Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Version: 1.0.0 (as tagged in git) or newer from the 'stable' branch (see https://github.com/gnunn1/terminix/issues/25) URL: https://github.com/gnunn1/terminix License: MPL
Terminix is a tiling terminal emulator. It is more or less similar to Terminator (which is already shipped by Debian). Unlike Terminator, which still uses Gtk+-2 and its matching ancient buggy and unmaintained libvte9 for terminal emulation, Terminix is based on the newest Gtk+-3 and libvte-2.91. Terminator as a project is also pretty much abandoned, whereas Terminix is actively being maintained. After significant amount of development and testing-bugfixing, version 1.0.0 has just recently been tagged in git. It has a decent UI, a neatly organized prefs window, and cool features such as a session sidebar. It is also, according to my best knowledge, the first libvte-2.91 based terminal emulator that brings back the popular feature of background image (which is no longer explicitly supported by libvte-2.91, but could be hacked around by placing an image behind a transparent vte widget). (This was committed shortly after 1.0.0.) I believe Terminix is a great replacement for Terminator, an actively maintained project providing a nicer user interface, better overall experience, and most importantly, a significantly newer and better behavior for the actual terminal emulation. Thanks, egmont