be different depending on the distro. On Debian it's the one I wrote.

Describe the bug Upgraded 21.10 to 22.04, input is doubled on broadcast windows.

To Reproduce Open Terminator, split horizontally, broadcast all, press a key. One shows up in the foreground window, two shows up in the split window.

Expected behavior The same number of characters are broadcast as entered.

Desktop:

• Ubuntu
• 22.04
• X11

Hi I'm getting this:

λ  ~  terminator                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1   10:56:06  
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/terminator", line 48, in <module>
    import terminatorlib.optionparse
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/terminatorlib/optionparse.py", line 24, in <module>
    from . import config
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/terminatorlib/config.py", line 76, in <module>
    from validate import Validator
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'validate'

Here is my version of python:

Python 3.9.1

Also when I try to install the validate module:

 λ  ~  pip install validate                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  10:59:39  
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting validate
  Using cached validate-1.0.1.tar.gz (32 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-0tvxkv2x/validate/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-0tvxkv2x/validate/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-6pyjqa9s
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-0tvxkv2x/validate/
    Complete output (8 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-0tvxkv2x/validate/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
        from configobj import __version__ as VERSION
      File "/tmp/pip-install-0tvxkv2x/validate/configobj.py", line 1632
        except Exception, e:
                        ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

It looks like it's Python 3.9.1 not compatible?

After I have upgraded from terminator-1.92-6.fc32.noarch to terminator-2.0.1-1.fc32.noarch, the keybindings stopped working. When using some of them like Shift+Ctrl+T to open a new tab, is displayed a red bulb, like it was signaling an error, but does not display any message. I have checked in the journalctl while performing the operations and I don't see any error.

Hi!

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 and Terminator 1.91. In Ubuntu 20.04, there are spaces between tabs and borders of the main window.

Could you please advise if there is some way to remove these spaces?

I don't see such problem in Ubuntu 18.04.

• OS or Linux Distribution: Ubuntu
• Version: 20.04

Describe the bug

When having multiple tabs open, the scrollbar is hidden on the currently opened tab and the terminal isn't in focus, the text in it isn't rendered.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open Terminator
2. Open another tab
3. Right-click and deselect "Show scrollbar"
4. Un-focus it, meaning click anywhere that isn't on the terminal

Expected behavior

When you click out of Terminator (when it isn't in focus), in all cases, it should still show the text in it.

Screenshots

Here I show that it works as expected in all cases, except when the scroll bar is hidden and a tab is opened

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS or Linux Distribution: Fedora 33 (Cinnamon)
• Terminator Version: 2.1.0

Additional context

[global_config]
  focus = system
  handle_size = 1
  sticky = True
  suppress_multiple_term_dialog = True
[keybindings]
[profiles]
  [[default]]
    audible_bell = True
    background_color = "#282828"
    background_darkness = 0.95
    cursor_color = "#aaaaaa"
    font = MesloLGS NF 12
    foreground_color = "#ebdbb2"
    show_titlebar = False
    scrollback_infinite = True
    palette = "#282828:#cc241d:#98971a:#d79921:#458588:#b16286:#689d6a:#a89984:#928374:#fb4934:#b8bb26:#fabd2f:#83a598:#d3869b:#8ec07c:#ebdbb2"
    use_system_font = False
    background_image = /home/kamen/Desktop/2020-12-03_16-49.png
[layouts]
  [[default]]
    [[[window0]]]
      type = Window
      parent = ""
    [[[child1]]]
      type = Terminal
      parent = window0
      profile = default
[plugins]

$ cat /etc/*release* | grep -E 'DESC|VER.*ID'
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"

Already tried:

1. sudo apt -y purge terminator && sudo apt -y install terminator -> Same result
2. sudo apt -y purge terminator && git clone https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator.git && {install deps}&& {compile & install}
3. Tried running with another older Python version (normally it uses 3.8), but that produced symbol missing.

Same result after all attempts to fix

Issue started happening today with no real clear change in the setup other then perhaps creating some groups and then closing/re-opening terminator.

Grabbing the window by the title bar (mouse left-click + drag) seems to make the issue produce immediately.

Also, when it crashes, the process keeps running though the terminal window itself is gone. No output in dmesg and not sure where else to look for logs. Killing the process (-9) and re-opening has no effect, issues reproduces again and again after a few seconds.

Please assist, I use terminator very often for work.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Hi, would it be possible to have a flag/config preference to disable detachable tabs introduced in #494? I often rearrange my tabs, and find myself accidentally detaching instead with the latest update.

Describe the solution you'd like Option in preferences to disable detachable tab behaviour.

Strangely, I attempted to revert the commits locally and add a preference, but the tabs seemed to remain detachable.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When I rename a tab (edit_tab_title in key bindings), the focus is lost and I need to use the mouse to refocus the terminal.

Describe the solution you'd like I expect the renamed tab to be focused after a renaming (this would avoid using the mouse to refocus it).

Describe alternatives you've considered I dont know of any alternative other than to use the mouse to re-focus the terminal

Additional context os - ArchLinux terminator version - 2.1.2

Describe the bug After recent update to terminator 2.1.2 there seems to be multiple issues in the way the application interacts with ibus. Those did not occur in version 2.1.1 (2.1.1-3 in Arch). The issues disappear if ibus is not running.

Seemingly at random, the terminal gets unusable, not registering most keyboard clicks (they seem to be detected as there is an Xlib error at each key press, regardless if it is shown by terminator or not) and slowing down to a crawl (I need to hold a button for around one second for a character to appear on screen and then they are appearing consecutively, making entry of single character almost impossible considering the same behavior is seen on most keyboard buttons like backspace). Interestingly enough, very often I have noticed that while the main Enter/Return key is affected, Enter/Return key on the numerical keypad can be unaffected.

While the only remedy I have found at the moment is killing ibus, that action may occasionally cause terminator to either hang indefinitely (at this point it becomes impossible to spawn new terminator sessions) or even crash, however most often it just causes terminator to disconnect from the ibus session (however even after restarting ibus at this point it is no longer possible to use the mozc IME). The hang/crash seems to occur much more often if there at least two windows of terminator running at the same time. The crash may occur even if ibus was disconnected before and thus no longer available under the terminator session.

As a way to verify if the issue lies within terminator (as logs are mentioning errors in underlying libraries) I re-installed version 2.1.1 and while I cannot verify that the issues are not occurring for sure (as they are random), terminator's behavior is totally different, for example there is no exception/disconnection on ibus exit and no Xlib errors on each key press (though there is an IBUS-WARNING instead).

I have attached traces from the crash and, for comparison, correct behavior under 2.1.1. The disconnection is at lines 609-612 of the log:

/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gtk.py:1689: Warning: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
  return _Gtk_main(*args, **kwargs)
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gtk.py:1689: Warning: g_signal_handler_disconnect: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
  return _Gtk_main(*args, **kwargs)

And the crash at the end of the attached file:

(terminator:4791): Gdk-WARNING **: 11:44:57.964: The program 'terminator' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 22798 error_code 3 request_code 25 (core protocol) minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

I tried to be as thorough as possible, but please let me know if more information is needed.

To Reproduce

• Slowdown: steps to reproduce not known, occurs seemingly at random
• Hang/Crash (not possible to reproduce reliably):
  1. Start terminator with ibus running
  2. Close ibus from system tray

Expected behavior Terminator should work correctly (no slowdowns or crashes) in combination with ibus. There seems to be a very high probability that this is actually a regression as compared to version 2.1.1.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS or Linux Distribution: Arch Linux
• Version: Updated up to 2022-12-19
• Display Technology: X11
• Window Manager: i3
• Terminator version: 2.1.2 (2.1.2-2 in Arch)

Additional context I don't think it is relevant to the issue, but for the sake of completeness, I'm using ibus-mozc as one of the input methods. If ibus is stopped, Xlib errors stop appearing in the logs under terminator version 2.1.2.

Attachments terminator_crash_on_ibus_exit.log terminator_2.1.1.log

How to set window size in symbols, not in pixels?

In Kitty term i can write 30c which means 30 characters.

Is there something similar in the Terminator config?

Hi, I have been using terminator for years and I am very happy. I would like to know if there is already a functionality when one has the hide_windows option activated that reopens on the monitor where you have the mouse. In guake it works very well. Thanks Regards