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> I think you're saying that the Cygwin version of terminator is old,
> and based on python2.

yes, that's right.

> Indeed, the terminator web pages indicate that it works with python2
> and python3.

correct

> You can always install it yourself from the terminator web site.  Most
> python code works out of the box on Cygwin, though it's always possible
> that a package tries to do OS-dependent stuff and gets confused under
> Cygwin as to whether it is running on Windows or Linux, depending on
> how it asks questions of the underlying system.

interesting, I may give it a try.
Thanks