Install Tilix GTK3 tiling terminal emulator on Ubuntu / Debian

What is Tilix?

Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+3. It is more advanced than default Terminal with great features. Provides the customization and many more features, so here are the great features of Tilix.

• Layout terminals in any fashion by splitting them horizontally or vertically
• Terminals can be rearranged 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
• Quake mode support (i.e. drop-down terminal)

So, after reading the features now we will move toward the Installation process. Tilix can be installed on major Linux distributions such as Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Solus, Arch, OpenSuse, etc. See the main dependencies here:

• GTK 3.18 or later (Tilix 1.8.3 or later, earlier versions supported GTK 3.14)
• GTK VTE 0.42 or later
• dconf
• GSettings
• Nautilus-Python (Required for Nautilus integration)

Install Tilix GTK3 tiling Terminal on Ubuntu / Debian

As the official Tilix packages are available for stretch-backports, buster & sid repositories, so run the command

sabi@Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt install tilix
 [sudo] password for sabi: 
 Reading package lists… Done
 Building dependency tree       
 Reading state information… Done
 The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
   fonts-liberation2 fonts-opensymbol
   gir1.2-geocodeglib-1.0 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0
   gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gir1.2-gudev-1.0 gir1.2-udisks-2.0
   grilo-plugins-0.3-base gstreamer1.0-gtk3
   libboost-date-time1.65.1 libboost-filesystem1.65.1
   libboost-iostreams1.65.1 libboost-locale1.65.1
   libcdr-0.1-1 libclucene-contribs1v5 libclucene-core1v5
   libcmis-0.5-5v5 libcolamd2 libdazzle-1.0-0
   libe-book-0.1-1 libedataserverui-1.2-2 libeot0
   libepubgen-0.1-1 libetonyek-0.1-1 libexiv2-14
   libfreerdp-client2-2 libfreerdp2-2 libgc1c2
   libgee-0.8-2 libgexiv2-2 libgom-1.0-0 libgpgmepp6
   libgpod-common libgpod4 liblangtag-common liblangtag1
   liblirc-client0 liblua5.3-0 libmediaart-2.0-0
   libmspub-0.1-1 libodfgen-0.1-1 libqqwing2v5 libraw16
   librevenge-0.0-0 libsgutils2-2 libssh-4
   libsuitesparseconfig5 libvncclient1 libwinpr2-2
   libxapian30 libxmlsec1 libxmlsec1-nss lp-solve
   media-player-info python3-mako python3-markupsafe
   syslinux syslinux-common syslinux-legacy
   usb-creator-common
 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
 The following additional packages will be installed:
   libgtkd-3-0 libphobos2-ldc-shared78 libvted-3-0
   tilix-common
 Suggested packages:
   python-nautilus
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libgtkd-3-0 libphobos2-ldc-shared78 libvted-3-0 tilix
   tilix-common
 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
 Need to get 10.8 MB of archives.
 After this operation, 51.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
 Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Now, go to Activities & search for Tilix as shown below:

Open it to run Tilix.

Now, you can customize your Tilix and enjoy the comfort.