I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?
Kitty, it’s fast and for the most part works out of the box
Konsole. Never had the need to explore alternatives.
after rebinding ctrl/shift+Insert, it really is all one needs.
People out here talking about graphics card accelerated terminals as if they’re able to read text that scrolls by on a non-accelerated terminal.
Konsole fulfills all my needs except synchronised splits. For that, I still use
tmux.
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
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.
Some people just like GUI more
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.I prefer text files. What I meant is that not everyone does. That people like Konsole more
What stability issues have you encountered?
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
Oh I think I know what you mean. Did you try setting your shell to something like
shinstead of bash or zsh and see if it was a shell startup issue?sh is just an alias for the default shell. And also idk how to set that
And your default shell is a POSIX compliant shell, usually dash or ash, so that’s what I mean by
sh. You can set it in~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.tomlwith:[shell] program = "/bin/sh"Just tried that. Didn’t help
This one.
My favourite is foot. Minimal, fast, easy to configure. Wayland-only though
Kitty, hands down. GPU accelerated; native image protocol implemented by
ranger,neofetch, and more; incredibly customizable; multiplexing with multiple windows and tabs; ligature support; and much moreIf anybody has any questions about it, swing on over to Kitty Terminal Emulator [!kittyterimal@midwest.social]
what kind of benefit can i expect from a gpu accelerated terminal?
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.
GPU-fucking-accelerated terminal emulator. Damn, what an age to live in.
ST - Simple terminal https://st.suckless.org/
Because I agree with suckless philosophy.
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.
Konsole is pretty good
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
Kitty, because I like cats and GPU go brrrr
I use blackbox, looks nice and can customize shortcuts. https://itsfoss.com/blackbox-terminal/
This. It feels like what the new gnome-console ought to have been.
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).
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.
Whatever starts with
Ctrl+Alt+T😁I find remapping it to Super+T natural
super + enter
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.
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.
How auto tmux?
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:
<CMD>is the path totmux, and you have configuredtmuxto run the shell of your choice. Search the web for how.<CMD>is the path to your shell, and it supports launching intmux. Search the web for how.
For me, it’s the second one. I use
fish, and I launch it withfish --command=tmux. So the above config looks like this:shell: program: /usr/bin/fish args: - --command=tmuxAwesome. Thanks. I’ll set that up later.
