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 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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