What is Germinal?

Germinal is a minimaliste terminal emulator based on vte and tmux.

It starts as a maximised borderless window which allows you to have a “fullscreen” terminal not overriding your status bar.

The default startup command attaches a tmux session, but it’s customisable through dconf.

The default startup command requires you to have a ~/.tmux.conf file containing

new-session

This will cause tmux to automatically start a new session if you use tmux a and none exists.

How do I get it?

Germinal is available on github

Version 7 release tarball is available here, get it while it’s hot!

What’s new in this release?

• port to new vte API

I hope you’ll enjoy it. Feel free to propose new features and/or to contribute!