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Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by w0m »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #2

Apologies for the off-topic, but does anyone know a nice simple terminal emulator to use with tiling window managers such as i3? I'm using the xfce terminal right now, but that supports tabs which gets a little confusing since so does i3.

Load up tmux in xfce terminal? Will give you persistance also

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by sjmulder »

Cool project!

Given that the whole point of the tool is that it's a tiling terminal app, I'd appreciate a few more screenshots on the page or in the readme showing the different ways it lets me organise my terminals.

I'm a big fan of Gnome's design with the unified title and toolbars. For a terminal app such as this, however, the fat title bar combined with the tab bar make for a fairly large and heavy looking header. I wish it was a little more compact.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by bitexploder »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #2

Apologies for the off-topic, but does anyone know a nice simple terminal emulator to use with tiling window managers such as i3? I'm using the xfce terminal right now, but that supports tabs which gets a little confusing since so does i3.

I just use gnome-terminal. It is fine. No chrome or trim. i3 and tmux to lay out terminals. If you don't like tmux, i3 is also very good at laying things out. Just turn off all the menus for something like gnome-terminal, which renders things like powerline fonts fine.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by tokenizerrr »

w0m wrote: post #3
tokenizerrr wrote: post #2

Apologies for the off-topic, but does anyone know a nice simple terminal emulator to use with tiling window managers such as i3? I'm using the xfce terminal right now, but that supports tabs which gets a little confusing since so does i3.

Load up tmux in xfce terminal? Will give you persistance also

I actually don't want any tiling to be done on the terminal level. I want to use my tiling window manager to tile multiple terminals, so I can move a tile between workspaces, monitors, etc.

The "problem" I'm having with the xfce terminal is that it supports tabs. It basically has too much features for me. And being the idiot that I am, I make use of them. Even though I'd actually prefer not to, so that instead I'll be using the features provided by my window manager.

It's a silly problem, I know. But the question is:

What is a performant customizable terminal that is dead simple? No tabs. No tiles. Just a single terminal window.

Or maybe I should just unbind the create new tab shortcut.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by tokenizerrr »

bitexploder wrote: post #5
tokenizerrr wrote: post #2

Apologies for the off-topic, but does anyone know a nice simple terminal emulator to use with tiling window managers such as i3? I'm using the xfce terminal right now, but that supports tabs which gets a little confusing since so does i3.

I just use gnome-terminal. It is fine. No chrome or trim. i3 and tmux to lay out terminals. If you don't like tmux, i3 is also very good at laying things out. Just turn off all the menus for something like gnome-terminal, which renders things like powerline fonts fine.

I'll check it out. Thanks. It does seem similar to xfce4-terminal with it also supporting tabs. Perhaps I should just unbind those shortcuts.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by theophrastus »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #2

Apologies for the off-topic, but does anyone know a nice simple terminal emulator to use with tiling window managers such as i3? I'm using the xfce terminal right now, but that supports tabs which gets a little confusing since so does i3.

The creators of i3wm provide a hint as to what they think might serve as good terminal implementations for i3 on their manual page[1]. Here's how the search sequence begins for a "sensible terminal": $TERMINAL urxvt rxvt termit terminator...

[1] http://build.i3wm.org/docs/i3-sensible-terminal.html

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by heywire »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #2

Apologies for the off-topic, but does anyone know a nice simple terminal emulator to use with tiling window managers such as i3? I'm using the xfce terminal right now, but that supports tabs which gets a little confusing since so does i3.

Urxvt seems to be a popular choice among i3 users. I'd recommend checking Reddit (r/unixporn) for some example screenshots showing various configurations common to i3 users.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by peterisza »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #6
w0m wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Load up tmux in xfce terminal? Will give you persistance also

I actually don't want any tiling to be done on the terminal level. I want to use my tiling window manager to tile multiple terminals, so I can move a tile between workspaces, monitors, etc. The "problem" I'm having with the xfce terminal is that it supports tabs. It basically has too much features for me. And being the idiot that I am, I make use of them. Even though I'd actually prefer not to, so that instead I'll b…

Evilvte is small and configurable in the source code, you can easily compile it without tabs.
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