What's the advantage over Terminator [0] ? [0] https://gnometerminator.blogspot.nl/p/introduction.html ?
Seems to have saner handling of saved/loaded profiles and color schemes. Also the session switcher seems nice.
Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
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Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#32Cool 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.
You can hide the os x dock. And with spotlight - you can almost forget it exists..
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Does it have backscroll yet? Without that it's kind of the wrong way around in what features it lacks.
Like, People who want to run every session in tmux (but don't care about using a tiling wm) don't need scrolling, tabs, or splits. People who want to run their terminals in i3 also don't want tabs or splits, but they do need scroll or else they have to duplicate effort on both sides just to get scrolling.
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#34It seems to me that terminals are one of those things that handles the most sensitive of details on a server. No offense to the project (which looks very nice), but shouldn't we prefer a terminal emulator that has been well audited for security issues?
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#35What'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.
Not true. Terminator is still being actively development (albeit somewhat slowly). GTK3 support was completed earlier on in the year and I've personally been using it daily since.
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#36What'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
#37I just installed tilix-bin from AUR. It has a blinking cursor that cannot be unblunk in the preferences? In that case, tilix is not for me…
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#38It seems to me that terminals are one of those things that handles the most sensitive of details on a server. No offense to the project (which looks very nice), but shouldn't we prefer a terminal emulator that has been well audited for security issues?
Probably, are you going to start on that? It's not like someone's holding a gun to your head and telling you to use it. You can do it yourself, wait, or not use it. There's so many options for this situation.
Here's the code: https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/
Another cool trick is to use zero trust mentality and get the secrets to the box without having to copy/paste/type/view them through your terminal emulator.
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You can hide the os x dock. And with spotlight - you can almost forget it exists..
Indeed! Most power-users I know (and more than one non-computery-person) completely disregard the dock.
The only reason I ever look at the dock is to open minimized windows, and even for that I usually opt for the 'see all windows of current app' gesture.
That said, the dock is very useful for most tech-illiterate people I know.
Re: Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
#40So essentially this is terminator but a bit better looking?