Is there something like this but for mac?
Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
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Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#22Earlier 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…
I have been using Alacritty for a couple of weeks now, it seems to match your wishes: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#23Apologies 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've had good luck with Sakura (it's possible to turn off all chrome if you want):
http://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura
[ed: That said, I now notice that Tilix appears to be written in D, which should point to it avoiding a few C/C++ pitfalls. ]
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#24What's allowing the terminal to display the current git branch on the input line?
What's allowing the pretty path view instead of my ugly ascii "~/blah1/blah2$ ?
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#25What's allowing the terminal to display the current git branch on the input line? What's allowing the pretty path view instead of my ugly ascii "~/blah1/blah2$ ?
The shell, likely zsh with a special prompt config
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#26This is quite off-topic, but I'd like to point it out: please disable subpixel anti-aliasing of fonts in images you upload to webpages. Subpixel anti-aliasing only works when the image is displayed at 1:1 zoom on a display with the same RGB subpixel arrangement. It fails on high-dpi displays, pentile displays, rotated displays, etc. and produces very noticeable rainbow fringing on the letters.
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#27What's allowing the terminal to display the current git branch on the input line? What's allowing the pretty path view instead of my ugly ascii "~/blah1/blah2$ ?
Most shells let you do some arbitrary work before/during the display of the prompt line (in Bash, you can use `PS1` and `PROMPT_COMMAND`). Some people then install special fonts that let them render these fancy “bar segment” things. [Powerline](https://github.com/powerline/powerline) is a notable package for this, but there’s a lot of simpler alternatives out there nowadays.
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#28Cool 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 have always found Gnome's design to be horrible - the goal of the windowing system and desktop environment is to direct as much attention as possible to the application in focus; to be absolutely as minimal as possible to get the job done. This is also why I feel the osx dock is atrocious.
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#29What's the advantage over Terminator [0] ? [0] https://gnometerminator.blogspot.nl/p/introduction.html ?
Terminator has not been updated in 9 years, suggesting a lack of maintenance, and is stuck on GTK2, which means no native Wayland support. Tilix, on the other hand, is active, GTK3-based, and works natively on my Gnome Wayland desktop.
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#30Cool 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 feel like people have been complaining about the massive GNOME 3 title bars for at least six years, but the GNOME design team seems incredibly stubborn and unwilling to listen to feedback.