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~/.config/terminator/config \- the config file for Terminator terminal emulator.
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This manual page documents briefly the
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.B Terminator config file.
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config file. Terminator manages its configuration file via the ConfigObj library to combine flexibility with clear, human editable files. As of version 0.90, Terminator offers a full GUI preferences editor which automatically saves its config file so you don't need to write a config file by hand.
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\fBterminator/config\fP is an optional file to configure the terminator terminal emulator. It is used to control options not in gnome-terminal gconf profiles, or override gconf settings.
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Normally the config file will be ~/.config/terminator/config, but it may be overridden with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (in which case it will be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/terminator/config)
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This is what a Terminator config file should look like:
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# This is a comment
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background_color = #000000
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foreground_color = "#FFFFFF" #Another comment. Quotes can be used for any value
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scrollback_lines = "500" #More comment. Single quotes are valid too
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custom_command = "echo \\"foo#bar\\"" #Final comment - this will work as expected.
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full_screen = <Ctrl><Shift>F11
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These are the options Terminator currently supports:
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.B allow_bold\fR (boolean)
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If true, allow applications in the terminal to make text boldface.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B enable_real_transparency\fR (boolean)
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If true, Terminator will try to use real transparency if possible.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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\fBNOTE:\fR To enable transparency you should also see the \fBbackground_type\fR and \fBbackground_darkness\fR settings below.
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.B audible_bell\fR (boolean)
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If true, make a noise when applications send the escape sequence for the terminal bell.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B visible_bell\fR (boolean)
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If true, flash the terminal when applications send the escape sequence for the terminal bell.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B urgent_bell\fR (boolean)
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If true, set the window manager "urgent" hint when applications send the escale sequence for the terminal bell. Any keypress will cancel the urgent status.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B force_no_bell\fR (boolean)
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If true, don't make a noise or flash. All terminal bells will be ignored.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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If true, ignore the configured colours and use values from the theme instead.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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Default colour of terminal background, as a colour specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name such as "red"). \fBNote:\fR You may need to set \fBuse_theme_colors=False\fR to force this setting to take effect.
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Default value: \fB#000000\fR
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.B background_darkness
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A value between 0.0 and 1.0 indicating how much to darken the background image. 0.0 means no darkness, 1.0 means fully dark. If the terminal is set to transparent, this setting controls how transparent it is. 0.0 means fully transparent, 1.0 means fully opaque.
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Default value: \fB0.5\fR
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Type of terminal background. May be "solid" for a solid colour, "image" for an image, or "transparent" for full transparency in compositing window managers, otherwise pseudo transparency.
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Default value: \fBsolid\fR
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Path to an image file to be used for the background of terminals.
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Default value: Nothing
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Sets what code the backspace key generates. Possible values are "ascii-del" for the ASCII DEL character, "control-h" for Control-H (AKA the ASCII BS character), "escape-sequence" for the escape sequence typically bound to backspace or delete. "ascii-del" is normally considered the correct setting for the Backspace key.
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Default value: \fBascii\-del\fR
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Sets what code the delete key generates. Possible values are "ascii-del" for the ASCII DEL character, "control-h" for Control-H (AKA the ASCII BS character), "escape-sequence" for the escape sequence typically bound to backspace or delete. "escape-sequence" is normally considered the correct setting for the Delete key.
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Default value: \fBescape\-sequence\fR
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.B cursor_blink \fR(boolean)
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Controls if the cursor blinks.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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Default colour of cursor, as a colour specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name such as "red").
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Default value: Current value of \fBforeground_color\fR
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Default shape of cursor. Possibilities are "block", "ibeam", and "underline".
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Default value: \fBblock\fR
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Sets what type of terminal should be emulated.
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Default value: \fBxterm\fR
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If True the window will resize in step with font sizes, if False it will follow pixels
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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An Pango font name. Examples are "Sans 12" or "Monospace Bold 14".
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Default value: \fBMono 8\fR
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Default colour of text in the terminal, as a colour specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name such as "red"). \fBNote:\fR You may need to set \fBuse_theme_colors=False\fR to force this setting to take effect.
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Default value: \fB#AAAAAA\fR
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.B scrollbar_position
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Where to put the terminal scrollbar. Possibilities are "left", "right", and "disabled".
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Default value: \fBright\fR
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If true, a titlebar will be drawn for each terminal which shows the current title of that terminal.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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If true, a titlebar will be drawn on zoomed/maximised terminals which indicates how many are hidden.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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If true, a tooltip will be available for each terminal which shows the current title of that terminal.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B title_tx_txt_color
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Sets the colour of the text shown in the titlebar of the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB#FFFFFF\fR
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Sets the colour of the background of the titlebar in the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB#C80003\fR
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.B title_rx_txt_color
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Sets the colour of the text shown in the titlebar of any terminal that \fBwill\fR receive input from the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB#FFFFFF\fR
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Sets the colour of the background of the titlebar of any terminal that \fBwill\fR receive input from the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB#0076C9\fR
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.B title_ia_txt_color
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Sets the colour of the text shown in the titlebar of any terminal that will \fBnot\fR receive input from the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB#000000\fR
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Sets the colour of the background of the titlebar of any terminal that will \fBnot\fR receive input from the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB#C0BEBF\fR
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.B scroll_background \fR(boolean)
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If true, scroll the background image with the foreground text; if false, keep the image in a fixed position and scroll the text above it.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B scroll_on_keystroke \fR(boolean)
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If true, pressing a key jumps the scrollbar to the bottom.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B scroll_on_output \fR(boolean)
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If true, whenever there's new output the terminal will scroll to the bottom.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B alternate_screen_scroll \fR(boolean)
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Whether or not the mouse wheel scrolls alternate screen buffers (man, vim, mutt, etc). This is the default behavior of VTE, however Ubuntu and possbly other distributions feature patched versions of VTE where this functionality is optional. The option only effects the patched versions of VTE, otherwise it is ignored.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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Number of scrollback lines to keep around. You can scroll back in the terminal by this number of lines; lines that don't fit in the scrollback are discarded. Be careful with this setting; it's the primary factor in determining how much memory the terminal will use.
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Default value: \fB500\fR
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full_screen = <Ctrl><Shift>F11
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background_color = "#000000" # A comment
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foreground_color = "#FFFFFF" # Note that hex colour values must be quoted
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scrollback_lines = '500' #More comment. Single quotes are valid too
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custom_command = "echo \\"foo#bar\\"" #Final comment - this will work as expected.
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Below are the individual sections that can exist in the config file:
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These are the options Terminator currently supports in the global_config section:
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Sets what type of mouse events should determine terminal focus. Can be "sloppy" or "click". "mouse" is also interpreted as "sloppy".
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Control how focus is given to terminals. 'click' means the focus only moves to a terminal after you click in it. 'sloppy' means the focus will follow the mouse pointer. 'system' means the focus will match that used by a GNOME window manager.
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Default value: \fBclick\fR
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Sets which terminal should get the focus when another terminal is closed. Values can be "prev", "next" or "auto".
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Using "auto", if the closed terminal is within a splitted window, the focus will be on the sibling terminal rather than another tab.
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Default value: \fBauto\fR
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Possible values are "close" to close the terminal, and "restart" to restart the command.
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Default value: \fBclose\fR
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Terminals have a 16-colour palette that applications inside the terminal can use. This is that palette, in the form of a colon-separated list of colour names. Colour names should be in hex format e.g. "#FF00FF".
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Default value: \fB#000000000000:#CDCD00000000:#0000CDCD0000:#CDCDCDCD0000:#30BF30BFA38E:#A53C212FA53C:#0000CDCDCDCD:#FAFAEBEBD7D7:#404040404040:#FFFF00000000:#0000FFFF0000:#FFFFFFFF0000:#00000000FFFF:#FFFF0000FFFF:#0000FFFFFFFF:#FFFFFFFFFFFF\fR
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When selecting text by word, sequences of these characters are considered single words. Ranges can be given as "A-Z". Literal hyphen (not expressing a range) should be the first character given.
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Default value: \fB\-A\-Za\-z0\-9,./?%&#:_\fR
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.B mouse_autohide \fR(boolean)
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Controls whether the mouse cursor should be hidden while typing.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B use_custom_command \fR(boolean)
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If True, the value of \fBcustom_command\fR will be used instead of the default shell.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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Command to execute instead of the default shell, if \fBuse_custom_command\fR is set to True.
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URL of an HTTP proxy to use, e.g. http://proxy.lan:3128/
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Default value: Nothing
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Character set to use for the terminal.
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Default value: \fBUTF-8\fR
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.B fullscreen \fR(boolean)
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Controls whether the Terminator window will be started in fullscreen mode
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B maximise \fR(boolean)
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Controls whether the Terminator window will be started maximised
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B borderless \fR(boolean)
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Controls whether the Terminator window will be started without window borders
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B hidden \fR(boolean)
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Hides the Terminator window by default. Its visibility can be toggled with the \fBhide_window\fR keybinding (Ctrl-Shift-Alt-a by default)
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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Controls the width of the separator between terminals. Anything outside the range 0-5 (inclusive) will be ignored and use your default theme value.
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Default value: \fB-1\fR
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.B f11_modifier \fR(boolean)
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DEPRECATED. This option will disappear by 1.0. See \fB[keybindings]\fR instead.
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If this is set to True, the fullscreen keyboard shortcut changes from F11 (like many GNOME apps) to Ctrl-Shift-F11 (useful if you use terminal applications which expect to receive F11.
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If True the window will resize in step with font sizes, if False it will follow pixels
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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When set to 'normal' the Terminator window opens normally. 'maximise' opens the window in a maximised state, 'fullscreen' in a fullscreen state and 'hidden' will make it not shown by default.
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Default value: \fBnormal\fR
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.B borderless \fR(boolean)
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Controls whether the Terminator window will be started without window borders
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B cycle_term_tab \fR(boolean)
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If this is set to True, when switching to the next/previous term, Terminator will cycle within the same tab. Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown can then be used to move from one tab to the other one.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B close_button_on_tab \fR(boolean)
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If set to True, tabs will have a close button on them.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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Defines where tabs are placed. Can be any of: top, left, right, bottom.
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Default value: \fBtop\fR
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.B extreme_tabs \fR(boolean)
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If set to True, tabs can be created within other tabs. Be warned that this can be very confusing and hard to use.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B close_button_on_tab \fR(boolean)
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If set to True, tabs will have a close button on them.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B hide_tabbar \fR(boolean)
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If set to True, the tab bar will be hidden. This means there will be no visual indication of either how many tabs there are, or which one you are on. Be warned that this can be very confusing and hard to use.
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If set to True, the tab bar will not fill the width of the window. The titlebars of the tabs will only take as much space as is necessary for the text they contain. Except, that is, if the tabs no longer fit the width of the window - in that case scroll buttons will appear to move through the tabs.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B copy_on_selection \fR(boolean)
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If set to True, text selections will be automatically copied to the clipboard, in addition to being made the Primary selection.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B try_posix_regexp \fR(boolean)
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If set to True, URL matching regexps will try to use POSIX style first, and fall back on GNU style on failure. If you are on Linux but URL matches don't work, try setting this to True. If you are not on Linux, but you get VTE warnings on startup saying "Error compiling regular expression", set this to False to silence them (they are otherwise harmless).
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR on Linux, \fBTrue\fR otherwise.
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The following actions can have their keyboard shortcut configured in the config file in a section labelled \fB[keybindings]\fR:
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.B title_transmit_fg_color
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Sets the colour of the text shown in the titlebar of the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB'#FFFFFF'\fR
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.B title_transmit_bg_color
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Sets the colour of the background of the titlebar in the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB'#C80003'\fR
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.B title_receive_fg_color
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Sets the colour of the text shown in the titlebar of any terminal that \fBwill\fR receive input from the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB'#FFFFFF'\fR
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.B title_receive_bg_color
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Sets the colour of the background of the titlebar of any terminal that \fBwill\fR receive input from the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB'#0076C9'\fR
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.B title_inactive_fg_color
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Sets the colour of the text shown in the titlebar of any terminal that will \fBnot\fR receive input from the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB'#000000'\fR
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.B title_inactive_bg_color
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Sets the colour of the background of the titlebar of any terminal that will \fBnot\fR receive input from the active terminal.
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Default value: \fB'#C0BEBF'\fR
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A list of plugins which should not be loaded by default.
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Default value: \fB"TestPlugin, CustomCommandsMenu"\fR
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These are the options Terminator currently supports in the keybindings section:
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Make font one unit larger.
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Default value: \fB<Super><Shift>T\fR
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Spawn a new instance of Terminator and thus get a new window.
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Open a new Terminator window as part of the existing process.
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Default value: \fB<Ctrl><Shift>I\fR
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Spawn a new instance of Terminator.
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Default value: \fB<Super>i\fR
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Each profile should be its own subsection with a header in the format \fB[[name]]\fR
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.B allow_bold\fR (boolean)
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If true, allow applications in the terminal to make text boldface.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B audible_bell\fR (boolean)
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If true, make a noise when applications send the escape sequence for the terminal bell.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B visible_bell\fR (boolean)
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If true, flash the terminal when applications send the escape sequence for the terminal bell.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B urgent_bell\fR (boolean)
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If true, set the window manager "urgent" hint when applications send the escale sequence for the terminal bell. Any keypress will cancel the urgent status.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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.B icon_bell\fR (boolean)
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If true, briefly show a small icon on the terminal title bar for the terminal bell.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B force_no_bell\fR (boolean)
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If true, don't make a noise or flash. All terminal bells will be ignored.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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If true, ignore the configured colours and use values from the theme instead.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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Default colour of terminal background, as a colour specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name such as "red"). \fBNote:\fR You may need to set \fBuse_theme_colors=False\fR to force this setting to take effect.
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Default value: \fB'#000000'\fR
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.B background_darkness
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A value between 0.0 and 1.0 indicating how much to darken the background image. 0.0 means no darkness, 1.0 means fully dark. If the terminal is set to transparent, this setting controls how transparent it is. 0.0 means fully transparent, 1.0 means fully opaque.
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Default value: \fB0.5\fR
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Type of terminal background. May be "solid" for a solid colour, "image" for an image, or "transparent" for full transparency in compositing window managers, otherwise pseudo transparency.
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Default value: \fBsolid\fR
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Path to an image file to be used for the background of terminals.
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Default value: Nothing
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Sets what code the backspace key generates. Possible values are "ascii-del" for the ASCII DEL character, "control-h" for Control-H (AKA the ASCII BS character), "escape-sequence" for the escape sequence typically bound to backspace or delete. "ascii-del" is normally considered the correct setting for the Backspace key.
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Default value: \fBascii\-del\fR
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Sets what code the delete key generates. Possible values are "ascii-del" for the ASCII DEL character, "control-h" for Control-H (AKA the ASCII BS character), "escape-sequence" for the escape sequence typically bound to backspace or delete. "escape-sequence" is normally considered the correct setting for the Delete key.
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Default value: \fBescape\-sequence\fR
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.B color_scheme \fR(boolean)
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If specified this sets foreground_color and background_color to pre-set values. Possible options are 'grey_on_black', 'black_on_yellow', 'black_on_white', 'white_on_black', 'green_on_black', 'orange_on_black', 'ambience'.
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Default value: \fRgrey_on_black\fR
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.B cursor_blink \fR(boolean)
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Controls if the cursor blinks.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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Default colour of cursor, as a colour specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name such as "red").
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Default value: Current value of \fBforeground_color\fR
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Default shape of cursor. Possibilities are "block", "ibeam", and "underline".
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Default value: \fBblock\fR
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Sets what type of terminal should be emulated.
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Default value: \fBxterm\fR
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Whether or not to use the GNOME default monospace font for terminals.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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An Pango font name. Examples are "Sans 12" or "Monospace Bold 14".
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Default value: \fBMono 8\fR
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Default colour of text in the terminal, as a colour specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a colour name such as "red"). \fBNote:\fR You may need to set \fBuse_theme_colors=False\fR to force this setting to take effect.
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Default value: \fB'#AAAAAA'\fR
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.B scrollbar_position
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Where to put the terminal scrollbar. Possibilities are "left", "right", and "disabled".
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Default value: \fBright\fR
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If true, a titlebar will be drawn for each terminal which shows the current title of that terminal.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B scroll_background \fR(boolean)
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If true, scroll the background image with the foreground text; if false, keep the image in a fixed position and scroll the text above it.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B scroll_on_keystroke \fR(boolean)
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If true, pressing a key jumps the scrollbar to the bottom.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B scroll_on_output \fR(boolean)
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If true, whenever there's new output the terminal will scroll to the bottom.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B alternate_screen_scroll \fR(boolean)
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Whether or not the mouse wheel scrolls alternate screen buffers (man, vim, mutt, etc). This is the default behavior of VTE, however Ubuntu and possbly other distributions feature patched versions of VTE where this functionality is optional. The option only effects the patched versions of VTE, otherwise it is ignored.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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Number of scrollback lines to keep around. You can scroll back in the terminal by this number of lines; lines that don't fit in the scrollback are discarded. Be careful with this setting; it's the primary factor in determining how much memory the terminal will use.
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Default value: \fB500\fR
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.B scrollback_infinite
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If this is set to True, scrollback_lines will be ignored and VTE will continue to allocate RAM for scrollback history.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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Sets which terminal should get the focus when another terminal is closed. Values can be "prev", "next" or "auto".
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Using "auto", if the closed terminal is within a splitted window, the focus will be on the sibling terminal rather than another tab.
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Default value: \fBauto\fR
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Possible values are "close" to close the terminal, and "restart" to restart the command.
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Default value: \fBclose\fR
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Terminals have a 16-colour palette that applications inside the terminal can use. This is that palette, in the form of a colon-separated list of colour names. Colour names should be in hex format e.g. "#FF00FF".
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Default value: \fB'#000000000000:#CDCD00000000:#0000CDCD0000:#CDCDCDCD0000:#30BF30BFA38E:#A53C212FA53C:#0000CDCDCDCD:#FAFAEBEBD7D7:#404040404040:#FFFF00000000:#0000FFFF0000:#FFFFFFFF0000:#00000000FFFF:#FFFF0000FFFF:#0000FFFFFFFF:#FFFFFFFFFFFF'\fR
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When selecting text by word, sequences of these characters are considered single words. Ranges can be given as "A-Z". Literal hyphen (not expressing a range) should be the first character given.
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Default value: \fB'\-A\-Za\-z0\-9,./?%&#:_'\fR
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.B mouse_autohide \fR(boolean)
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Controls whether the mouse cursor should be hidden while typing.
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Default value: \fBTrue\fR
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.B use_custom_command \fR(boolean)
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If True, the value of \fBcustom_command\fR will be used instead of the default shell.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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Command to execute instead of the default shell, if \fBuse_custom_command\fR is set to True.
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Default value: Nothing
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URL of an HTTP proxy to use, e.g. http://proxy.lan:3128/
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Default value: Nothing
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Character set to use for the terminal.
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Default value: \fBUTF-8\fR
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.B copy_on_selection \fR(boolean)
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If set to True, text selections will be automatically copied to the clipboard, in addition to being made the Primary selection.
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Default value: \fBFalse\fR
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This describes the layouts section of the config file. Like with the profiles, each layout should be defined as a sub-section with a name formatted like: \fB[[name]]\fR.
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Each object in a layout is a named sub-sub-section with various properties:
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Window objects may not have a parent attribute. \fBEvery\fR other object must specify a parent. This is how the structure of the window is determined.
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Terminator plugins can add their own configuration to the config file, and will appear as a sub-section. Please refer to the documentation of individual plugins for more information.
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.BR gnome\-terminal(1)
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.BR gnome\-terminal(1), http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html