Tilda: The gaming style terminal
Well its been ages since my last real post, but life and twitter have been keeping me busy. Ever since I started using computers every 5 months or so I get board of my current computer setup and start to look at my other options, this can be anything from replacing a program, to changing my OS. This makes Ubuntu’s six month release cycle perfect for me because I can get get tired of my current setup in 5 months start messing with my computer then reinstall with the latest release of Ubuntu. I have found many grate programs this way like Miro, and Geany, and I love both of them dearly. Well I have found a new love to add to that list: tilda.
While the tilda website sucks including unfound images on the homepage the program is great. The idea of tilda is to provide the user with a “terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life (to name a few)”[1]. The great thing about this is that it lets you collapse a lot of your terminals into one terminal (I’m sure I will still have a few terminals open to monitor things that I’m running) but in general it lets you map a hot key to pull down a notebook of terminals (like the tilda(~) would do in the games mentioned above).
Before Tilda
After Tilda
I really do love this application and it gives me a neat new way to interface with my computer. It is perfect for when I am programing and I want to then quickly switch to the terminal to compile my program now instead of <Alt> + <Tab> I can use <Super> + <Space> and bring down my terminal.
For those of you still running hardy you may want to upgrade to the latest version (yes those instructions will work with the latest version) but even then there are still a few features I would like to see mostly I would like each desktop to have its own terminal’s (right now they all share the same ones).
What apps do you love?
Just to mention for the KDE lovers there is yakuake for that.
Yea, yakuake is really nice. It’s based on konsole, so whatever you can do in the new konsole, you can do in yakuake (such as transparencies). And everyone keeping in mind, you set the default key to what you want when you first run yakuake. You GNOME-heads can use yakuake too!
Neat, thanks guys for the comment the yakuake dev team seems to be more alive as well
, now if only I could get into kde.
The Tilda dev team is alive! Sort of… I have a couple patches to add, automatic hide, ability to configure all shortcut keys and ability to change the color palette and then a release will be made. So, its hopefully not too far off. Then to figure out what happened to the wiki…
@Tristan Sloughter Thanks for the update and its a really nice app, keep up the good work!
Guake (http://guake-terminal.org/) does the same thing. It worked a little better for me.
@Walther Thanks, to bad its not in the repos. /me gets his compile on so that I can try out another.
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Hey, this is Valdas from ECE385. I stumbled upon your site from one of your e-mails. I found your list of software very useful, especially Tilda. Keep up the good Ubuntu work, I love the distro
I bound the “show/hide Tilda” key to the pause/break button. The reason is that it is not a letter key and it is a rarely used key making it an excellent candidate for Tilda.
Before anybody else points it out, many systems bind the pause/break key to the “take a screenshot” function. I guess some people do enough screenshots to require a whole key dedicated to it.
@U thats a good key, thats the great thing about linux is that it is easy to map your shortcuts to whatever you want, I’m not sure you can remap the Alt + f2 run shortcut in windows.