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

  • @okamiueru@lemmy.world
    10•1 year 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
        4•1 year 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: <CMD>
  args:
    - <ARGS>

        Then one of these:

        1. <CMD> is the path to tmux, and you have configured tmux to run the shell of your choice. Search the web for how.
        2. <CMD> 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