--- title: From Terminator To Wezterm | daily.dev description: A practical migration guide for Terminator users switching to WezTerm. Covers creating the Lua configuration file from scratch, setting up color schemes and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-terminator-to-wezterm-zjkxrspqy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From Terminator To Wezterm | daily.dev og:description: A practical migration guide for Terminator users switching to WezTerm. Covers creating the Lua configuration file from scratch, setting up color schemes and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-terminator-to-wezterm-zjkxrspqy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZJkXRspqy.png og:image:alt: From Terminator To Wezterm og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From Terminator To Wezterm **[Dystroy](https://daily.dev/sources/dystroy)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical migration guide for Terminator users switching to WezTerm. Covers creating the Lua configuration file from scratch, setting up color schemes and fonts, configuring pane splitting and navigation shortcuts that mirror Terminator's behavior, customizing mouse link-opening behavior, and naming tabs via a bash function. Includes a complete ready-to-use config file. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-obsessively-tune-wezterm-183usjnh3) · Hacker News · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [I switched from Windows Terminal to WezTerm, and the difference is night and day](https://daily.dev/posts/i-switched-from-windows-terminal-to-wezterm-and-the-difference-is-night-and-day-cmaxba6ip) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Make tmux Pretty and Usable](https://daily.dev/posts/make-tmux-pretty-and-usable-eso9v6dzr) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#lua](https://daily.dev/tags/lua) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/from-terminator-to-wezterm-zjkxrspqy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"From Terminator To Wezterm","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-terminator-to-wezterm-zjkxrspqy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-terminator-to-wezterm-zjkxrspqy"},"datePublished":"2026-03-31T12:30:47.242Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T12:38:42.737Z","description":"A practical migration guide for Terminator users switching to WezTerm. Covers creating the Lua configuration file from scratch, setting up color schemes and...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/86c1779588c59bfe6f5411be43dd3635?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/86c1779588c59bfe6f5411be43dd3635?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Dystroy","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Dystroy","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--n2ffxB54--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774960093/logos/dystroy?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/dystroy"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-terminator-to-wezterm-zjkxrspqy","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"lua","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dystroy","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/dystroy"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"From Terminator To Wezterm"}]} ```