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This is a project to produce an efficient way of filling a large area of screen space with terminals. This is done by splitting the window into a resizeable grid of terminals. As such, you can produce a very flexible arrangements of terminals for different tasks.

At the moment, Terminator is available for Ubuntu Hardy and you can install from source in Feisty,Gutsy etc

You can download Terminator source code from here this is only for who is using ubuntu 7.10 and below version users

If you are using hardy use the following command to install

sudo aptitude install terminator

Install terminator in ubuntu gutsy,feisty etc

Download source code from here .Now you have terminator_0.8.1.tar.gz file extract this file using the following command

tar xzvf terminator_0.8.1.tar.gz

Now you have terminator-0.8.1 directory

cd terminator-0.8.1

Install termonator using the following command

sudo ./setup.py install

This will complete the installation

Using Terminator

Now if you want to open terminator use the following command from your terminal

terminator

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen

Now if you want to split your views you need to Right-Clicking on a terminal view you should see similar to the following options

After splitting your terminal you can see similar to the following screen

Using your multi view terminals in action

You can use the following keys to split your terminal views

Ctrl-Shift-E: will split the view vertically.

Ctrl-Shift-O: will split the view horizontally.

Ctrl-Shift-P: will focus be active on the previous view.

Ctrl-Shift-N: will focus be active on the next view.

Ctrl-Shift-W: will close the view where the focus is on.

Ctrl-Shift-Q: will exit terminator.

F11: will make terminator go fullscreen.

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