I want my Tilix to be started with 2 split on right and two splits on bottom.
I highly expected this to be available through preferences, but only found a command input. Then using
tilix -a session-add-right made a session creating-and-terminating loop which didn't help.
Surprisingly, there indeed appears no direct way to indicate Tilix to always start with a certain configuration. You can achieve it in a somewhat more convoluted way. Key is to save a .json configuration file of your current session, then load Tilix with that session using the --session option.
Open Tilix, and open splits the way you want. Then hit Ctrl+S to save the session. Specify a name for the .json configuration file. You could save the configuration file for example as .config/tilix-split. You can then open tilix with
tilix --session=~/.config/tilix-split.json
in the desired layout.
▶ To conveniently launch tilix this way in a terminal, you can create an alias:
alias tilix="tilix --session=~/.config/tilix-split.json"
▶ To launch it this way from a keyboard shortcut, specify the full command for the keyboard shortcut.
▶ To launch it this way from your application menu, you need to customize the launcher of Tilix:
/usr/share/applications/com.gexperts.Tilix.desktop to the folder .local/share/applications under your home folder.Exec=tilix to Exec=tilix --session=~/.config/tilix-split.json.
