Install Terminix Terminal Emulator on Ubuntu 16.04. Terminix is a GTK3 Tiling Terminal Emulator for Ubuntu Linux Systems. Terminix Emulator is based on the gnome-terminal VTE widget.
Terminix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:
- 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
- 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
- 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
The application was written using GTK 3 and an effort was made to conform to Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). As a result, it does use CSD (i.e. the GTK HeaderBar) though it can be disabled if necessary. Other than Gnome, only Unity has been tested officially though users have had success with other desktop environments.
Terminix GTK3 Terminal Emulator
The latest version of Terminix GTK3 Terminal Emulator brings support for background images. It also features limited support for automatic profile switching and option to globally disable shortcuts. Not only this, it also has an option to automatically copy text to clipboard when selecting and numerous bug fixes.
Install Terminix Terminal Emulator
Run the following commands in Terminal to install the latest version of Terminix GTK3 Tiling Terminal Emulator:
sudo apt-get install wget unzip libglib2.0-bin
cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/gnunn1/terminix/releases/download/1.1.0/terminix.zip
sudo unzip terminix.zip -d /
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
Once installed, open it from Ubuntu Dash. If you cannot see an icon, restart the system.