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Pros
Pro Desktop notifications on silence and/or activity
There is a standard notification pop-up that appears if a terminal is silent for a configurable period, or if it has new activity.
Pro Zoom and Maximize a single terminal for aiding focus
You can zoom (font size increases) or maximize (font size does not increase) a single terminal to fill the whole window with a shortcut. All the other terminals remain open, they are just hidden from sight, and everything is restored by repeating the shortcut.
Pro Tries to reduce resource usage through DBus
Unless this option is disabled (it's enabled by default), Terminator will only run the first instance as a process. And when it's run again, the DBus server will simply open a new window using the old process. This helps a lot with reducing resource usage.
Pro Can save logs
Terminator has a really helpful functionality that lets the user start/stop a logger in order to save the text written in the shell into a file. In order to do this, the user needs to turn on the logging plugin in the plugin settings, and then a "start logger" menu item will appear in a right click menu when using the terminal. The user is also able to pick the path they would like the logs saved to when turning the plugin on.
Cons
Con Heavyweight
Due to its many features, Terminator can be a bit heavyweight and with lots of dependencies. This makes it unsuitable for old machines or computers with low resources.
Con Poor text search
Text search in Terminator does not highlight matching patterns when found. It just shows the row containing one of the matching patterns at the top of the terminal. This way text search is still usable, but not the best.
Con Starting up can be slow
Terminator can be pretty slow (as far as terminals go) when first starting up.
Con Buggy and crashy
Crashes and closes many times a day when using split (and unsplit) shortcuts. The developers don't accept a bug report if isn't critical or not easy to reproduce.
Con Unable to specify startup window dimensions
Some users like their terminal windows to be a particular number of characters wide and tall. The default is 80x24 but some prefer something larger. Manually resizing every new instance gets old fast.
Con Multiple line copy and paste does not work correctly.
If an output line wraps onto two lines copying and pasting it will insert a line break character between the two lines even though the was no line break in the original output. Thus it is impossible to copy/paste lines longer than the terminal width.
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Con Less usable vertical space
When not using tabs, the tab bar can be hidden, just like in GNOME-Shell. But the title used for the window panes when splitting the window can not be hidden. Therefore, even when working with a single pane you lose one usable line of text. Whether this is important depends largely on how heavily the split function is used (or not used).