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Terminator.
I use the broadcast, zoom, grouping, and the guake/yakuake style dropdown. Also it has layout switching like xmonad, ie you can ctrl + space to cycle pane layouts.
Gotta love terminator. I also always greatly appreciated how uncluttered and to the point its ui was, while being modern and configurable.
Foot terminal on wayland, wezterm on MacOS
Foot and alacrity
xterm on X11 (urxvt is also good but no true color support), foot on wayland
Konsole
I used (u)xterm for like 20 years before discovering that Konsole is solid and beautiful. My whole tiling setup is backed up with KDE apps now.
Foot if you're on Wayland, alacritty if you're not.
For those kitty users, have anyone been able to use fonts not in the list kitty support? I only use Terminus (OTB) fonts on terminal, and when trying kitty out, I found no way to get it to use Terminus (I could only select between those supported by kitty).
Kitty can’t use bitmap fonts because of how it draws to screen & bitmap fonts don’t scale. You would need a different terminal for bitmap fonts or choose a different font.
It looks like, though OTB (opentype bitmap fonts) are different than plain bitmap fonts, and are actually supported by pango. Alacritty allows me to use Terminus OTB fonts for example. There are other true type fonts which are also sort of my plan B, which are not supported by kitty either, as mentioned, I wanted to see if there's a way not just to select between the list kitty offers, which is sort of limited. At any rate if not Terminus, I don't really like much my plan B true type fonts much...
I moved to Iosevka (custom) a few years back after a) switching to Kitty & b) realizing my eyesight was getting worse so I needed a bigger font than what Terminus provides
I'll take a look at iosevka fonts, thanks !
BTW, moved to iosevka myself, now my current preferred font for both, the console, and fixed fonts...
Many thanks for the suggestion @[email protected]
Foot!
I don't know the difference between a terminal and a terminal emulator, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
Lately using Foot since that's what my distro shipped with.
Wezterm. I love some of it's features (quick search).
Alacritty (with tmux if I need a multiplexor)