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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 gnunn »

sjmulder wrote: post #4

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…

Tilix has an option to control the terminal titlebars style to make it smaller or hide it completely. One of the screenshots on the web page shows it without the terminal title bar.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by orf »

I've been using this for the last two years as a replacement for terminator. It's pretty damn good if you like splitting your terminals up and don't use tmux.

It used to be called something else, but a company with the same name made a copyright complaint.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by teddyh »

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.

What’s wrong with xterm?

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by cauterize »

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.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by dsr_ »

tapoxi wrote: post #30
sjmulder wrote: post #4

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 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.

The GNOME design team is like that about everything. They believe that their way is best... until the next major version, whereupon their new way is best.

In any case, they aren't interested in providing choice for users with different tastes. Either you like what they give you, or you should go elsewhere.

I went elsewhere.

XFCE is still pretty configurable.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by zipperhead »

I've been a long-time user of terminator on linux. I started playing around with tilix a couple of months ago, and really liked it.

Interestingly though, what I finally realized is there is a huge amount of value in ditching both and switching over to tmux. Tmux does everything that tilix does but is completely independent of the underlying terminal. What I finally realized is that tmux is not just about persistent sessions - the screen/pane management along with completely keyboard-based navigation and history/copy/paste commands just blows the tiling terminals away.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by doogle88 »

zipperhead wrote: post #46

I've been a long-time user of terminator on linux. I started playing around with tilix a couple of months ago, and really liked it. Interestingly though, what I finally realized is there is a huge amount of value in ditching both and switching over to tmux. Tmux does everything that tilix does but is completely independent of the underlying terminal. What I finally realized is that tmux is not just about persistent s…

Exactly. I gave up on tiling window managers after I learnt to use tmux. I was really only using tiling for my terminals anyway. I had to rebind some tmux keys though to make it more i3 like.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by placeybordeaux »

zipperhead wrote: post #46

I've been a long-time user of terminator on linux. I started playing around with tilix a couple of months ago, and really liked it. Interestingly though, what I finally realized is there is a huge amount of value in ditching both and switching over to tmux. Tmux does everything that tilix does but is completely independent of the underlying terminal. What I finally realized is that tmux is not just about persistent s…

I'm largely in the same boat, but I use nvim instead. I already learned how to manage panes and tabs in vim so once the terminal mode came out I went ahead and gave a try switching.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by saysjonathan »

zipperhead wrote: post #46

I've been a long-time user of terminator on linux. I started playing around with tilix a couple of months ago, and really liked it. Interestingly though, what I finally realized is there is a huge amount of value in ditching both and switching over to tmux. Tmux does everything that tilix does but is completely independent of the underlying terminal. What I finally realized is that tmux is not just about persistent s…

I came to the same conclusion. I wound up making a small tmux lib for dwm-style pane management: https://github.com/saysjonathan/dwm.tmux

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by ktta »

If tiling terminals aren't your thing, I'd suggest giving guake a go. I've been using for a year now, and none of the other emulators have come close to making me switch.

Protip: Use the shortcuts wisely, it makes it much better to use. I personally use + and - on the keypad for new tab/close tab and End to hide/unhide.

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