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June 6, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» Terminator 0.9 beta 1

Terminator 0.9 Feature Freeze has come, i’m really excited to see the new features working, they are awesome, but what are this new exciting features?

  • Tabs: Now terminator supports tabs, you have different tabs with splited terminals on each one.
  • Drag & Drop: Now you can reorder your terminals, you just need to press Cntrl + right click and drag and drop your terminals wherever you want!
  • Terminal zooming: This is one of the more exiting ones, have you expect problems when using splited terminals and one of them turns to little for some seconds? Now you just need to press ctrl+shift+z to have this terminal on the whole window and then use the same key combination to put it back on it’s place! It’s awesome!
  • Terminatorrc: Don’t like gnome environments? Now you don’t depend on gnome-terminal to configure your terminator, you can use ~/.terminatorrc to tune your terminal as you want it to be
  • Titles: kind of confused when using ssh connections inside terminator? Now we support titles, so you always have a title on each splited terminal to know where you are working on

It’s really awesome to see al this changes comming, they make terminator really usefull, want to try them? Help the terminator team to test it, just add my ppa to your sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvalcarcel/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvalcarcel/ubuntu hardy main

Download it:

$sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install terminator

And report bugs if you find some: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator

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February 11, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» Reaching goals

On my really first years using Linux i become myself a Debian user so i wished to become myself a Debian Developer, but for several reasons i don’t ever start my way into it. Years after i started using Ubuntu, and then, log time after, i started my way into MOTU but never forgetting where i came from, so i started helping in the ubuntu “Debian Collaboration Team”, reporting bugs back to debian and helping resolving them, sending patches, talking to the debian developers, and so on, so i feel really good collaborating back to the distribution who involved me on free software, and now, as i have my way to MOTU really advanced i start my way to debian too, and now i’m a debian mantainer, i get terminator included on debian (thanks stone-head) so now the goal is to be more involved on the project and maybe became an official DD one day :D

January 15, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» Terminator finally uploaded!

Well, these have been busy days, i have been working on some ubuntu MOTU tasks, involving me in the Server Team and i have felt in love and involve myself on the developing of terminator. Finally i can easy split my monitor with terminals and see all of them at the same time! it’s what i was looking for!

Terminator 0.1 Screenshot

The last days we where working on the 0.7 release and all the packaging work for it’s inclusion on Ubuntu and Debian, for ubuntu there was a LOT of feedback, comments and help from the MOTU’s and finally after some work done it’s have been uploaded today and it’s on the build queue waiting for the admins to approve it, i’m so happy to see it there after all the work we put in there. I hope to receive some feedback from the Debian developers on the next few days so it can also be included up there, for now let’s start working on 0.8 and on the hardy development circle :D