FAQ

Here are the common frequently asked questions about Terminix.

User Interface

Why are the terminal title bars so large?

Terminix complies with the Gnome HIG and the UI of terminix is inspired by Gnome Builder. At some point we hope to add an option for a compact user interface that would reduce the titlebars and some of the other ui elements but at this point it is a low priority feature.

Why aren't sessions displayed as tabs?

While we don't have anything against a tabbed user interface, we really wanted to try something different with Terminix. Most text editors use tabbed interfaces for navigating between open files, Gnome Builder is trying something different in this regard and we were curious to see how well this would work for a terminal emulator.

Notifications

What are notifications?

Terminix has a feature whereby it can send a notification to the desktop when a long running processes ends and terminix is not visible. Additionally, if terminix is the top level window but the process ended in a session which is not visible terminix will display the notification in the header bar.

Why aren't notifications working for me?

Currently notifications in Terminix required a version of the VTE widget that was patched by Fedora. This patch has not yet been accepted by upstream but is available in some other distributions such as Arch. In Arch it is available via the vte-notification-common and vte3-notification packages.