Switching from Tilix to WezTerm

Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator for Linux. It supports splitting panes, named sessions, and a password manager integration. Tilix is not in the CachyOS repositories, though it is available in AUR, but requires gtkd which also has to be built from AUR (and has been broken several times). Tilix also have some issue if the terminal gets too busy, namely using a lot of CPU. WezTerm is the replacement chosen, it is GPU-accelerated, actively maintained, and configured entirely in Lua. ...

April 3, 2026 · 8 min · alj

Change the default terminal emulator in GNOME 3

After using Linux Mint with Cinnamon for a long time I am now back with Ubuntu with GNOME (reluctantly, I may add). One thing I have noticed is there does not seem to be an option in the settings to change your preferred terminal emulator. Luckily it can be changed in several other ways, The generic fix in a terminal, write $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec tilix In this case I have changed to the Tilix terminal emulator. ...

October 29, 2017 · 1 min · alj