I have recently jumped head first into the Linux space. I’ve installed Arch on my daily driver and I’ve become overwhelmed/overjoyed with my options. I’d like to hear from the community about your Linux favorites.
What is your favorite Terminal Emulator and what have you done to customize it?
I’ve been using Alacritty for a while. It’s fast and does everything I need.
Also using this one for years now, don’t see a reason to change, although I see some “foot” in conjunction with wayland quite often.
I’m happy with Konsole. Don’t think I’ve customized it any. TEs by and large just get the job done.
I looked quite a bit. Konsole is king for me.
My only complaint is the SSH profiles don’t always work as intended, but that’s just a theming thing.
Wezterm for me, I like the multiplexer that comes with it.
It works cross platform on every machine including windows with a single lua config and the documentation feels complete.
foot
I only changed the colors and the font to Fira Code.
Switched from alacritty after using it for a year or two to foot. Does what it’s supposed to well, and not a bunch of other shit
Seconded, easy to use, easy to configure and does what it’s supposed to do.
Care to elaborate what alacritty does differently than foot?
It’s written in C and is a bit more minimalist. Builds faster than alacritty, and is pretty even with alacritty in perf.
Alacritty is written in rust. 😎
I use kitty and alacritty most important thing is editting the dot profiles in bash or zsh to get color codes for things and autocorrection.
I second kitty. I switched from urxvt to konsole to get support for ligatures. Then I switched to kitty because it also has ligatures, it’s faster than konsole, and it’s easier to configure with version-controlled files.
I don’t do very much customization: font, line spacing, color scheme, and a couple of custom key bindings.
How do you get modern kitty on ubuntu based distros? I’m on pop os and there are no ppas or packages within the last few years
Lunar Lobster has 0.26.5, which is from November. Coulda gone with something a little fresher, but it isn’t that severely out of date.
I also use Kitty with the Fish shell and the Tide plugin. Looks quite fancy compared to the standard terminal.
- Rikudou_Sage ( @rikudou@lemmings.world ) 8•1 year ago
Gnome terminal. I’m just used to it.
I use Yakuake and Konsole since they came along with KDE Plasma. I’ve never really thought about using anything else, but maybe I should…
I don’t do much customizing at the terminal. Currently I use
alacritty,terminator, andst. Every few years I go through a searching-for-the-perfect-terminal and get frustrated at various shortcomings.
The perfect terminal is the vt320. (I keep one plugged in to my router, since I can reach any machine from there.)
I haven’t needed anything different than Konsole, it works great for me.
Been using foot for like 4 years.
Used to be termite for its minimalist feature. Now that it’s gone I move on to Wezterm. Occasionally I use alacrity to connect to armbian nodes because it can’t recognize wezterm. I hate kitty, not because of the terminal itself, but the dev. There is a snarky comment at github issue made by kitty’s dev when people request for a termite-like feature. It drove me to uninstall kitty straight away.
Serial port hooked up to my oscilloscope
I’m using Tilix right now, mostly because it’s the best of the very few that support touch scrolling. Since I’m using my Surface Pro as a tablet a lot of the time that’s an important feature to me.
I like tilix for… the tiles (and quake mode).
Gnome Terminal when I’m in GNOME, Konsole when I’m in KDE, and plain old xterm for i3 and any other WM. These just feel like they fit just right into their respective DE/WM.