I am big on keyboard shortcuts. For a couple of years now I've set Ctrl-Shift-o to start gnome-terminal. This works great. A little too great. I end up with a dozen gnome-terminal windows scattered across 4 workspaces. I decided to stop the madness. I installed Terminator and wrote the small bash script below. The script below will search for a Terminator session and if found bring it in to focus. If Terminator is not running it will start it.
#!/bin/bash
if (wmctrl -l | grep Terminator);
then
wmctrl -a Terminator;
else
terminator -T Terminator;
fi
If you are using Ubuntu like me you can use the following command to install Terminator and wmctrl.
sudo apt-get install terminator wmctrl
If you want to try this copy and paste the script to a file and make the file executable. Then use
gconf-editor to set your keyboard shortcut to your script.
