Tech Blog - Jonathan Holloway

I’ve been using a terminal called Terminator for the last few months instead of the terminal that’s bundled with Ubuntu.  The main reason for this was to take advantage of easy split window creation to enable multiple terminals on the same screen.  This is provided along with tabbed windows, but there also a number of other notable features.  I struggled to find a set of shortcut keys for Terminator initially, so there are a few below along with some explanation of the feature:

CTRL+SHIFT+e - Split terminal horizontally
CTRL+SHIFT+o - Split terminal vertically
CTRL+SHIFT+T - Open a new tab
CTRL+Tab - Switch terminals
CTRL+SHIFT+w - Close currently selected terminal window
CTRL+SHIFT+q - Close all terminals
CTRL+SHIFT+z - Maximize currently selected terminal window
CTRL+SHIFT+Left Arrow - Move split (dragbar) to the left
CTRL+SHIFT+Right Arrow - Move split (dragbar) to the right
CTRL+SHIFT+Up Arrow - Move split (dragbar) up
CTRL+SHIFT+Down Arrow - Move split (dragbar) down
CTRL+SHIFT++ - Increase text size in the terminal
CTRL+SHIFT+- - Decrease text size in the terminal
CTRL+SHIFT+0 - Restore text size in the terminal
CTRL+Right Click - moves a window, release the CTRL key to finalise the window position.
F11 - Fullscreen view

You can also get these using to look at all possible options for terminator. Overall it’s a good replacement for the bog standard terminal with some added features.