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Tilix – tiling terminal emulator using GTK+ 3

Tilix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.

Tilix was previously known as Terminix.

Tilix is free and open source software.

Features include:

  • Layout terminals in any fashion by splitting them horizontally or vertically.
  • Terminals can be re-arranged using drag and drop both within and between windows.
  • Terminals can be detached into a new window via drag and drop.
  • Tabs or sidebar list current sessions.
  • Input can be synchronized between terminals so commands typed in one terminal are replicated to the others.
  • The grouping of terminals can be saved and loaded from disk.
  • Terminals support custom titles.
  • Color schemes are stored in files and custom color schemes can be created by simply creating a new file.
  • Transparent background.
  • Background images.
  • Quake mode support (i.e. drop-down terminal).
  • Custom hyperlinks.
  • Automatic (triggered) profile switches based on hostname and directory.
  • Supports notifications when processes are completed out of view. Requires the Fedora notification patches for VTE.
  • Experimental trigger support (Requires patched VTE).
  • Experimental badge support (Requires patched VTE)

Website: gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer:
License: Mozilla Public License 2.0

Tilix

Tilix requires the following libraries to be installed in order to run:

  • GTK 3.18 or later (Tilix 1.8.3 or later, earlier versions supported GTK 3.14).
  • GTK VTE 0.42 or later.
  • dconf.
  • GSettings.
  • Nautilus-Python (Required for Nautilus integration).

Tilix is written in D and GTK 3 using the gtkd framework.

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