Terminator Keyboard Shortcuts and Options

Keybindings

Description	Shortcut
Split terminals Horizontally.	Ctrl+Shift+O
Split terminals Vertically.	Ctrl+Shift+E
Move parent dragbar Right.	Ctrl+Shift+Right
Move parent dragbar Left.	Ctrl+Shift+Left
Move parent dragbar Up.	Ctrl+Shift+Up
Move parent dragbar Down.	Ctrl+Shift+Down
Hide/Show Scrollbar.	Ctrl+Shift+S
Search within terminal scrollback	Ctrl+Shift+F
Move to next terminal within the same tab, use Ctrl+PageDown to move to the next tab. If cycle_term_tab is False, cycle within thesame tab will be disabled	Ctrl+Shift+N or Ctrl+Tab
Move to previous terminal within the same tab, use Ctrl+PageUp to move to the previous tab. If cycle_term_tab is False, cycle withinthe same tab will be disabled	Ctrl+Shift+P or Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Move to the terminal above the current one.	Alt+Up
Move to the terminal below the current one.	Alt+Down
Move to the terminal left of the current one.	Alt+Left
Move to the terminal right of the current one.	Alt+Right
Copy selected text to clipboard	Ctrl+Shift+C
Paste clipboard text	Ctrl+Shift+V
Close the current terminal.	Ctrl+Shift+W
Quits Terminator	Ctrl+Shift+Q
Toggle between showing all terminals and only showing the current one (maximise).	Ctrl+Shift+X
Toggle between showing all terminals and only showing a scaled version of the current one (zoom).	Ctrl+Shift+Z
Open new tab	Ctrl+Shift+T
Move to next Tab	Ctrl+PageDown
Move to previous Tab	Ctrl+PageUp
Swap tab position with next Tab	Ctrl+Shift+PageDown
Swap tab position with previous Tab	Ctrl+Shift+PageUp
Increase font size. Note: this may require you to press shift, depending on your keyboard	Ctrl+Plus (+)
Decrease font size. Note: this may require you to press shift, depending on your keyboard	Ctrl+Minus (-)
Restore font size to original setting.	Ctrl+Zero (0)
Toggle fullscreen	F11
Reset terminal state	Ctrl+Shift+R
Reset terminal state and clear window	Ctrl+Shift+G
Group all terminals so that any input sent to one of them, goes to all of them.	Super+g
Remove grouping from all terminals.	Super+Shift+G
Group all terminals in the current tab so input sent to one of them, goes to all terminals in the current tab.	Super+t
Remove grouping from all terminals in the current tab.	Super+Shift+T
Open a new window (note: unlike in previous releases, this window is part of the same Terminator process)	Ctrl+Shift+I
Spawn a new Terminator process	Super+i

Options

Description	Option
Show summary of options	-h, --help
Show the version of the Terminator installation	-v, --version
Start with a maximised window	-m, --maximise
Start with a fullscreen window	-f, --fullscreen
Instruct the window manager not to render borders/decoration on the Terminator window (this works well with -m)	-b, --borderless
Hide the Terminator window by default. Its visibility can be toggled with the hide_window keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-Alt-a by default)	-H, --hidden
Force the Terminator window to use a specific name rather than updating it dynamically based on the wishes of the child shell.	-T, --title
Specifies the preferred size and position of Terminator's window; see x(7).	--geometry=GEOMETRY
Runs the specified command instead of your default shell or profile specified command	-e, --command=COMMAND
Runs the rest of the command line instead of your default shell or profile specified command.	-x, --execute COMMAND [ARGS]
Set the terminal's working directory	--working-directory=DIR
Set a custom WM_WINDOW_ROLE property on the window	-r, --role=ROLE
Start Terminator with a specific layout. The argument here is the name of a saved layout.	-l, --layout=LAYOUT
Enable debugging output (please use this when reporting bugs). This can be specified twice to enable a built-in python debugging server.	-d, --debug
If this is specified as a comma separated list, debugging output will only be printed from the specified classes.	--debug-classes=DEBUG_CLASSES
If this is specified as a comma separated list, debugging outut will only be printed from the specified functions. If this is specified in addition to--debug-classes, only the intersection of the two lists will be displayed	--debug-methods=DEBUG_METHODS