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Here are the common frequently asked questions about Terminix.
At this time there is no 32 bit version of Terminix available. Building and testing on 32 bit is a significant effort that we'd rather devote to development. The number of people using 32 bit Linux on the desktop is rather small and shrinking all the time so we feel it's the right choice at this time. Having said that, if someone wants to build and test Terminix on a 32 bit platform we'd be happy to accept any PRs to fix 32 bit issues.
My background is in Java and J2EE and while I do some Python programming (via Jython), I have a preference for statically typed languages in the C family. I've played around with D in the past and have been impressed with it's language design and efficiency in comparison and coming from Java it was relatively easy to learn. Finally, D has a very complete GTK binding in the form of GtkD whereas other languages I considered (Go and Rust) do not.
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.
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.
Having said that, Issue #12 is open with respect to incorporating tabs into the interface and will remain open to allow users to comment on it.
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.
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.