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boxi --edit (and the associated desktop file association) allows boxi to function as a text editor by opening a new window and spawning $EDITOR on the named file. If you open a file which is already open, the existing window will be brought forward.

The original plan (not yet implemented) is to add support for tabs (via libadwaita) and group all editor windows (and possibly also terminal windows) from a given session into a single window. This would turn boxi into something resembling a minimalistic IDE. The key feature here would be that you could type boxi --edit file.py from any terminal window and get a tab opened and focused (or raised, if it exists) for that file. At that point you might usefully define a very short shell alias.

boxi --edit will attempt to raise an existing window in the event that the file is already open. This currently doesn't work, because there's nothing to wire the timestamp from the user pressing the enter key through to boxi to be passed back (via D-Bus) to boxi to be allowed to raise its own window.

It's not clear what a good solution here would look like. This might require patching VTE, implementing some sort of OSC sequence, or some D-Bus service associated when the application window, in order to allow launched programs to get access to the timestamp of the most recent keystroke.

Is there a way to choose dark theme for Boxi while Gnome is using light theme?

I'm using Gnome with light theme but my Fish shell theme is Dracula (a dark theme).

Dracula shell theme is unreadable with light background. This isn't a problem with Gnome Terminal, because I can choose dark theme for it. But I can't find a way to set dark theme for Boxi.

So, Boxi with light background (because Gnome is using light theme) turns the shell unreadable.

Cool stuff! :)

I noticed there is a minor typo in the README.md:
commandline should be written with a space: command line.

You may want to consider fixing it :)

Inspiration: Boxhagener Platz, in Berlin

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.51078/13.45957

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Boxhagener+Platz/@52.5108668,13.4595849,240m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1

Here's a highly abstract version with colors of the components of the "square" rounded to GNOME colors, attempting to adhere to the GNOME Icon design guidelines:

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