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I'm looking for a new terminal. What's your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tilda, because I can bring it down my screen with one key any time.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I like Terminator for its mouse-controlled multiplexing. I also like the fact that it's made with Python, although I haven't utilized this fact in practice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Once upon a time, I loved Xfce Terminal. It use light and complete for the use-case I had. Then I wanted something that looked nicer with vin. So I started looking for an alternative.

I used alacrity for a long time (4 years). Then, I found kitty provided some nice stuffs that simplified the workflow for remote servers thanks to special ssh commands and session tabs. I used kitty for about 2-3 years. One thing I missed was that it's hard to integrate with other software because it implementa all it's crazy "kitty protocols" and pretend to use them even if they're compleynon-standard.

Recently, some misterious bug appeared and made it impossible to use. I switched to wezterm. I liked it could be configured in Lua, so it feels more coherent with my neovim configs. I just missed the mappings for switching terminal and send "!!" (i.e. execute last command). The special commands for copying custom configs on any ssh server was also missing, but it's easy to make a script for that. I haven't experienced too much with integrating it with other tools, but I suspect it's not better than kitty in this.

I gave a chance to konsole last week. I just asked myself why we (neovim users) all look for Gpu-accelarated stuffs. The improvement in performance is negligible actually. However, konsole is super-well integrated in the OS, with a scratch terminal (yakuake), file managers (dolphin, konqueror), text editors (Kate), and even simple browsers (konqueror). It provides all the features of wezterm. I still lack a key map for sending "!!" to a specific terminal, though. But I think the integration it offers is superior to that niche feature (that can be paired within neovim, btw).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Ptyxis because it's fast, modern, user-friendly and follows modern GNOME UI, and as a second alacritty

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm on the Alacritty/Tmux/ZSH train. Haven't any issues, other than font scaling differences between laptop and desktop UW monitor.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
  • St if I use X11 wm
  • Konsole if I use KDE
  • Foot if I use wayland wm
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

9term is what I use the most. Once you get used to the Plan9 way, you kind of like it. Sometimes I use Terminator as well. Konsole is like Terminator, both are good. They are both nicer than kitty for me. I tried kitty, went back to Terminator as it has menus to edit things, not just a text file.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why? I'm using xterm since 1990, they all are the same more or less

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Favorite terminal? iTerm2 on mac, hands-down. Wish they would port it to Linux.

On Linux though, I usually end up using guake, as I like having easy drop-down global access to my terminal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if it's Plasma dependent, but I love using yakuake on my laptop for the convenience of pressing F4 and it just popping up. I know there are shortcuts for making a terminal pop up, but I really like how yakuake closes itself when you click out of it.

Couldn't tell you about the technical side of yakuake, but I will say I just love the convenience more than anything else.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Usually whatever fits in best with the DE I'm using. I'm on Pop!, so that's Gnome Terminal currently. I'm excited to see when System76's Pop!_OS's COSMIC Desktop will bring with an alacritty-based terminal emulator.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use ddterm. It's a gnome extension that adds a Drop Down Terminal. I quite like how easy it is to bring it up and hide it again, at the press of a button. You can even hide it without closing it, so it's great for testing web apps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Sounds a lot like Yakuake for KDE Plasma.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

None, they all have pros & cons.
The most popular in the Linux space is probably Alacritty & Kitty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like Tilix, since it lets me split the terminal with a keyboard shortcut and easily switch between terminals too. I tried using GNOME terminal + tmux, but having to hit Ctrl+b before the command I wanted got tedious fast.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

What's my favourite terminal? The one that fits my desktop environment. When I used XFCE I used its terminal, when I used i3 I used kitty, and now I use blackbox on Gnome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I use kitty, specifically because of the icat kitten (that draws images on the terminal) and its integration with the lf file manager's preview.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Wezterm. Featureful like kitty but supports bitmap fonts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I like Terminator,
for it's ability to split one terminal window into as much as you want:
https://gnome-terminator.org/

In combination with Fish shell,
for it's auto completion + syntax highlighting:
https://fishshell.com/

And lastly, BobTheFish,
a nice git-aware powerline theme to go along with it:
https://github.com/oh-my-fish/theme-bobthefish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I too am a terminator+fish user!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Love me some fish! Though for more complex data processing, I'm working on learning nushell. Being able to work with more complex data structures is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Kitty and Konsole

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wezterm. I started out on konsole, and was happy with it, but then I started using zellij as my terminal multiplexer. Although zellij allows you to configure what command copies and pastes text, copy/paste on wayland and windows only works by default with wezterm. It gives me consistency across multiple DEs/OSes, with minimal configuration, which is good because I was setting up development environments for many people, with many configurations

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

mintty (windows)

xterm (linux)

termux (android)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Foot is the fastest and I use it as default. Second is Kitty because it uses GPU acceleration.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is tmux not cool anymore, haven't seen anyone say anything about it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Currently: foot

Especially for the server mode and the resulting fast startup of footclient.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I've tried a lot of them over the whole history of Linux, but what I use now is kitty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Mine is yakuake simply because it's a drop down one so it integrates well into my desktop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Call me lazy, but I like terminal 1. Usually shortest distance from the station building.

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