Kitty and Konsole
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I like Konsole.
It comes with KDE, supports tabs, themes, and loads very fast.
I don't really need more from a terminal than that. When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij (previously I used tmux).
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.
Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport's Terminal 2.
I don't have one specific as my favorite anymore and currently use Konsole from KDE. If you like tinkering with files and want it highly customizable through configuration files instead a gui, then probably Kitty is the best (and the closest to being my favorite). Alacritty is also a good one, but its quite simple and lacks some features in my opinion. I didn't try too many, but these 3 are the top three I would consider using in the ~~feature~~ future.
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
I too am a terminator+fish user!
I'm on the Alacritty/Tmux/ZSH train. Haven't any issues, other than font scaling differences between laptop and desktop UW monitor.
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.
I use blackbox, looks nice and can customize shortcuts. https://itsfoss.com/blackbox-terminal/
This. It feels like what the new gnome-console ought to have been.
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.
I use Hyper because it’s pretty simple to setup the way you want it and carry the config across OSs.
Tilda, because I can bring it down my screen with one key any time.
hey, that's what I like yakuake
for!
Terminator and zsh shell with oh my zsh
https://medium.com/@ferhatsukrurende/terminator-zsh-ohmyzsh-58ba4303bd09
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.
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~~ ~~no acceleration~~ it claims it has good font management, but fonts never worked properly in my experience.
Alacritty and Foot are also popular for their performance. Alacritty does have some stability issues though.
Kitty does use GPU acceleration
Wezterm is my daily driver.
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.
Sounds a lot like Yakuake for KDE Plasma.
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
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.
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.
None, they all have pros & cons.
The most popular in the Linux space is probably Alacritty & Kitty.