<s>
GNOME	B-Language
Terminator	I-Language
is	O
a	O
free	B-License
and	I-License
open-source	I-License
terminal	B-Application
emulator	I-Application
for	O
Linux	B-Application
programmed	O
in	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
licensed	O
under	O
GPL-2.0-only	B-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
that	O
the	O
main	O
focus	O
is	O
arranging	O
terminals	O
in	O
grids	O
(	O
tabs	O
is	O
the	O
most	O
common	O
default	O
method	O
,	O
which	O
Terminator	B-Application
also	O
supports	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Terminator	B-Application
packages	O
exist	O
for	O
Arch	O
,	O
Debian/Ubuntu	O
,	O
Fedora	O
,	O
OpenSUSE	B-Operating_System
,	O
Gentoo	B-Application
,	O
Snap	B-Application
,	O
FreeBSD	B-Operating_System
,	O
OpenBSD	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2017	O
took	O
second	O
place	O
in	O
voting	O
at	O
opensource.com,	O
after	O
Gnome	B-Language
Terminal	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Terminator	B-Application
is	O
not	O
a	O
fork	B-Application
of	O
GNOME	B-Language
Terminal	I-Language
(	O
which	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
C	B-Language
)	O
;	O
instead	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
developed	O
from	O
scratch	O
by	O
Chris	O
Jones	O
,	O
entirely	O
in	O
Python	B-Language
(	O
based	O
on	O
PyGObject	B-Language
to	O
interact	O
with	O
the	O
desktop	O
environment	O
and	O
Python	B-Language
VTE	O
providing	O
the	O
GUI	B-Application
component	O
)	O
,	O
but	O
much	O
of	O
the	O
behavior	O
of	O
Terminator	B-Application
is	O
based	O
on	O
GNOME	B-Language
Terminal	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Terminator	B-Application
began	O
from	O
vte-demo.py	O
in	O
VTE	O
and	O
the	O
gedit	B-Language
terminal	O
plugin	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
useful	O
to	O
the	O
authors	O
for	O
figuring	O
out	O
VTE	O
's	O
API	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GTK3+	B-Application
support	O
started	O
near	O
the	O
end	O
of	O
2012	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
version	O
supporting	O
GTK3+	B-Application
was	O
published	O
by	O
the	O
end	O
of	O
2016	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2020	O
the	O
project	O
was	O
forked	B-Application
to	O
GitHub	O
due	O
to	O
a	O
lack	O
of	O
activity	O
on	O
Launchpad	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
features	O
are	O
available	O
in	O
the	O
2.x	O
release	O
of	O
Terminator	B-Application
.	O
</s>
