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by tremaali 3099 days ago
Better integration with multiplexers like tmux and screen. Thus I get native window boundaries for easy copy&paste with a mouse. I think iTerm2 can do this on macOS but no Linux/BSD-one. There is terminator which has this functionality but it does its own thing and doesn’t use a multiplexer in the background. Essentially terminator but with tmux and Screen (both for choice of the user…even though I think tmux is superior) in the background, so that I can let sessions run in the background and have them available when I connect via ssh or have them survive when the WM should crash. In addition I am a sucker for theming. Thus easy themability and an easy way to import and export themes. With 256 colors of course and not only 16. Otherwise I am pretty uninagimative because most of the stuff is handled by the shell anyways and I need to ssh into servers all the time, so for stuff like auto-completion the terminal would need to have knowledge about the remote server as well which would be problematic probably. Easy ways to resize - not only drag and drop but give me a way to enter dimensions when I am on a legacy machine which has only screen and I have to share a session with someone. And it would be neat to save session layouts. So that the terminal opens up my last session with 10 terminals placed on the right positions on my screen (but tmux-integration might solve that already) and maybe even remembers which servers I connected to last in which terminal. So when I restarted my computer I open the terminal and it starts to connect already my ssh-sessions. It is really annoying when I restart my machine and have to reconnect to a dozen servers and arrange all the terminals.