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

  • 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    I like terminology

    It’s quick, gpu accelerated, can natively display images, and I’m not sure what else.

    I don’t use the rest of enlightenment de but have stuck with terminology for years

    • Capricorn@lemmy.today
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      8 months ago

      What are the benefits if Gpu-accelarated terminals? From my understanding, that’s a really negligible difference.

  • Ofosho [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

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

    • Corngood@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      This is me too, but I just switched to alacritty from urxvt (due to some new bug with control characters).

      I prefer my terminal to purely show text, and I use tmux for all the fancy stuff.

  • edric@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

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

  • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    My favorite is Alacritty but I don’t use it because of stability issues lol. Kitty is popular now. It seems to have some questionable update policy but it’s fixable. It supports plugins (kittens), tabs and most of the common features. Though the configuration is done in a text file. It doesn’t have a GUI for it. For that I’d recommend Konsole

    • F04118F@feddit.nl
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      8 months ago

      I agree that Konsole are Kitty are both lovely terminals that are very configurable. Kitty for text file people vim enthusiasts and Konsole for GUI lovers.

      By “questionable update policy”, do you mean that it is updated by the package manager when installed from official repositories but it has an auto-updater functionality for users installing it manually?

      IIRC someone who compiled from source but didn’t set the flag/config to disable the auto-updater was surprised about that.

      I don’t see the big deal of it to be honest. The vast majority of users will be installing through the package manager. If you compile from source, you can decide yourself whether you want it to auto-update. The whole point of compiling from source is the extra control, not the defaults, I’d guess. Unless you don’t know what you are doing and the package was not available for your distro and in that case, enabling auto-update by default even serves that user group.

      • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        It’s more about the fact that the Kitty’s developer rudely and aggressively refused to disable automatic updates after a ton of requests. Some people just don’t use certain software if they don’t like the developer

    • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Most things in Linux are configured via text files. It’s one of the main principles of Linux; store configs in plain text files. Saves us from having to use awful tooling like that of the windows registry. Even most GUI config settings are just manipulating a text file under the hood.

        • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Well yeah. But would you rather a GUI that stores the settings in easy to read and manipulate plain text files; Linux, or an archaic GUI that manipulates raw data and often breaks and is hard to understand; Windows registry.
          Even if you prefer GUIs, you’d probably still want the data stored in plain text files for the sake of simplicity and consistency.

    • Kata1yst@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      I like kitty, but it’s configuration system is completely nuts.

      Alacritty was good, but had weird issues with fonts for me.

      I ended up on Wezterm. Lots of modern features, performance, stability, and awesome configurability.

      • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        I can’t remember all of them but now I have a weird issue that when I open Alacritty there’s some loading going on in the background for quite a few seconds which I can even see on the cursor (I think it’s “xdg” that’s loading) and even reinstalling the system didn’t help

        • Elsie@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Oh I think I know what you mean. Did you try setting your shell to something like sh instead of bash or zsh and see if it was a shell startup issue?

            • Elsie@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              8 months ago

              And your default shell is a POSIX compliant shell, usually dash or ash, so that’s what I mean by sh. You can set it in ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml with:

              [shell]
program = "/bin/sh"
  • Bankenstein@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Wezterm is my favourite because it’s really configurable and supports ligatures. Konsole is also quite nice. Generally I’m in favour of using whichever one comes with your DE, or Wezterm if you use a WM.

    Kitty is probably the most popular one, but I don’t like it cause no ligature support.

    Alacritty and Foot are also popular for their performance. Alacritty does have some stability issues though.

  • mac@infosec.pub
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    8 months ago

    iterm2 is near perfect on macOS, for Linux I usually use Alacritty or Foot

  • Tekhne@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

      • Sidewalker@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        Damn this was my first thought too.

        Someone pass me an AARP card and a Costco-sized tube of ointment…

        • cerement@slrpnk.net
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          8 months ago

          I think Openbox is the main survivor of the *box WMs – Openbox has become pretty much the default choice for small Linux distros, either with a few utilities like crunchbangplusplus or BunsenLabs or as the base of a lightweight DE like LXDE/LXQt

    • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      This. It feels like what the new gnome-console ought to have been.