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?
Beto ( @beto@lemmy.studio ) English24•11 months agoI’ve been using Alacritty for a while. It’s fast and does everything I need.
dino ( @dino@discuss.tchncs.de ) English4•11 months agoAlso using this one for years now, don’t see a reason to change, although I see some “foot” in conjunction with wayland quite often.
slowbyrne ( @slowbyrne@beehaw.org ) English3•11 months agoSecond, gotta love the new rust based tools and apps getting developed. Although I’ve seen some weird formatting issues on windows. Linux version is solid though.
banazir ( @banazir@lemmy.ml ) 19•11 months agoI’m happy with Konsole. Don’t think I’ve customized it any. TEs by and large just get the job done.
Bipta ( @Bipta@kbin.social ) 9•11 months agoI 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.
lckdscl [they/them] ( @lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats ) English18•11 months agoWezterm for me, I like the multiplexer that comes with it.
Glome ( @Glome@feddit.nl ) 6•11 months agoIt works cross platform on every machine including windows with a single lua config and the documentation feels complete.
frgl ( @frgl@feddit.de ) 17•11 months agofoot
I only changed the colors and the font to Fira Code.
offby1 ( @offby1@infosec.pub ) 14•11 months agoSwitched 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
dotslashme ( @dotslashme@infosec.pub ) English3•11 months agoSeconded, easy to use, easy to configure and does what it’s supposed to do.
dino ( @dino@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•11 months agoCare to elaborate what alacritty does differently than foot?
offby1 ( @offby1@infosec.pub ) 1•11 months agoIt’s written in C and is a bit more minimalist. Builds faster than alacritty, and is pretty even with alacritty in perf.
dino ( @dino@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•11 months agoAlacritty is written in rust. 😎
Bakarel ( @Bakarel@lemmy.ml ) 9•11 months agoI use kitty and alacritty most important thing is editting the dot profiles in bash or zsh to get color codes for things and autocorrection.
hallettj ( @hallettj@beehaw.org ) 7•11 months agoI 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.
ryannathans ( @ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net ) 2•11 months agoHow 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
rotopenguin ( @rotopenguin@infosec.pub ) English1•11 months agoLunar 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.
Snowcap7567 ( @Snowcap7567@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months agoI 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•11 months ago
Gnome terminal. I’m just used to it.
AngryDemonoid ( @AngryDemonoid@lemmy.lylapol.com ) 8•11 months agoI use Yakuake and Konsole since they came along with KDE Plasma. I’ve never really thought about using anything else, but maybe I should…
Lettuce eat lettuce ( @Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ) 7•11 months agoI haven’t needed anything different than Konsole, it works great for me.
nayminlwin ( @nayminlwin@lemmy.ml ) 7•11 months agoBeen using foot for like 4 years.
sin_free_for_00_days ( @sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ) 7•11 months agoI 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. davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) 3•11 months agoThe perfect terminal is the vt320. (I keep one plugged in to my router, since I can reach any machine from there.)
holland ( @holland@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months agoI’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.
Hemlock ( @Hemlock@lemm.ee ) 1•11 months agoI like tilix for… the tiles (and quake mode).
boyi ( @boyi@lemmy.sdf.org ) 6•11 months agoUsed 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.
Nathan Campos ( @nathanpc@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months agoGnome 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.
thepiguy ( @thepiguy@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months agoI use kitty. I don’t use its multiplexer features, but I do use its emoji picker a lot.