Comment 7 for bug 1531043

hello.

I would strongly recommend against "fixing" this bug, until the ridiculous default keybinding (Alt-A) is completely removed.

This 'broadcast' feature, has such risk of damage, that it should not have any default keybinding.

I have been using Terminator for years now, yet I was just struck by the 'broadcast' feature. It does explain a few weird occurrences in the past.

I had 16 terminals, showing various sessions logged in across 3 servers, some of them as root.

It seems somehow, (I guess) I accidentally typed Alt-A in one terminal.

Since then every character I then typed was being sent as input in every terminal.

I was typing, for example, in one terminal, things such as 'rm -f *', 'rm -f x*' and so on.

this "Bug" saved me because in all those other terminals, instead of 'rm -f *' it was running 'rrmmff --ff **'

All users of Terminator should consider removing the default keybinding, by setting them to None in ~/.config/terminator/config, for example:

$> cat ~/.config/terminator/config
[global_config]
[keybindings]
  help = None
  broadcast_all = None
  broadcast_group = None

Fortunately I'm very happy right now, thanks to this "bug", that I didn't lose a bunch of files, across a bunch of directories, on a bunch of servers.