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what is the best linux terminal? I have been using alacritty for years and have been doing well. But I don't think kitty and st. I was wondering if any new projects have come out in recent years.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I consider st a great choice when using i3 or dwm. Customizing it takes time, but RAM usage is what I usually check and in case of st it is comically small.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Surprised nobody mentioned Yakuake. Just discovered it's just for kde. Been using it for years. It hides at the top of my screen and slides down when the cursor hits the top. Full desktop when not used and can access it no matter which app I'm using.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

all of the fancy features that other terminals provide, I get with Tmux, so any emulator for me. I like transparent themes and that's easy to set up in Alacritty, so that's what I usually get

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had to switch recently because I wanted to try out font ligatures and it turns out Alacritty refuse to implement support for that 😬

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

oh I think I've come across that yeah. not a fan of them personally, so not something that I would notice lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Not a new project, but I feel is often overlooked: Sakura. I’ve fallen back to it repeatedly over the years. It is lightweight, opinionated but sane. Not as brutalist as st. I combo it with Tmux using powerline with little tweaking.

It uses standard libraries and stays out of the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Foot is the best

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I usually just get by with Alacritty and Zellij, pairs pretty well together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I use the one that comes with my DE, but if I am using a WM I use kitty

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm somewhere between Kitty and Ptyxis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Ptyxis is default on Bluefin, which I'm on now.

Recommend. Really nice container integration with distrobox.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Using ptyxis even on KDE, it’s neat. Very clean and some interesting integration with distrobox, definitely recommend.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

foot for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's between konsole and kitty for me. Both are great.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alacritty is fine. If you're not combining it with tmux and zsh/fish, id pluck those fruits first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tmux was too complicated for me so I'm using Byobu instead

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Tmux with a few custom key bindings is amazing. Kind of a learning curve, but not nearly as difficult as something like Vim.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Tmux with a few custom key bindings

Yeah, like I said: Byobu! :p

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Konsole is awesome and has great integration with Plasma ofc. I'm surprised to see it barely mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Alacrity or foot (foot has less features but it's faster)

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

Xterm for me. As others have shown there are other ones that are newer than that but Xterm has become my favorite.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The one with your distro shipped with

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If they care about terminal emulators, it's unlikely their distro came with one preinstalled.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Terminator for me. It has tiles and tabs and does everything I need.

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