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Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by madamelic »

ktta wrote: post #109
madamelic wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guake is pretty killer, I'm an avid user myself. My one big issue is this bug ( https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/45 ) which has an air of the user being wrong and the terminal being fine. There are a few other nitpicks like the lack of search (no clue if other terminals have search, but it is a feature I would kill for).

Search? What do you mean? Search inside the terminal?

Yeah, like Ctrl-F on output.

I work on website crawlers for fun and being able to search terminal output is something I'd die for. :)

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by Tom4hawk »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #66
placeybordeaux wrote: post #52

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What attack vector are you thinking of that makes a terminal emulator more vulnerable than any other piece of GUI software?

idk, perhaps passwords?

So which one (from those audited) do you recommend?

It's using fairly well known library (VTE), it's open source so it's not that easy to sneak something in. Situations when your terminal emulator (it's not a program facing Internet) can be compromised: 1. you have something malicious on your computer, 2. you have something malicious on you server. But imho in both situations you already have bigger problems than your terminal emulator...

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by mgbmtl »

vidarh wrote: post #98
mgbmtl wrote: post #82

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Gnome is relatively easy to customize with CSS (at least in recent versions, I think after 3.20). I wrote some quick notes about it here: https://www.bidon.ca/fr/random/2017-02-25-customizing-gnome-... It also has an inspector, so you can find the right class name as you would when doing CSS in a browser. I have to admit that I also tried developing an extension ( https://github.com/mlutfy/hidetopbar ), which I found…

Interesting, but it looks like that depends on running gnome-shell? The instructions there for triggering the inspector doesn't seem to work for gnome-terminal for me for example (not that I tried very hard to debug why), running under i3wm. Running gnome-shell itself just isn't something I'd consider - I want my tiling wm.

I think it should work for all GTK applications. This page has a few more tips: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK+/Inspector

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by ronjouch »

pkaye wrote: post #93
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…

how do you get cut and paste working with tmux? it seems to intermingle text among the different panes.

As other macOS commenter mentioned, total pita, yeah. Under Linux you need this line of command+xsel voodoo: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmux#X_clipboard_integr...

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by godd2 »

capitalsigma wrote: post #106
godd2 wrote: post #99

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There is a branch of Terminator which supports tmux integration.

Link? Google doesn't turn up too much except an old bug report. I switch haphazardly between terminator (sitting at my desk) and tmux (sshing in); I'd love to unify it.

Here's the branch for it:

https://code.launchpad.net/~andfagiani/terminator/tmux

And here's the discussion of it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1301605

You can see in comment 18 how to use it.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by SubiculumCode »

Tom4hawk wrote: post #112
SubiculumCode wrote: post #66

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idk, perhaps passwords?

So which one (from those audited) do you recommend? It's using fairly well known library (VTE), it's open source so it's not that easy to sneak something in. Situations when your terminal emulator (it's not a program facing Internet) can be compromised: 1. you have something malicious on your computer, 2. you have something malicious on you server. But imho in both situations you already have bigger problems than you…

You know, I am no security expert. I was posing a question.

I frequently see HN comments question security of a number of applications, none of which are as critical an interface with production servers as the lowly terminal. For example, a recent replacement for ls was highlighted on HN, and there were questions of whether one would want to install use an untested application due to security concerns. In the case a terminal, it seems to be even a bigger potential issue since it is what one frequently types passwords in for sudo. I am quite surprised at the tone of comments.

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by destructionator »

andmarios wrote: post #64

If you have to access the terminal frequently, a dropdown terminal emulator is the way to go. Press F12, the terminal comes down. Press F11 it goes to full screen. Press F12 again, it retracts. I use yakuake and can't imagine life without it.

I just set the menu key (right side next to the windows and ctrl key) to pop up a new instance. Then I can type whatever command I need!

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by karlding »

pkaye wrote: post #93
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…

how do you get cut and paste working with tmux? it seems to intermingle text among the different panes.

A quick and dirty way of doing it, assuming the currently active pane is the one you want to copy text from:

1. Enable pane zoom ( z)

2. Enter copy mode ( [)

3. Select and copy text

You can also look into the tmux-yank [0] plugin, which copies to the native system clipboard.

[0] https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

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Post by tapoxi »

rvern wrote: post #72
tapoxi wrote: post #30

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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.

You think so? https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2014/08/27/gnome-design-saving-...

But this post compares against GNOME 2.x, which was equally awful about wasting space. It doesn't compare against Windows or OS X, which are much better with screen real estate and let you easily hide the taskbar or dock to recover more.
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