Ability to add padding to the terminal

[Markus Hallfors]

Something like "padding: 10px" to the config file would be nice addition.

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

I'm not clear (in graphical terms) what you are asking for. Perhaps a mockup?

[Markus Hallfors (destroyerko)]

Maybe this mockup helps.

For example in GNOME terminal you can just add this to gtk.css to get the same result:
VteTerminal,
TerminalScreen {
    padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
    -VteTerminal-inner-border: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

OK. As a utilitarian it seems a waste of valuable pixels to me ;-)

Perhaps someone agrees with your sense of aesthetics and will figure out how to do this. As a hint to that person, the 0.28 VTE has a style property for inner-border. It's not clear code-wise how to do this in 0.38+ vte.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

I think if Terminator ported to 0.38+ then the gtk.css fragment above would automatically work for Terminator too. I'm not sure what'd be the benefit of a Terminator-specific config option in its own config file.

Note that -VteTerminal-inner-border is for <=0.36, padding is for >=0.38.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

So, for the gtk3 branch (vte >= 0.38):

As said above, the CSS that needs to be applied goes something like:

VteTerminal {
    padding: 10px;
}

or four parameters in the usual CSS top-right-bottom-left order if different paddings are desireable for each side (nb. with overlay scrollbar [bug 1512106] it might make sense to have a larger padding on the scrollbar's side so that it's not that much overlaid after all).

As for how to apply such a CSS from the code, see the patch from bug 1518069.

[Markus Hallfors (destroyerko)]

Just changed to the GTK3 branch and now that it reads the gtk.css file, I got what I wanted :).

This can be closed, as the feature is coming in the gtk3 branch.

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Awesome!

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Beginning with gnome 3.20 / vte 0.44, the CSS selector needs to be "vte-treminal" rather than "VteTerminal". Go for

VteTerminal, vte-terminal {
  padding: ...;
}

to be compatible with both.