Can't launch new terminal via cli

[Michael Lustfield]

This would be a pretty big feature request... but....

It would be amazing if we could launch a new terminal inside of a named terminator instance.

Example:
terminator --title=MyStuff
terminator --title=MyStuff --new-term=vertical
terminator --title=MyStuff --new-term=horizontal

If you're up for doing that - maybe also allowing input to be moved that way too - example: terminator --title=MyStuff --move=right

[Kejope (kejope)]

Anything that makes things scriptable is beautiful to me.

I would suggest for consideration, instead of cluttering the parameter interface, do as awk does:
you can include 'quoted; script; commands;' on the command line, or you can supply a filename containing said commands, or you can just pipe it in.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Any of these ideas need to consider that splits can be arbitrarily nested - expressing a tree structure with simple command-line arguments or quoted script commands is extremely subtle and tricky. I'd want to agree on some really awesome syntax before doing any work on this!

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

Heh.. maybe an API?....

get pid of launched terminator instance..

terminator_cmd --pid=``pid'' --window=``window_number'' --split-horizontal --width=75%
terminator_cmd --pid=``pid'' --window=``window_number'' --split-vertical
terminator_cmd --pid=``pid'' --window=``window_number'' --split-close
terminator_cmd --pid=``pid'' --window=``window_number'' --execute="irssi"

cat > terminator_commands <<TERM
create_window id=t1
split_vertical win=t1 id=t2
split_horizontal win=t1 id=t3
execute win=t3 irssi
TERM

terminator --cmd-file=terminator_commands

something like that sounds pretty darned spiffy! :)