Re:Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
by aapjesverkoper on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:35AM
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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.
Here is the pull request for scroolback, it is still open:
Evilvte is small and configurable in the source code, you can easily compile it without tabs.
And it's dead. For something dead simple, you can also write your own terminal (based on libvte, like many existing terminals): https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2017-write-own-terminal.
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 be using the features provided by my window manager.
It's a silly problem, I know. But the question is:
What is a performant customizable terminal that is dead simple? No tabs. No tiles. Just a single terminal window.
Or maybe I should just unbind the create new tab shortcut.