gala
Gala Window Manager for elementary OS and Pantheon (by elementary)
terminal
Terminal emulator designed for elementary OS (by elementary)
| gala | terminal | |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | 11 | |
| 272 | 396 | |
| 0.4% | -1.3% | |
| 9.2 | 8.1 | |
| about 8 hours ago | 3 days ago | |
| Vala | Vala | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gala
Posts with mentions or reviews of gala.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-23.
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Look who's there
Or with some manual compiling of things: https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-Wayland
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Auto tiling
As you can see here, here, here and here some work was done long ago to introduce different tiling options but this feature was never top priority for head dev.
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Layout differencies eOS 5.1.7 vs. eOS 7
it was broken here https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1304/commits. I'm too lazy to revert that code but it's possible to fix the gtk2 dimm bug (which possibly also fixes the rest too)
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Multitask view issues eOS7
Report this issue on GitHub, please https://github.com/elementary/gala/issues
- Rounded window corners in pantheon??
- Gala 7.0.1 Released
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Elementary OS 7
[2] https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-W...
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Can one write pantheon extensions (like for gnome-shell)?
For hiding applications from overview, or showing only windows of the focused app you would need to patch gala, the window manager. It is written mostly in vala, and uses libmutter (the same lib for gnome-shell's window management) underneath. Apparently it has a "plugin" system, but I'm not versed enough that those plugins have to be there at compile time or can be separately compiled. Here's the code: https://github.com/elementary/gala
- Does anybody know if the Pantheon desktop has fullscreen unredirection?
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What exactly would a port to Wayland entail?
There’s a link to a wiki on that project board with that info :) https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-Wayland
terminal
Posts with mentions or reviews of terminal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-04.
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Created this script so I can take a nap during the compilation
https://github.com/elementary/terminal notifies you when a process completes and the terminal is not the active window. I implemented this feature way back in... 2014 or so. I'm surprised it has seen little uptake in other terminals, but I can't imagine working with long-running processes without it nowadays.
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Color issue in new version of Terminal
Please file issue reports and open feature requests on GitHub so they can be tracked and the dev team is made aware: https://github.com/elementary/terminal/issues
- Terminal F5 change
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Is Linux Actually becoming More Popular?
Some terminals have that feature built-in (I think its called 'natural copy and paste'). For example, this one has it.
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Make terminal change it's theme according to the system theme in elementaryOS 6.
This is planned and just needs some design work and then to be implemented. The current code for style schemes I'm Terminal and Code both are pretty complicated to support arbitrary styles under the hood, so it will also likely need some rewriting of that whole system. You can see a previous attempt at it from me here, though a more experienced desktop developer could probably clean it up a lot: https://github.com/elementary/terminal/pull/546
- Transparency Bug in GNOME Terminal in Wayland Session
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Discussion: Terminal's color palette wouldn't pass Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 for color contrast for text legibility. Should the palette change to improve legibility?
Although it doesn't fully resolve the problem you explained, there is a PR for custom palettes -- https://github.com/elementary/terminal/pull/542 -- but it doesn't seem to have been merged into the mainline at all, likely due to the upcoming dark mode stuff in elementaryOS 6.0.
- Elementary OS rounds out its first decade
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One PR a month: February and March
One of the things I like about elementary is the care taken with UX. For instance, for less experienced users pasting random commands in the terminal is a sensitive operation, specially if these commands involve administrative privileges. For this reason, elementary's terminal app shows a warning when the user pastes commands involving sudo or with newlines.
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Padding around text in terminal?
This is actually something we're addressing in Terminal for elementary OS 6. You can check this pull request to see our discussion and the end result: https://github.com/elementary/terminal/pull/527
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gala and terminal you can also consider the following projects:
files - File browser designed for elementary OS
avizo - A neat notification daemon
photos - Photo viewer and organizer designed for elementary OS
mail - Mail app designed for elementary OS
elementaryos-firefox-theme - This theme for Firefox supports all the window buttons layouts from Tweaks and it blends into the elementary OS user interface.
dippi - Calculate display info like DPI and aspect ratio
eddy - A debian package installer for elementary OS
music - Music player and library designed for elementary OS
calendar - Desktop calendar app designed for elementary OS
catts - Catts is a calmer alt + tab task switcher for elementary OS 6 (Odin).