Terminator is a little project to produce an efficient way of filling a large area of screen space with terminals. The user can have multiple terminals in one window and use key bindings to switch between them.
Terminator is more than an alternative to the regular default terminal application. It allows you to split the terminal window in two or more terminals.
Installing Terminator
You can install Terminator via the Ubuntu Software Center. You can also use the button at the beginning of this post.
To install via terminal:
sudo apt-get install terminator
Customization
You can customize Terminator in many ways. Use the preferences menu to do so.
I really like crunchbang Terminator looks, so I used the config file from that distro in my machine.
You can use it to by going into ~/.config/terminator/config and replace all the text with:
[global_config]
title_transmit_bg_color = "#000000"
title_inactive_bg_color = "#000000"
[keybindings]
hide_window = <Shift><Control>a
[profiles]
[[default]]
scrollbar_position = hidden
palette = "#000000:#cc0000:#4e9a06:#c4a000:#3465a4:#75507b:#06989a:#d3d7cf:#555753:#ef2929:#8ae234:#fce94f:#729fcf:#ad7fa8:#34e2e2:#eeeeec"
background_darkness = 0.769574944072
scrollback_lines = 5000
use_system_font = False
cursor_color = "#d8d8d8"
foreground_color = "#d8d8d8"
scroll_on_output = False
show_titlebar = False
color_scheme = custom
font = Monospace 9
background_color = "#252627"
scrollback_infinite = True
[layouts]
[[default]]
[[[child1]]]
type = Terminal
parent = window0
[[[window0]]]
type = Window
parent = ""
[plugins]