Installer terminator avec Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt

Commandes et alias

• remotinator
• terminator

Historique du projet

The project began in 2007 as a roughly 300-line Python script. The README says it borrowed ideas and code from VTE examples and the gedit terminal plugin, and was inspired by earlier multi-terminal projects such as quadkonsole and gnome-multi-term.

Terminator's original 0.1 release was announced on July 28, 2007. The README records a maintainer handoff pattern typical of older desktop utilities: started by Chris Jones, maintained from 2014 to 2020 by Stephen Boddy, and later maintained by Matt Rose with many contributors.

In April 2020 the project began moving to GitHub under the gnome-terminator organization. The v1.92 release notes describe it as the first release since 2017, with a new team, Python 3 support, and fixes for current GTK and VTE. The v2.0 release later in 2020 marked completion of the GTK 3 and Python 3 migration.

Historique d'adoption

Terminator has broad distribution packaging. The README says it is available for most Linux distributions from their binary repositories and also on FreeBSD; this batch input lists apk, Homebrew, Debian, Fedora/dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, Ubuntu, and zypper.

That adoption reflects its niche: Terminator is not just a terminal emulator but a workflow tool for administrators, developers, and support engineers who want tiled terminals, saved layouts, synchronized input groups, and quick keyboard-driven pane management.

Modes d'utilisation

The README's quick start centers on splitting panes horizontally and vertically, moving focus between terminals, opening tabs and windows, closing panes, resetting zoom, and changing preferences. The grouping menu lets users send input to multiple terminals at once.

Terminator also exposes `remotinator` and man pages for both the application and its config file. Its package-manager use is therefore both interactive and script-adjacent: users install it as a desktop terminal, but power users often care about config paths, layouts, keybindings, plugins, and distro integration.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Terminator is significant because it turned multi-pane terminal workflows into a packaged desktop utility before multiplexers and terminal emulators converged on similar ideas. For many Linux users it was the installable answer to managing many local shells or SSH sessions without learning a terminal multiplexer.

The 2020 migration mattered to package maintainers because Python 2 and GTK 2 retirement threatened old desktop packages. The GitHub move, Python 3 support, and GTK 3 release line kept Terminator viable in modern distro repositories.

Chronologie

• 2007: Project started by Chris Jones.
• 2007: Version 0.1 released on July 28.
• 2014: Stephen Boddy began the maintainer period recorded in the README.
• 2020: Project began moving to GitHub in April.
• 2020: v1.92 became the first GitHub release and first release since 2017.
• 2020: v2.0 completed migration to GTK 3 and Python 3.
• 2021: v2.1.0 included package-maintainer notes about tarball contents and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.

Related projects

• The README names quadkonsole, gnome-multi-term, iTerm2, and Tilix as inspirations or related projects. It also depends historically on GNOME's VTE widget ecosystem and gedit terminal-plugin examples.

Sources

• GitHub README: https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator#readme
• GitHub releases: https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator/releases
• GitHub repository metadata: https://api.github.com/repos/gnome-terminator/terminator
• Input source_facts.package-manager