I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

  • bugsmith@programming.dev
    37·
    9 months ago

    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).

    • Turtle@aussie.zone
      5·
      9 months ago

      When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij

      Konsole does window splitting as well, doesn’t it?

    • genie@lemmy.world
      11·
      9 months ago

      Yakuake is similar but drop down based (like quake). I love having a hot key to access my terminal (tabs, splits, and all). Especially when editing in vim and looking at docs in Firefox it’s such a buttery smooth workflow.

    • Capricorn@lemmy.today
      11·
      9 months ago

      How often do you use images inside a terminal?

      Why having a Gpu-accelarated terminal? The computational power used by the graphical rendering of a terminal is minimal…

    • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 months ago

      I’ve been using it for a while now, and it is fine. But it is very often that I open htop and kitty is one of the big cpu wasters. Maybe I’ve configured something wrong? But yeah, sure, works.

    • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      I granted I haven’t tried any outside of what comes pre-installed on whatever DE I’m currently using, but yeah Konsole is the best

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    191·
    9 months ago

    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

    • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      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.

        • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          9 months ago

          Well yeah. But would you rather a GUI that stores the settings in easy to read and manipulate plain text files; Linux, or an archaic GUI that manipulates raw data and often breaks and is hard to understand; Windows registry.
          Even if you prefer GUIs, you’d probably still want the data stored in plain text files for the sake of simplicity and consistency.

    • F04118F@feddit.nl
      61·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 months ago

        It’s more about the fact that the Kitty’s developer rudely and aggressively refused to disable automatic updates after a ton of requests. Some people just don’t use certain software if they don’t like the developer

      • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 months ago

        I can’t remember all of them but now I have a weird issue that when I open Alacritty there’s some loading going on in the background for quite a few seconds which I can even see on the cursor (I think it’s “xdg” that’s loading) and even reinstalling the system didn’t help

        • Elsie@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Oh I think I know what you mean. Did you try setting your shell to something like sh instead of bash or zsh and see if it was a shell startup issue?

      • Sidewalker@lemm.ee
        3·
        9 months ago

        Damn this was my first thought too.

        Someone pass me an AARP card and a Costco-sized tube of ointment…

        • cerement@slrpnk.net
          2·
          9 months ago

          I think Openbox is the main survivor of the *box WMs – Openbox has become pretty much the default choice for small Linux distros, either with a few utilities like crunchbangplusplus or BunsenLabs or as the base of a lightweight DE like LXDE/LXQt

    • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      This. It feels like what the new gnome-console ought to have been.

  • Bankenstein@feddit.de
    14·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • lseif@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    9 months ago

    terminal? i think you’ll find its a terminal emulator, haha! /s

    i like kitty, its fast, simple, and supports ligatures.

    • msage@programming.dev
      1·
      9 months ago

      I want to love it too. I use dwm, and tried ST for a year, but I gave up. Tmux doesn’t solve every issue, and specially when you have to manage another Tmux session on a server, it gets ridiculous.

      I want to use as much suckless as possible, but ST just doesn’t work for me.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    ADM-3A for beauty and the vim keys.

    TRS-80 DT-1 for weirdness.

    IBM 5251 for beam spring keys.

    DEC VT320 because library nostalgia.

  • asynqq@lemmy.ml
    111·
    9 months ago

    Kitty, it’s fast and for the most part works out of the box

  • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
    111·
    9 months ago

    Well I’ll throw in my endorsement for kitty. I like the ligature support, the fact that it can be configured to hide all UI, and it uses text files for configuration that I can put in my dot files repo.

    There are some particular features that I use constantly:

    I can yank a file path to the prompt from previous output by pressing ctrl+shift+p then f then a 1-character label. I can do the same with a git hash (or other hash) by pressing h instead of f.

    I can scroll back and search previous output using only the keyboard with ctrl+shift+h which puts the terminal history in a pager.

    I can get the output of only the previous command in a pager with ctrl+shift+g. Or jump to previous prompts with ctrl+shift+x and ctrl+shift+z.

    I use kitty-scrollback.nvim which replaces that pager with neovim so I can use all of my editor features to search history, copy what I want, etc.

  • okamiueru@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 months ago

    Alacritty, launching tmux with fish shell. The latter shell could easily have been zsh. But a good and fast terminal w/tmux is such a nice thing to have.

    Any time to wish you had bothered with tmux, is when it’s already too late. If you go for this, you’ll never look back.

      • okamiueru@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 months ago

        Don’t know why you were downvoted. In any case, all terminals can be configured to start with a specific command and arguments. So, depending on your terminal, you might need to read the documentation, and/or search the web.

        In alacritty config, this is:

        shell:
  program: 
  args:
    -

        Then one of these:

        1. `` is the path to tmux, and you have configured tmux to run the shell of your choice. Search the web for how.
        2. `` is the path to your shell, and it supports launching in tmux. Search the web for how.

        For me, it’s the second one. I use fish, and I launch it with fish --command=tmux. So the above config looks like this:

        shell:
  program: /usr/bin/fish
  args:
    - --command=tmux
  • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    Ptyxis, formerly Prompt. I used urxvt for many years but eventually settled on GNOME Terminal after transitioning to the GNOME environment for most of my devices. Ptyxis is a slick and quick container-centric GTK 4 terminal that fits well with my Fedora Silverblue container-based workflow.