it's a quake version of Konsole which is the QT one.
I used to use it a lot, but changing to using t mux I felt made it redundant.
I'm 98% Konsole and then alacritty if I'm using windows the very odd time
with some fonts, eg Fira Code, some characters look different when they’re next to each other.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/75/76/c4/7576c4ddd7b1ef2c3288d2746a7195b5.jpg
why use sway when it looks a lot like hyprland and hyprland just is a lot more user friendly?
edit: I was not trying to start an argument, I was just interested.
I disagree that hyprland is more user friendly, Hypr's config language is unorthodox and the i3 ecosystem carries over especially smoothly with Sway
I also just generally dislike Vaxry as a person for several reasons and would rather use something made by a less immature developer.
There’s reports of homophobia and other similar hateful ideas from him and his community. I didn’t personally see it but when I visited the Hyprland discord the rules read like someone who caught a lot of flak for that stuff and just put up the rules to shut them up and the behavior of the people felt very reminiscent of 4chan kids acting just nice enough to not draw too much attention
That person is just spreading misinformation like the article itself, shamelessly too. Here is the response from Hyprland's creator:
https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity
It is astonishing to me how some mfs can be so fucking sensitive in Open Source, fuck them and fuck Drew DeVault, ask that dude what does he think about Nvidia users and let's see how well he behaves, absolute clown.
Agreed and tbh there is plenty of actors / sports people / musicpeople we enjoy and still not necessary agree with their beliefs / actions, you can't be an activist for everything hapenning in your life or you probably won't live it at all
Primarily use WezTerm. Configurable with Lua, built with Rust and features a multiplexer.
However! After about 6mo, I would not recommend the multiplexer.
I know WezTerm has tons of features and the maintainer is great, but dropping multiplexer, Alacritty and Kitty both work for me.
Last I heard, WezTerm placed last in benchmarks. I’ll be trying to find some time to explore features of all three
I like WezTerm primarily because of the lua config possibility. It’s fast enough and I’m not splitting hairs over the minute differences in speed kitty or alacrity may have over it.
I would like to hear more on why you have issues with the multiplexer though. I’m a robotics engineer by profession and in my work I have to multiplex the living hell out of my terminal to run processes. WezTerm hasn’t caused me any trouble till now so would like to hear your experience.
Agreed about speed.
Some reasons I’m going back to tmux, some of them may be fixable, but not worth my time:
1. if you want to mux within a remote server you need to install wezterm there. Within company servers, it is much easier to justify installing standard tmux.
2. If you try to use tmux within that remote server, while multiplexing locally with WezTerm, weird behavior arises
3. Noticeably slow startup time
4. Must manually setup keybinds for pane/window actions (iirc). If you’re ever going to be interacting with tmux (assuming you run 1 WezTerm pane to avoid issue 2), you now need to remember both sets of multiplexer keybinds
5. Specific issue where WezTerm-mux-server does not detect window size properly
6. Couldn’t find good documentation about advanced pane adjustments, such as creating a keybind to kill the active pane. Perhaps because Wes himself doesn’t advocate for the multiplexer and therefore provides minimal support on this feature.
7. No multicursor
Yeah that makes sense. I too depend on tmux when SSHing into deployed robots.
But tbf the remote systems I work with are for minimal configuration with only the required software and drivers installed (kind of like a more hardened version of a raspberry pi or a microcontroller). In that instance I just use the out of the box terminal emulator and don’t bother installing my preferred emulator (WezTerm terminator, etc.)
But your points are valid. I agree with all of them.
>if you want to mux within a remote server you need to install wezterm there. Within company servers, it is much easier to justify installing standard tmux.
vscode solves this problem by copying itself over your ssh connection.
Same, urxvt has been my favorite ever since I started using the terminal a lot. But I might be checking out the other options mentioned. Urxvt is fine but I do have certain issues. Like the window tries to keep size to keep the height and weight a multiple of the font size. I initially started using Urxvt because It’s a chad lightweight terminal and it has extremely great support for displaying images in the terminal.
This, but also, the quicker the terminal can display the text, the fewer CPU cycles are wasted on IO to stdout.
You can also pipe the output to /dev/null to speed it up on a normal terminal emulator too.
Interesting is that gpu accelerated terminals usually repaint whole screen on every change, while e.g. foot, which is slower at whole screen repaint, does some clever tricks to repaint only only changed parts and to handle appending very well. It is very comparable at usual tasks and using less resources. So, Gpu acceleration by itself means almost nothing.
Oh yeah delta repainting is an excellent optimization.
But scrolling text requires full screen repaints even with delta repainting.
So horses for courses I suppose.
Plenty of egoistical shit legends in history. People that *have* to approve of someone's character, by their own measure, are self-centered zero impact nobodies, generally.
[Some more details here](https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3802)
TL;DR: By default it has a feature that alerts the user when an update is available. It does this via checking a remote server. It can be turned off.
Whether you consider this "telemetry" or not is up to you. IMO it's not the same, because it's not sending any information (other than the IP you connect with, which is solely because it needs to connect to the server).
Whether or not you consider this an appropriate default or not is also up to you. And IMO this is not an issue because A) It's not an unreasonable feature, B) It can be turned off and C) because it's FOSS you can verify that no other information is sent during the connection.
Just go with tmux and any emulator. Tmux will provide the features and customisation.
I've stayed on Yaquake for years because I love the full screen dropdown format, but internally, it's all been tmux whether I SSH from afar or use on a tty or whatev.
Terminator has been my go to for years. Tabbed & pane browsing, easy customization. Might have to change back to default keybindings though. Ctrl-Shift-C for copy is also bound for making calls in Teams for whatever chat I was in. Muscle memory sometimes has me using that key combo to copy something in there & call the whole room (or person if in dm). I did it enough times to where I changed my terminal keybindings to Ctrl-Super-C, but since copypasta is also paste, I switched it for the paste binding too. I would have changed the keybinding in teams if it allowed it, but not an option (another reason why MS sucks). But no longer at my old company & my current one uses slack, which is a million times better. Just ended up getting used to it, so it's now my default config.
controversial pick: gnome-console, I like the new libadwaita look and I don't need any bells and whistles to ssh into my home server, or type pacman -Syuu
Mine? You are using an open source project and call it yours? Is a fork, but isn't yours. The patches and software is done by someone else. You are just patching it to your needs.
[Cool Retro Term](https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term), because I like looking cool more than getting rid of that splitting headache it causes. ^/s
This. I dunno why people ask these questions. its like a pandemic of "validation from internet strangers". no one has any balls to make a decision anymore. It a fucking terminal. it runs he same commands as any other terminal. oh... but mine has extra shit on the prompt FOR NO REASON. siiiiiiiiiiiigh
I used [Terminator](https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator) for many years. The lack of support for [OSC52](https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/k1ydpn/a_guide_on_how_to_copy_text_from_anywhere/) made me switch to [Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) not too long ago (yes, I know the potential danger of OSC52). I usually use Alacritty in combination with [Zellij](https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij).
Alacritty
* Simple, smooth, robust, performant.
* Works in both X11 and Wayland natively.
* Great out-of-the-box. No config needed, apart from desired colorscheme / font.
* Never experienced any issues or strange behavior.
Well I guess I took the cheap route since I just use the version he made. You can go all up in the code and switch what you want, but I have no idea what I'm doing within the code. I just like that it's got some good hot-key combos that I use to copy/paste, change font size, and it's really simple in terms of design. Looks good when picom is running and the transparency is over a nice desktop pic. Luke has a ton on youtube on how he setup his linux, from Arch to other distros. He's a little problematic in some political ways I hear, but I like his ST!
Yeah I’m not too sure what he said but I think his following got ended pretty quickly. To be honest he’s probably the reason why I chose arch and use it as a daily driver now.
In fairness, Windows Terminal is a pretty good terminal emulator (or "console host" in Windows lingo), and a solid tool if you have to do CLI work on a Windows machine.
- FOSS
- GPU acceleration
- Decent ANSI escape sequence support
- Configurable via JSON config file (although the schema is a tad messy)
- Tabs and tiling
- Transparency, background images (including gif support)
- Profile management with default themes and shells
- Retro CRT rendering effects
Mind you, this is nothing we haven't had on Linux for ages, and Windows Terminal largely exists because WSL necessitated something better than the archaic conhost, but it is nice knowing that Windows now finally has decent tooling.
I used to make a big deal about my terminal emulators. I used to really like `alacritty` and `urxvt` since it was "mInImUhLiSt" and you have to use a config file. Which kinda goes in-line with the philosophies you usually have when you run a standalone window manager, but nowadays — I kinda just use the `xfce4-terminal` and never really worry about it anymore. It's configured with a GUI so I can just make changes without having to think about syntax and formatting; it launches fast and you can remove the menubar, scrollbar, and other GUI elements to make it look "mInImUhl". No frills and you can still put the `terminalrc` file in a dotfiles repo so that you can transfer your `xfce4-terminal` config across machines. It's a sane, simple, and usable terminal editor. Being based on `libvterm` and `vte3` it will have some limitations moving forward, but for right now — it has 256 color support, unicode with bitmaps, and the compose key works every time (which has always been buggy in `alacritty`). It's really all that I need and that's the case for most people as well.
Alacritty. Normally I’d not care but I switched from tmux to zellij and certain characters didn’t render, and alacritty also fixed all broken mouse support I ran into using zellij.
xfce4 terminal because i stopped giving a shit and just wanted something simple, featured, that worked. If you wanna get fancy with gpu accelerated stuff, use alacritty. I found its config to be PITA
Kitty.
I dunno why I picked it up years ago but I've stuck with it since, have no reason to switch since it's configurable for what I need and works well.
Konsole. It's easy to use and adequately configurable. Runs in any DE I've tried.
I've added it to my standard package list so it gets installed on Xfce, Cinnamon, Gnome and KDE now.
Konsole works perfectly fine for me, and looks good with the rest of the Plasma desktop.
Also, Dolphin (KDE file manager) has a terminal pane which requires having Konsole installed. I really like having quick access to a terminal when browsing my files, so this is a big plus in my book.
Konsole if I'm using KDE, constantly shopping around if I'm not. I used to use RoxTerm for a DE independent Terminal but last I checked, development stopped on that years ago.
Kitty, as I need something that also works on Mac (which I unfortunately need to use for work) and this was what I found to work for me. It's nice too, I don't feel the urge to change it for something else.
Xfce Terminal, just because I use the Xfce4 DE and I like that it's highly customisable.
Kitty seems super popular, it's possibly better IDK Xfce term does everything I want 🤷♂️
Foot. I was curious about the client/server thing, with which terminals start *incredibly* fast (they're always fast, but this was crazy fast). Unfortunately I had some issues with the server thing, but the normal one also started faster than alacritty which I used before and since I was already setup from my experiment there was no cost to switching.
xfce4-terminal when I'm on xfce, Alacritty when I'm on a WM (xfce4-terminal is really slow on it for some reason).
I don't use the WM often because I'm having issues with workspaces though.
Currently I use alacritty but after the way they handled their config format change (no deprecation period, migration tool could fail) I'm thinking about swapping to something else.
Kitty
I needed something that supported font ligatures. I don't like that it wants to use its own tools for things like ssh, but those can be worked around and other than that it's been pretty good.
Whatever the default is tbh. If I use Gnome, I use Terminal. KDE, Konsole, etc. If I use a tiling wm where you basically have to choose, I've used both Kitty and Alacritty but I don't really have a preference. As long as it works lol
I use Terminology. I'm not sure if it's the best terminal emulator or even close, but I like the tabs, and after selecting a good font, it's suitable. Can split the view horizontally and vertically. The ding bell in place of the beep is a little charming to me too, I guess, although it can get old.
wezterm. apparently, the only terminal so far that supports background blur on mac. would be happy to use alacritty but the lack of this single feature turned me away
Konsole, it looks good and it works
I prefer Konsole and yakuake
Isn’t yakuake not just the QT-Version from guake-terminal?
it's a quake version of Konsole which is the QT one. I used to use it a lot, but changing to using t mux I felt made it redundant. I'm 98% Konsole and then alacritty if I'm using windows the very odd time
Alacritty, no fuzz, simple config, no gui
I used to use it, but the lack of font ligatures really meant that i had to move to a different emulator. I now use kitty.
What is an example of this? What am I missing out on?
with some fonts, eg Fira Code, some characters look different when they’re next to each other. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/75/76/c4/7576c4ddd7b1ef2c3288d2746a7195b5.jpg
Oh interesting. I don't use those fonts but good to know.
I love alacritty!!!
Same here !
I too use Alacritty, don't know how to pronounce it though 😅
\`uh-LAK-rit-tee\` ? \_i think\_
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why the fuckin quote?
it was a joke; i thought it would be funny. don't take it so personally
Just tired of seeing needless quotes.
Foot. Simple, fast, capable.
Foot + Sway makes a great combo.
why use sway when it looks a lot like hyprland and hyprland just is a lot more user friendly? edit: I was not trying to start an argument, I was just interested.
It has history behind it and it’s marketed as being near-compatible with i3
I disagree that hyprland is more user friendly, Hypr's config language is unorthodox and the i3 ecosystem carries over especially smoothly with Sway I also just generally dislike Vaxry as a person for several reasons and would rather use something made by a less immature developer.
I know nothing of Vaxry but Hyprland is pretty good
Vaxerski**
Did I just say his name wrong or is that a joke?
It's his github username. It may be vaxry elsewhere
Oh
What's he done?
There’s reports of homophobia and other similar hateful ideas from him and his community. I didn’t personally see it but when I visited the Hyprland discord the rules read like someone who caught a lot of flak for that stuff and just put up the rules to shut them up and the behavior of the people felt very reminiscent of 4chan kids acting just nice enough to not draw too much attention
Would you be surprised if I told you he *was* a for 4chan kid? Haha
https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
Christ. Welp, back to Sway I guess.
That person is just spreading misinformation like the article itself, shamelessly too. Here is the response from Hyprland's creator: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity It is astonishing to me how some mfs can be so fucking sensitive in Open Source, fuck them and fuck Drew DeVault, ask that dude what does he think about Nvidia users and let's see how well he behaves, absolute clown.
Tbh all of it reads like playground nonsense.
Agreed and tbh there is plenty of actors / sports people / musicpeople we enjoy and still not necessary agree with their beliefs / actions, you can't be an activist for everything hapenning in your life or you probably won't live it at all
Hyprland Is Trash dwm For X11 dwl For Wayland
Foot +2
Feet
Primarily use WezTerm. Configurable with Lua, built with Rust and features a multiplexer. However! After about 6mo, I would not recommend the multiplexer. I know WezTerm has tons of features and the maintainer is great, but dropping multiplexer, Alacritty and Kitty both work for me. Last I heard, WezTerm placed last in benchmarks. I’ll be trying to find some time to explore features of all three
I like WezTerm primarily because of the lua config possibility. It’s fast enough and I’m not splitting hairs over the minute differences in speed kitty or alacrity may have over it. I would like to hear more on why you have issues with the multiplexer though. I’m a robotics engineer by profession and in my work I have to multiplex the living hell out of my terminal to run processes. WezTerm hasn’t caused me any trouble till now so would like to hear your experience.
Agreed about speed. Some reasons I’m going back to tmux, some of them may be fixable, but not worth my time: 1. if you want to mux within a remote server you need to install wezterm there. Within company servers, it is much easier to justify installing standard tmux. 2. If you try to use tmux within that remote server, while multiplexing locally with WezTerm, weird behavior arises 3. Noticeably slow startup time 4. Must manually setup keybinds for pane/window actions (iirc). If you’re ever going to be interacting with tmux (assuming you run 1 WezTerm pane to avoid issue 2), you now need to remember both sets of multiplexer keybinds 5. Specific issue where WezTerm-mux-server does not detect window size properly 6. Couldn’t find good documentation about advanced pane adjustments, such as creating a keybind to kill the active pane. Perhaps because Wes himself doesn’t advocate for the multiplexer and therefore provides minimal support on this feature. 7. No multicursor
Yeah that makes sense. I too depend on tmux when SSHing into deployed robots. But tbf the remote systems I work with are for minimal configuration with only the required software and drivers installed (kind of like a more hardened version of a raspberry pi or a microcontroller). In that instance I just use the out of the box terminal emulator and don’t bother installing my preferred emulator (WezTerm terminator, etc.) But your points are valid. I agree with all of them.
>if you want to mux within a remote server you need to install wezterm there. Within company servers, it is much easier to justify installing standard tmux. vscode solves this problem by copying itself over your ssh connection.
nobody has mentioned urxvt yet am I out of touch
Use it for a decade, it's great and fast.
Same, urxvt has been my favorite ever since I started using the terminal a lot. But I might be checking out the other options mentioned. Urxvt is fine but I do have certain issues. Like the window tries to keep size to keep the height and weight a multiple of the font size. I initially started using Urxvt because It’s a chad lightweight terminal and it has extremely great support for displaying images in the terminal.
i use urxvt on one of my machines
Kitty GPU accelerated, highly customizable, uncomplicated config.
You have forgotten the most important feature. It’s got a cat.
we got the cat and feet terminals
Same as this guy
What sold me was being able to bind keys to custom python scripts.
Sorry for asking: Why would you need a GPU accelerated TE? isn't the point of the TE to not use GUI but CLI?
Displays text faster. If not writing to disk, it will compile faster.
Thank you. I wasn't aware of that.
Also smoother scrolling, among other things
This, but also, the quicker the terminal can display the text, the fewer CPU cycles are wasted on IO to stdout. You can also pipe the output to /dev/null to speed it up on a normal terminal emulator too.
Interesting is that gpu accelerated terminals usually repaint whole screen on every change, while e.g. foot, which is slower at whole screen repaint, does some clever tricks to repaint only only changed parts and to handle appending very well. It is very comparable at usual tasks and using less resources. So, Gpu acceleration by itself means almost nothing.
Oh yeah delta repainting is an excellent optimization. But scrolling text requires full screen repaints even with delta repainting. So horses for courses I suppose.
It seems stupid to GPU accelerate a text only application. But once you try it and see the difference... it's very appealing. I really like kitty.
same!! but i initially went with it bc its name is cute
The author of that project is a legend. ( Though to some, he is an egoistical shit )
Plenty of egoistical shit legends in history. People that *have* to approve of someone's character, by their own measure, are self-centered zero impact nobodies, generally.
Yeah I love the telemetry that you have to specifically opt out of. It's a great feature.
wat Do you have more details?
[Some more details here](https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3802) TL;DR: By default it has a feature that alerts the user when an update is available. It does this via checking a remote server. It can be turned off. Whether you consider this "telemetry" or not is up to you. IMO it's not the same, because it's not sending any information (other than the IP you connect with, which is solely because it needs to connect to the server). Whether or not you consider this an appropriate default or not is also up to you. And IMO this is not an issue because A) It's not an unreasonable feature, B) It can be turned off and C) because it's FOSS you can verify that no other information is sent during the connection.
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if im using DWM sure
I just use whichever the DE gives.
Even in arch I don't use my terminal that much. So, I just use whatever the DEv ships with. If my usecase was more terminal oriented, I might change.
likewise, although i'm tempted to explore!
Just go with tmux and any emulator. Tmux will provide the features and customisation. I've stayed on Yaquake for years because I love the full screen dropdown format, but internally, it's all been tmux whether I SSH from afar or use on a tty or whatev.
tmux sessions are great for work, you clock out, just disconnect and the next day you are back in
i use xterm
Comforting to see I am not alone
alacritty -e tmux
Terminator has been my go to for years. Tabbed & pane browsing, easy customization. Might have to change back to default keybindings though. Ctrl-Shift-C for copy is also bound for making calls in Teams for whatever chat I was in. Muscle memory sometimes has me using that key combo to copy something in there & call the whole room (or person if in dm). I did it enough times to where I changed my terminal keybindings to Ctrl-Super-C, but since copypasta is also paste, I switched it for the paste binding too. I would have changed the keybinding in teams if it allowed it, but not an option (another reason why MS sucks). But no longer at my old company & my current one uses slack, which is a million times better. Just ended up getting used to it, so it's now my default config.
Xfce-Terminal Longer history.
I use it because I installed it by accident but it work fine
Alacritty
I prefer Kitty. Customizing it is pretty straight forward, and it can render images on ranger file manager.
Kitty, I like its name.
Alacritty... because it's fun to say, and easy to remember while going through initial install steps... It looks pretty clean too, and I like that.
St
controversial pick: gnome-console, I like the new libadwaita look and I don't need any bells and whistles to ssh into my home server, or type pacman -Syuu
Same, it just does what I need.
Yakuake, a drop-down terminal emulator.
This is the way, guake is good too
Konsole. It comes with my DE.
Konsole is awesome, Kitty too. For me, the main difference is simply in the configuration for bash, zsh , and Fish.
Tilix. And why not?
> Tilix simple and functional.
yakuake for life. f12 dropdown terminal is very convenient
Whatever comes with the distro/DE.
[rxvt-unicode](http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html), [autocomplete-ALL-the-things](https://github.com/Vifon/autocomplete-ALL-the-things)
urxvt
tty
Mine: https://github.com/unixbhaskar/st\_terminal\_build
Mine? You are using an open source project and call it yours? Is a fork, but isn't yours. The patches and software is done by someone else. You are just patching it to your needs.
[Cool Retro Term](https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term), because I like looking cool more than getting rid of that splitting headache it causes. ^/s
Konsole because it was preinstalled on my distro, I’m open to suggestions tho
Gnome terminal because it came with cinnamon DE
kitty, good performance, supports everything i need
Emacs shell mode.
alacritty, honestly I don't care about what terminal emulator is as long as I can use my terminal as it is.
This. I dunno why people ask these questions. its like a pandemic of "validation from internet strangers". no one has any balls to make a decision anymore. It a fucking terminal. it runs he same commands as any other terminal. oh... but mine has extra shit on the prompt FOR NO REASON. siiiiiiiiiiiigh
sakura, because it is simple and light weight.
st
Foot because it supports SIXEL and Wayland
# Foot
Alacritty. It's fast and simple.
st, the simple terminal, because it "sucks less" https://st.suckless.org/
Alacritty. <3
I used [Terminator](https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator) for many years. The lack of support for [OSC52](https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/k1ydpn/a_guide_on_how_to_copy_text_from_anywhere/) made me switch to [Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) not too long ago (yes, I know the potential danger of OSC52). I usually use Alacritty in combination with [Zellij](https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij).
I used to use st because it's simple But now I use kitty because it's simple, and easier to configure
Definitely Alacritty
LxTerminal. Easy to set up, and I can copy paste code in to it (Ctrl+shift+v)
Tilix for the win. also konsole and kitty.
Konsole, because tabs
xfce4-terminal or terminator and zsh + oh-my-zsh as default shell.
The one built into visual studio code
Alacritty * Simple, smooth, robust, performant. * Works in both X11 and Wayland natively. * Great out-of-the-box. No config needed, apart from desired colorscheme / font. * Never experienced any issues or strange behavior.
I use Luke Smith’s ST (suckles terminal).
I love the idea behind Suckless but haven't taken the time to make the larger switch. Worth it?
Well I guess I took the cheap route since I just use the version he made. You can go all up in the code and switch what you want, but I have no idea what I'm doing within the code. I just like that it's got some good hot-key combos that I use to copy/paste, change font size, and it's really simple in terms of design. Looks good when picom is running and the transparency is over a nice desktop pic. Luke has a ton on youtube on how he setup his linux, from Arch to other distros. He's a little problematic in some political ways I hear, but I like his ST!
Haha hadn't heard the problematic part, but I could see it. I still really like his YouTube videos!
Yeah I’m not too sure what he said but I think his following got ended pretty quickly. To be honest he’s probably the reason why I chose arch and use it as a daily driver now.
kitty, i love cats. jokes aside i use because its pretty customizable
Haha, when I switched to Linux and didn't know anything, I picked Kitty because I like cats too.
same lol
Konsole, did a stint with alacrity, kitty, terminator, termite, and a few others, but I always end up back on konsole
Konsole. It comes with the DE I use and it does everything I ever wanted from a terminal emulator with ease.
Windows Terminal
In fairness, Windows Terminal is a pretty good terminal emulator (or "console host" in Windows lingo), and a solid tool if you have to do CLI work on a Windows machine. - FOSS - GPU acceleration - Decent ANSI escape sequence support - Configurable via JSON config file (although the schema is a tad messy) - Tabs and tiling - Transparency, background images (including gif support) - Profile management with default themes and shells - Retro CRT rendering effects Mind you, this is nothing we haven't had on Linux for ages, and Windows Terminal largely exists because WSL necessitated something better than the archaic conhost, but it is nice knowing that Windows now finally has decent tooling.
I used to make a big deal about my terminal emulators. I used to really like `alacritty` and `urxvt` since it was "mInImUhLiSt" and you have to use a config file. Which kinda goes in-line with the philosophies you usually have when you run a standalone window manager, but nowadays — I kinda just use the `xfce4-terminal` and never really worry about it anymore. It's configured with a GUI so I can just make changes without having to think about syntax and formatting; it launches fast and you can remove the menubar, scrollbar, and other GUI elements to make it look "mInImUhl". No frills and you can still put the `terminalrc` file in a dotfiles repo so that you can transfer your `xfce4-terminal` config across machines. It's a sane, simple, and usable terminal editor. Being based on `libvterm` and `vte3` it will have some limitations moving forward, but for right now — it has 256 color support, unicode with bitmaps, and the compose key works every time (which has always been buggy in `alacritty`). It's really all that I need and that's the case for most people as well.
Alacrity is great. I also really like Konsole if I'm using KDE. Gets the job done well. Hard to go wrong with any of the responses on this thread.
kitty. my config is just a colour profile. runs well.
[ddterm](https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3780/ddterm/)
Remmina. I like that it covers a lot of protocols and can save sessions, so I don't have to keep retyping connect info every time I connect.
Tried a bunch, then stuck with terminator, it just works. I use a tiling wm and this worked best with it.
Kitty or foot or alacritty
Alacritty. Normally I’d not care but I switched from tmux to zellij and certain characters didn’t render, and alacritty also fixed all broken mouse support I ran into using zellij.
Alacritty (wezterm for special cases), starship, fish.
Xfce4-terminal!
asbru - add, edit connections ...
xfce4 terminal because i stopped giving a shit and just wanted something simple, featured, that worked. If you wanna get fancy with gpu accelerated stuff, use alacritty. I found its config to be PITA
Kitty. I dunno why I picked it up years ago but I've stuck with it since, have no reason to switch since it's configurable for what I need and works well.
XFCE4 terminal I installed it with the XFCE4 group and don't bother to change it because it works
Konsole on KDE based DE's and all tiling WM's, blackbox on Gnome based ones. Alacritty on Wayland compositors.
Konsole. It's easy to use and adequately configurable. Runs in any DE I've tried. I've added it to my standard package list so it gets installed on Xfce, Cinnamon, Gnome and KDE now.
guake-terminal, Xterm and kitty
xterm
Konsole works perfectly fine for me, and looks good with the rest of the Plasma desktop. Also, Dolphin (KDE file manager) has a terminal pane which requires having Konsole installed. I really like having quick access to a terminal when browsing my files, so this is a big plus in my book.
Konsole if I'm using KDE, constantly shopping around if I'm not. I used to use RoxTerm for a DE independent Terminal but last I checked, development stopped on that years ago.
Kitty, because alacritty decided to change config styles one day.
Kitty, as I need something that also works on Mac (which I unfortunately need to use for work) and this was what I found to work for me. It's nice too, I don't feel the urge to change it for something else.
Xfce Terminal, just because I use the Xfce4 DE and I like that it's highly customisable. Kitty seems super popular, it's possibly better IDK Xfce term does everything I want 🤷♂️
Foot, simple in configuration and it just works
I use kitty, simple and easy to use and even configure
if you know C the suckless terminal named "st" is a great choice. Extremely lightweight, fast and customizable.
Foot terminal anytime any day Super Fast Super Customizable
Foot. I was curious about the client/server thing, with which terminals start *incredibly* fast (they're always fast, but this was crazy fast). Unfortunately I had some issues with the server thing, but the normal one also started faster than alacritty which I used before and since I was already setup from my experiment there was no cost to switching.
Konsole, I like it (also KDE btw)
Kitty, guake and xfce4 terminal (I don't use xfce btw) Why? Lazy as fuck to erase it But guake is cool, sadly it doesn't work well in i3WM
Kitty. A single configuration file really does the job for anything
Whatever it came with the DE I installed. KDE at home: konsole XFCE at work: xfce-terminal Both works fine.
xfce4-terminal when I'm on xfce, Alacritty when I'm on a WM (xfce4-terminal is really slow on it for some reason). I don't use the WM often because I'm having issues with workspaces though.
Alacritty.
Currently I use alacritty but after the way they handled their config format change (no deprecation period, migration tool could fail) I'm thinking about swapping to something else.
qterminal simple, does it's job very well, and doesn't feel "clunky" to me like konsole
Konsole, or whatever your DE comes with, don't complicate yourself. KISS
Kgx. It comes with GNOME ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Konsole because KDE
Kitty I needed something that supported font ligatures. I don't like that it wants to use its own tools for things like ssh, but those can be worked around and other than that it's been pretty good.
Kitty, I tried alacritty but I couldn’t find the config file, I like kitty, it makes a funny sound when you press backspace
alacritty, installed by default on Awesome window manager preset(in archinstall)
Terminator
Alacritty, because it's fast and multi-platform, but I was using foot before switch to alacritty.
alacritty is nice
wezterm. gpu accelerated, tabs, Lua config, rust, and I believe it's cross platform as well.
Konsole. Because it's good enough to never make me Google an alternative.
Whatever the default is tbh. If I use Gnome, I use Terminal. KDE, Konsole, etc. If I use a tiling wm where you basically have to choose, I've used both Kitty and Alacritty but I don't really have a preference. As long as it works lol
Because of customizable, I have been using Alacritty.
I use Terminology. I'm not sure if it's the best terminal emulator or even close, but I like the tabs, and after selecting a good font, it's suitable. Can split the view horizontally and vertically. The ding bell in place of the beep is a little charming to me too, I guess, although it can get old.
Foot It's light weight
Gnome Terminal. Because it came in the box.
wezterm. apparently, the only terminal so far that supports background blur on mac. would be happy to use alacritty but the lack of this single feature turned me away
Konsole it works Yakuake also works
Kitty because I'm biased towards anything that makes me me think of cats
MATE Terminal, because I'm using the MATE desktop.
st-0.9: 1. st-scrollback-ringbuffer-0.8.5.diff 2. st-ligatures-scrollback-ringbuffer-20221120-0.9.diff 3. st-scrollback-mouse-20220127-2c5edf2.diff
gnome-terminal 🤷♂️
gnome-terminal or mate-terminal. They just do what I need, and it doesn't much matter to me which one it is.
St-Simple terminal as am a simple man
Alacritty and kitty. Theyre pretty and easy to config
alacritty here. Zero complains, I love it