September 14, 2016

Install terminator, a nice terminal application for Linux

Use terminator if you use terminal alot
- multi tabs
- multi panels
- fast

More info : http://gnometerminator.blogspot.my/p/introduction.html

1. To install, download tar ball from here
http://launchpad.net/terminator/trunk/0.97/+download/terminator-0.97.tar.gz

2. Copy to somewhere you usually install your application
sudo cp -r terminator-0.97 /usr/local/

3. Create a symlink to our application in /usr/bin
This enable you to run it from terminal
ln -s /usr/local/terminator-0.97/terminator /usr/bin/terminator

4. Now you can run terminator from command line.
To run it without the need of the console, run
setsid terminator