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How to ask Terminator preference menu?
It's the (awkward) shift+middle-click combo that brings up Terminator context menu for me when putty_paste_style = True.
This is in contrast to the docs, both the terminator_config manpage and the ...
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Configure xterm to use ctrl+shift+c/ctrl+shift+v for copy/paste?
I was able to use CTRLSHIFTC and CTRLSHIFTV for Copy-and-Paste with XTerm by adding
XTerm*vt100.translations: #override \
Shift Ctrl <Key> C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
Shift Ctrl &...
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Keyboard shortcut for renaming tabs in the Terminator terminal emulator?
Titles can be set using:
Edit
Default Shortcut
Window title
Ctrl+Alt+W
Tab title
Ctrl+Alt+A
Terminal title
Ctrl+Alt+X
Source: the Terminator official documentation, in the Setting Titles ...
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how to use 256 colors for background color in terminal
In zsh, you don't need to hardcode escape sequences as it has several builtin ways to set the background and foreground colours.
You can use echoti setaf to set the terminal ansi foreground colour and ...
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save several bash screens of program input/output
This is what the script tool is for. It will save an entire terminal session - inputs and outputs:
$ script sessionlog.txt
[ do stuff ]
$ exit
$ ls sessionlog.txt
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Terminator can't run node commands
I encountered a problem similar to the OPs issue (the OP tries unsuccessfully to run the npm start command in a Terminator Custom Command) when I attempted to run jupyter notebook in a Terminator ...
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How to install Terminator in Rhel8?
As I already mentioned in the comment, at this moment the terminator package is not available in the EPEL8 repository. However, for what I can see in this ticket request, there are some effort to add ...
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Disable mouse codes passing to terminal once it was turned on by application?
Those settings apply to Vim, not to the shell.
I think the best approach is to reset the terminal:
reset
This disables mouse tracking, and will also undo other changes made by tools such as Midnight ...
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Launch a new terminator window with a keyboard shortcut without starting a new process
Simply add --new-tab switch to the configured keyboard shortcut :
terminator --new-tab
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How to change the line spacing in Terminator?
Nowadays, Terminator luckily supports this. In Preferences/Global, you can set the "cell height". It does exactly what @egmont described in his answer. I've actually been browsing the source ...
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Terminator won't open with default profile
From the documentation
Re-use profiles for new terminals (default: off)
When creating a new terminal with splitting or new tabs,
if this is enabled, then the profile from the previously
focussed ...
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How to activate a specific Terminator profile from the command-line?
It is possible to open a new tab with a different profile:
terminator --new-tab -p profile_name
I think there is no way to change the profile of the currently active window or tab.
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How to I force Terminator to reload configuration on the fly?
If you want to get into the source code and make your own solution - since terminator is written in python, it's quite easy to get into the source - I found the following:
In the terminatorlib, there ...
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Change "/bin/bash" in title of terminator and terminal?
To generate a configuration file , run:
terminator -l init;
edit the config file:
nano ~/.config/terminator/config
Add a new title for the window / terminal:
e,g:
[global_config]
[keybindings]
[...
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Change vim cursor in Terminator
Solved the issue by:
Updating Terminator to 1.91:
Here is how: https://askubuntu.com/a/1065672/878005
NOTE: The install/update suggestions on the terminator site did not work for me.
Update your ~....
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How to create a bunch of background processes in terminator terminals later kill them in bash
When run non-interactively (e.g. in a script), bash disables job control, so easy methods of killing background processes, such as those in Kill all background jobs or How to kill all jobs in bash? ...
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Temporary permissions problem in grep in one window
➜ dirA ±:(master) grep pom client/pom.xml [% 20:35:05]
grep:66: permission denied: client/src/main/java/client/BatClient.java
Should there be a battery percentage value of ...
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not able to open terminator in bash windows 10
I've done following steps when approached same problem
Install VcXsrv for windows and run it.
Open bash on windows and run echo "export DISPLAY=:0" >> $HOME/.bashrc
for changes of .bashrc file to get ...
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how to use 256 colors for background color in terminal
The direct colour and indexed colour ITU T.416 control sequences for foreground are SGR 38:2 and SGR 38:5.
The control sequences for background are similarly SGR 48:2 and SGR 48:5.
Read § 13.1.8 of ...
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Configure xterm to use ctrl+shift+c/ctrl+shift+v for copy/paste?
It does not copy on selection. Well not really, in the same way that nothing is copied with ctrl-c, or right click copy. This is a terrible metaphor, that is used on Microsoft's windows: You right ...
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How to install Terminator in Rhel8?
This issue seems to have been resolved. Now, on CentOS 8 (rhel 8) you can simply execute:
sudo dnf install epel-release -y
sudo dnf install terminator -y
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How to ask Terminator preference menu?
I'm running Linux Mint 19.2 and I was on a laptop with only a track-pad (thus no middle click), so to fix this I editing ~/.config/terminator/config. Just find putty_paste_style and make it equal "...
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How to ask Terminator preference menu?
The middle-click on the mouse does, indeed, work and can bring up the context menu. However, what is probably missing from the manual is the fact that it requires a DOUBLE click of the middle mouse ...
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Terminator won't launch
Just change it back. Python 2 and 3 are not compatible. By making that change, you have set your default python to be python3 and the system expects python to run a python 2 version. The file you have ...
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Work in a remote terminal with Terminator
Use screen or tmux on the remote computer. I prefer tmux for the improved scripting abilities.
Connect to the remote computer using whatever program you like that provides terminal emulation.
run tmux ...
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Disable mouse codes passing to terminal once it was turned on by application?
reset is vast overkill. For starters, simply re-starting and then properly exiting the application will fix this. It after all turns off the mouse reports that it has asked for at exit.
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save several bash screens of program input/output
Especially since you're already using rlwrap:
rlwrap has a --logfile (shorter:-l) option that will save the entire session (all edited input lines, and all output from the rlwrapped command) to a ...
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How to I force Terminator to reload configuration on the fly?
I just wrote this very blind/fragile script to programmatically move the mouse to go through the steps of changing the color scheme through the Terminator settings window using xdotool (sudo apt-get ...
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Split Terminator with external command?
These days you can use remotinator hsplit: https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advancedusage.html#remotinator
I was looking for this today, and just posting this here in case someone else ...
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