How to Select-All in Terminator

Question

How can I select all the text in a Terminator terminal? Ctrl-Shift-A does not work.

So, it seems this feature is still missing. Has anyone requested for it to be added to the next version of Terminator? — yuranos, Mar 17 '17 at 08:35

score 91 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '19 at 20:32

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I don't have the menu bar, nor the option to show it. So I have this workaround:

Shift + Home
Select the first line
Shift + End
Shift + click on the last character

answered Mar 18 '19 at 20:32

Jose Enrique

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This should be the accepted answer. – Osolong Oct 03 '19 at 19:16
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I would have never figured out the shift + click part. Thanks you! – Lonnie Best Mar 11 '22 at 23:17
This works for the regular terminal as well as with Terminator !! – cdahms Jun 18 '22 at 17:43
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The neat thing is that after clicking the first character or line you can drag the scroll bar with your mouse, it doesn't reset the selection. So even if there's a million lines you can still select and copy all of them quickly. And you can select from the bottom to the top, not jut top to bottom. – Violet Giraffe Feb 17 '23 at 17:51
I needed this to copy a text file from a machine behind a complicated VPN where I can't set a remote copy. Thanks for this solution, this works like a charm ! :) – Kyron Apr 16 '24 at 09:31
This works nearly everywhere, at least on Windows and Linux. Somehow, though, it didn’t come to mind for this use case. Thank you! – fivef Oct 07 '24 at 13:14

score 31 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '16 at 23:54

The quickest way to select all / select specific text in Gnome Terminator:

Click at the start of the text you want to select
Scroll the window to the end of the text you want select
Shift + click the end of your selection
All text between your first click and your last Shift + click is now selected
Then you can Ctrl + Shift + C your selection out of there

It's not a keyboard shortcut, but it's a lot faster than click-and-drag to select text, that's for sure.

score 18 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 11 '20 at 21:47

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Your select all is disabled by default.

Go to Menu->Preferences->Shortcuts
From Edit selection choose "Select All"
Then to assign press Ctrl+Shift+A

answered Nov 11 '20 at 21:47

Biddut Mitra

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I am surprised built-in solution doesn't get more recognition. It works for me in Gnome Terminal 3.36.2 (in Ubuntu 20.04.02 LTS). Is this a recent addition to Gnome Terminal? – Iain Samuel McLean Elder May 12 '21 at 19:35
To do this, with my default settings (U21.04, 3.38.1):
1. In Edit selection, doubleclick "Select All". Singleclick just hangs there
– Joe Kul Jan 10 '22 at 13:33
@Joe Kul Press the keys. Simulate. Process number #3 above. – Biddut Mitra Jan 11 '22 at 10:22
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This only copies one screenful of the output, not all of it. Not a solution at all. – Violet Giraffe Feb 17 '23 at 17:49
@Violet-Giraffe This procedure is used to "enable" the select all command, ie. Control+shift+a . So follow the above procedure to "ENABLE" the "DISABLED" command. – Biddut Mitra Feb 18 '23 at 18:10
@BiddutMitra: as I said, that command is useless, it's actually "select screen", not "Select ALL" – Violet Giraffe Feb 18 '23 at 18:26
@Violet-Giraffe Iain Samuel McLean Elder said very well indeed. LOL. – Biddut Mitra Feb 19 '23 at 19:45

score 7 · Answer 4 · answered May 22 '19 at 07:04

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I had the same goal and modified Thierry Ds copyall-Terminator-Plugin to be just a select-all.

Install and activation:

copy selectall.py into /usr/share/terminator/terminatorlib/plugins/
restart terminator to discover the new plugin
in terminator:
- right-click->Preferences
- switch to Plugins tab
- select SelectAll
- click Close

Now you can Select-All by: right-click->Select all

Perhaps I should add a shortcut as well.

answered May 22 '19 at 07:04

Enno Gröper

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Is there a way to attach a keyboard shortcut to plugin actions? Struggling to find documentation – jberryman Jun 23 '19 at 03:04
From what I've seen at first sight, I don't think that is currently possible. – Enno Gröper Jun 23 '19 at 06:41
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@EnnoGröper You have mixed tabs and spaces in selectall.py. Specifically, before terminal.vte.select_all() line you have a tab instead of spaces. – previous_developer May 31 '20 at 15:49
@previous_developer Thanks for the hint. Fixed it. – Enno Gröper Jun 02 '20 at 05:58
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Groping for a long time, finally this solved :good: – yurenchen Aug 15 '20 at 18:14
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! – Bill Kotsias Aug 01 '24 at 08:41

koni_raid · Answer 5 · 2015-11-12T16:42:57.017

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No Shortcut, use Mouse: click on Menu -> Select All

Only true for Program: Terminal

edited Nov 12 '15 at 16:42

answered Nov 12 '15 at 13:20

koni_raid

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There is no Menu Bar in my Terminator window. In the Context/Right-Click Menu only Copy and Paste is available – bmm Nov 12 '15 at 13:34
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It seems it is not implemented: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1091960 – koni_raid Nov 12 '15 at 16:41
As bmm wrote, there is no menu bar in Terminator. – fadedbee Feb 22 '19 at 08:38

score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 05 '17 at 17:53

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Right click at terminal
In menu check: Show menubar
In the menubar: Edit->Select All
Right click at terminal: Copy

answered Jan 05 '17 at 17:53

Eugen Konkov

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This process copies ONLY current "terminal" page. – Jun 03 '19 at 00:47
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Well, this worked for my in any text content. Thanks Eugen – Carlost Nov 10 '23 at 15:39

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 25 '19 at 18:41

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(This depends on terminal/distro - what worked for me with huge output):

start selecting with mouse and then press PgUp/PgDn

answered Mar 25 '19 at 18:41

noonex

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 18 '23 at 12:43

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Version 2.1.0 needs this settings changed.

answered Oct 18 '23 at 12:43

raz

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How to Select-All in Terminator

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