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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] 1 points 10 months ago

QTerminal, xterm, and of course, the good ol' Linux console when I don't wanna do anything graphical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Urxvt, it supports unicode

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Whatever starts with Ctrl+Alt+T 😁

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

I use foot because it's wayland native and the developer is a very nice person. Only thing missing from it for me is ligature support.

A close second for me is WezTerm. It is very full featured, although I do not use a lot of its features. Developer is also extremely nice and helpful. It does have ligature support.

I personally use tiling window managers, so I have no need for built-in tiling / tabbing features.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

guake and conemu

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Heathrow terminal E. Whops wrong community

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Favourite? Windows terminal.

Favourite Linux compatible? Vs code integrated terminal.

The one I actually use on Linux because viscose integrated terminal is not standalone? Konsole, just because it's the default In kde.

EDIT: may I know why I got downvoted? Just because I have an unpopular preference? Is this reddit?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

As much as I hate Windows, Microsoft etc, I also have grown to like the Windows Terminal. Kitty is my true favorite but Windows Terminal is a close second due to the tight integration with WSL and Microsoft's cloud stuff as well as theme support and some other things.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Ptyxis, formerly Prompt. I used urxvt for many years but eventually settled on GNOME Terminal after transitioning to the GNOME environment for most of my devices. Ptyxis is a slick and quick container-centric GTK 4 terminal that fits well with my Fedora Silverblue container-based workflow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I do a ton of work on my homelab from my iPad with Blink Shell, and if I had to pick a favorite terminal, it would be Blink. I know this kinda falls outside the goal of your question, and with that in mind, after Blink, my favorite is Konsole.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Used to use it a lot. However these days I prefer window'd terminals that popup with a keyboard shortcut. To answer op. I use konsole atm. Usually that suffices, I don't know what features I'm missing but I keep an eye on Warp. Tempted to write my own /again./

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I use tmux a lot, but it’s not my default/favorite. More like a favorite tool in the terminal kit.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'm in the Alacrity+Zellij cargo cult

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I want to say Alacritty+zellij but have not even tried that lol.

Konsole. It just works, has profiles etc. I highly recommend to change it to "launch every window in same process" to avoid multiple windows, create a new desktop entry replacing "konsole" with "konsole --new-tab".

And also learn Desktop actions, its very cool!

I have a profile with different colors that starts in my Distrobox.

my example desktop entry

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
TryExec=konsole
Exec=konsole --new-tab
Icon=utilities-terminal
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;
Actions=FedoraBox;root;ssh;
X-DocPath=konsole/index.html
X-DBUS-StartupType=Unique
X-KDE-AuthorizeAction=shell_access
X-KDE-Shortcuts=Ctrl+Alt+T
StartupWMClass=konsole
Keywords=terminal;console;script;run;execute;command;command-line;commandline;cli;bash;sh;shell;zsh;cmd;command prompt
Name=Konsole
GenericName=Terminal
Comment=Command line access

[Desktop Action FedoraBox]
Name=Distrobox
Icon=fedora-logo-icon
Exec=konsole --profile Fedora-Box

[Desktop Action root]
Name=root Terminal
Icon=folder-root-symbolic
Exec=konsole -e pkexec $SHELL #or define a shell

[Desktop Action ssh]
Name=ssh to X
Icon=folder-remote-symbolic
Exec=konsole -e ssh user@IP:PORT -i /path/to/key

Plasma will still display "open new window" which will instead open a new tab. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+t will also open a new tab, just as opening from Dolphin etc. Perfection!

Note that Konsole will pull in tons of dependencies, you may want to use XFCEs Terminal if you dont want that. Alacritty has no tabs which I find annoying (I hate windows).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Call me lazy if you like, but I use GNOME terminal. Comes as standard with my distro. Does what I need. Supports fonts that aren't pixel fonts and has various look and feel tweaks accessible by GUI if I really want to get in there. I do that once after every fresh install and it's been a while since then.

Given that I loved a bit of Quake back in the day, you'd think I'd like drop down terminals like ddterm and Guake (which might not work on Wayland?), but weirdly no. I like it in a box I can move around.

I also keep the ancient xterm installed just in case and for when I get nostalgic for the old pixel fonts, but it's not exactly my go-to.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I like kitty because:

  • multiplexing
  • more minimal than DE terminals
  • fast
  • can display images natively
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Mmm yes so fast and feature rich

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I granted I haven't tried any outside of what comes pre-installed on whatever DE I'm currently using, but yeah Konsole is the best

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Would be foot, but I'm using a font with ligatures so it's kitty

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Wezterm, because it lets me easily disable all keymaps and then reenable only those few that I use. I use tmux to handle most things, and with wezterm I don't have to worry about tmux clashing with wezterm's krymaps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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] 4 points 10 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm on pop, swapped to kitty. It's a good step up over GNOME's

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Kitty, hands down. GPU accelerated; native image protocol implemented by ranger, neofetch, and more; incredibly customizable; multiplexing with multiple windows and tabs; ligature support; and much more

If anybody has any questions about it, swing on over to Kitty Terminal Emulator [[email protected]]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I've been using it for a while now, and it is fine. But it is very often that I open htop and kitty is one of the big cpu wasters. Maybe I've configured something wrong? But yeah, sure, works.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Wezterm. Featureful like kitty but supports bitmap fonts.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

ST - Simple terminal https://st.suckless.org/

Because I agree with suckless philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Can't argue with that, minimalism is based. (I say this as a non-minimalist)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

My favourite is foot. Minimal, fast, easy to configure. Wayland-only though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

How do you copy/paste to/from xterm?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Terminology with the Nyan Cat cursor! :3 ^.^

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

ADM-3A for beauty and the vim keys.

TRS-80 DT-1 for weirdness.

IBM 5251 for beam spring keys.

DEC VT320 because library nostalgia.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

XFCE-Terminal. Small, lightweight, Wayland if you use it and plenty of config without cryptic dotfiles.

Plus popularity due to it being the XFCE default and contributed towards by the XFCE team.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well I'll throw in my endorsement for kitty. I like the ligature support, the fact that it can be configured to hide all UI, and it uses text files for configuration that I can put in my dot files repo.

There are some particular features that I use constantly:

I can yank a file path to the prompt from previous output by pressing ctrl+shift+p then f then a 1-character label. I can do the same with a git hash (or other hash) by pressing h instead of f.

I can scroll back and search previous output using only the keyboard with ctrl+shift+h which puts the terminal history in a pager.

I can get the output of only the previous command in a pager with ctrl+shift+g. Or jump to previous prompts with ctrl+shift+x and ctrl+shift+z.

I use kitty-scrollback.nvim which replaces that pager with neovim so I can use all of my editor features to search history, copy what I want, etc.

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