Install Tilix (Terminix) on Linux, a Beautiful Terminal Emulator with Many Features
Tilix is a Terminal app emulator with various additional capabilities and features. Tilix, previously known as Terminix, is based on GTK3. Tilix was created following the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG).
Terminal Application emulator it’s light enough that it goes really well powerful, Tilix also has a beautiful appearance that can be customized as you wish and has a myriad of features that can make it easier for you to use it.
Tilix lets you run more than one Terminal session. You can run the session by pressing the “+” button in the section bar over applications such as opening a new tab in web browser. You can also easily switch from one session to another from menu bar the.
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| Session On Tilix |
Then Tilix also allows to make multiple panes, where you can create multiple panels or sections in one session. These panels can be created in an unlimited number, you can easily divide the Terminal into sections or panels horizontally or vertically.
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| Multiple Panes On Tilix |
Tilix too customizable, you can customize Terminal emulator Tilix by creating or adding profile new. You can change the font, font size, color, appearance, add background on Terminal and so on by using the Tilix Terminal emulator application.
In addition to these features, there are many other capabilities that Tilix has, such as notifications, supports naming titles, each session can use a different profile, the size can be adjusted in different ways. drag and drop and can be used as dropdown Terminal and many other capabilities.
Install Tilix on Ubuntu and Derivatives Using PPA Repository
If you are using Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04 and its derivatives such as Linux Mint 8.x and others. You can install Tilix on your computer using a PPA repositories.
Open Terminal on your computer by pressing the combination keyboard CTRL + ALT + T or open Terminal via the application menu.
Then enter the following command in Terminal to add the PPA repository from Tilix. You cancopy the command and paste on Terminal by pressing the combination CTRL+SHIFT+V:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/terminix
Wait for the add process repository until finished. Then do updates to update the list repository and list applications by entering the following command in Terminal:
sudo apt-get update
Wait for the process updates until finished. Then install Tilix by entering the following command in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install tilix
Wait for the installation process to finish and make sure it’s not there error during the installation process. If the installation is complete and successful, you can open Tilix through the application menu and start using it.
Install Tilix on Linux Using Source Code
In addition to installing via PPA, you can also install Tilix from using the source code directly. This method can not only be done on Ubuntu or its derivatives, but also on other Linux distributions.
Download file source code from Tilix on the following Tilix Github page. download source code from Tilix in the form of a zip file called “tilix.zip”. After the download process is complete, the downloaded file will be in the Downloads folder.
Open Terminal on your computer, because the downloaded file is in the Downloads folder, enter the following command in Terminal to enter the Downloads directory:
cd ~/Downloads
If you have successfully entered the directory where the file is located, then first extract the zip file by entering the following command in Terminal:
sudo unzip tilix.zip -d /
Then after successfully extracting the file, do compile source code from Tilix by using the following command in Terminal:
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
Wait for the process compile until it’s done and make sure it works well. When you’re done, you can run and start using Tilix by opening it via the application menu.
