This article is about the Python terminal emulator influenced by GNOME Terminal. Not to be confused with Terminator, another similarly-named terminal emulator.
Terminator is not a fork of GNOME Terminal (which is written in C); instead, it was developed from scratch by Chris Jones, entirely in Python (based on PyGObject to interact with the desktop environment and Python VTE providing the GUI component), but much of the behavior of Terminator is based on GNOME Terminal.[11] Terminator began from vte-demo.py in VTE and the gedit terminal plugin, which was useful to the authors for figuring out VTE's API.
In July 2013, Steve Boddy succeeded Jones and took the lead of the project.
GTK3+ support started near the end of 2012. The first version supporting GTK3+ was published by the end of 2016.
In April 2020 the project was forked to GitHub due to a lack of activity on Launchpad.[12][13]
Features
The following features are available in the 2.x release of Terminator.[14]
Arrange terminals in a grid-like structure[15][16][17]
^gnome-terminator/terminator, GNOME Terminator, 2020-07-27, retrieved 2020-07-27, In April of 2020 we started moving Terminator to GitHub. A new team wanted to continue the work of the original authors.
^"A new home for terminator · Issue #1 · gnome-terminator/terminator". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-07-27. 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.
