HOWTO: Make Terminator Terminal Act Like Guake Terminal in Ubuntu 11.10 8
Updated instructions for Fedora 23 can be found here http://bytefreaks.net/gnulinux/bash/howto-make-terminator-terminal-act-like-guake-terminal-in-fedora-23
For Ubuntu 16.04LTS here http://bytefreaks.net/gnulinux/howto-make-terminator-terminal-act-like-guake-terminal-in-ubuntu-16-04-lts-the-easy-ways
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Installation:
We had to install the beta version so that it supports a new feature that is not currently available in the Ubuntu repositories:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install terminator
After that, create the following file: ~/.config/terminator/config and add the following text in it:
[global_config] enabled_plugins = LaunchpadCodeURLHandler, APTURLHandler, LaunchpadBugURLHandler always_on_top = True tab_position = bottom sticky = True [keybindings] hide_window = F12 [profiles] [[default]] background_darkness = 0.75 background_type = transparent foreground_color = "#ffffff" [layouts] [[default]] [[[child0]]] position = 0:24 type = Window order = 0 parent = "" size = 1679, 298 [[[child1]]] position = 839 type = HPaned order = 0 parent = child0 [[[terminal3]]] profile = default type = Terminal order = 1 parent = child1 [[[terminal2]]] profile = default type = Terminal order = 0 parent = child1 [[original]] [[[child1]]] type = Terminal parent = window0 profile = default [[[window0]]] type = Window order = 0 parent = "" [plugins]
This will configure terminator to accept the F12 button as a hide/show command wherever you are and will initially create a session with two terminals when you start terminator, as in the screenshot below: