Linux

Xterm

Alacritty, launching tmux with fish shell. The latter shell could easily have been zsh. But a good and fast terminal w/tmux is such a nice thing to have.

Any time to wish you had bothered with tmux, is when it's already too late. If you go for this, you'll never look back.

Kitty, it's fast and for the most part works out of the box

Kitty, because I like cats and GPU go brrrr

https://www.warp.dev/ 😁

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

Kitty, cute name and logo

Konsole. It meets all my needs.

konsole with tmux

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.

Alacritty because it's a minimal black rectangle, perfect for using with a tiling WM

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

I've used Alacritty for a long time, but I am looking to switch since they moved to TOML for their config file. The migration they advertised did not work, and looking for some sample files took me to a GitHub issue thread where the devs are just... dicks. It was rather easy to write a new config file from scratch, but their attitude is just ridiculous.

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).

• St if I use X11 wm
• Konsole if I use KDE
• Foot if I use wayland wm

Yakuake

Konsole. Never had the need to explore alternatives.

foot

terminal? i think you'll find its a terminal emulator, haha! /s

i like kitty, its fast, simple, and supports ligatures.