# Welcome to Terminator’s documentation!

This is the beginnings of a manual for Terminator. Sometimes it is not always clear just how many little shortcuts and features there are in Terminator. This guide hopes to reduce the confusion.

A quick word on style. I have none. 😃 I have an casual way of talking and writing, and a strange sense of humour. I also tend to use random pop-culture references a lot, but often in ways that make no sense. If this is a problem you are entitled to a refund of the money you paid to me to write this... 😎

## What is Terminator

At its simplest Terminator is a terminal emulator like xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc. At its most complex it lets you fly... metaphorically at least. Take a look at the following list:

- Arrange terminals in a grid
- Tabs
- Drag and drop re-ordering of terminals
- Lots of keyboard shortcuts
- Save multiple layouts and profiles via GUI preferences editor
- Simultaneous typing to arbitrary groups of terminals

and lots more...

Contents:

- Licensing
- Document history
- Getting Started
  - The Context Menu
  - Navigating around
  - Changing the current layout
  - Resetting the terminal
  - The scrollbar and scrollback buffer
  - Search the buffer
  - Zooming the terminal
  - Setting Titles
  - Insert terminal number
  - Next/Prev profile
- Preferences Window
  - Global
  - Profiles
  - Layouts
  - Keybindings
  - Plugins
  - About
- Layouts and the Layout Launcher
  - The Layout Launcher
- The Grouping Menu
  - Manipulating terminal groups
  - Broadcasting input to multiple terminals
  - Insert terminal number
- Plugins
  - Included plugins
  - Third party plugins
  - Installing a plugin
  - Creating your own plugins
- Advanced Usage
  - Command line options
  - The Config file
  - Debugging
  - DBus
  - Remotinator
- Frequently Asked Questions
  - Why...
  - How do I...
- Getting involved
  - Translations
  - Improve icons/artwork
  - Terminator action shots
  - Manual updates
  - Testing
  - Bugs
  - Plugins
  - Main Application Development
  - GTK3 Port
  - Terminator API Docs
  - Other Docs for Developers