Which terminal emulator do you use? - eviltoast

I’ve always just used konsole or gnome terminal. Never really looked into what else is available. Tried cool-retro-term the other day, but the novelty wore off pretty fast for me.

Curious to see if there’s a terminal someone swears by and refuses to use anything else.

    • mining (they/them)@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 months ago

      And why do you usw kitty? For me its the hyprland default terminal emulator and I never had problems with it so I stuck with it

      • shartworx@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I tested kitty and alacrity when I first found out about advanced term emulators. I liked kitty more, but I don’t remember why. I use the kittens all the time. It’s super convenient to play a video or display an image in the terminal. Kitty works on most distros. I wish it worked on windows, too, so I could use it at work.

  • Grimpen@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    #1, whatever is default. The main advantage of the terminal is that it’s just a terminal, fundamentally the same terminal since the dawn of computing.

    Having said that, I do sometimes install a non-default terminal. I haven’t seen any of them mentioned:

    cool-retro-term It looks like an OG CRT! What other terminal emulator has this killer feature?

    Byobu Technically a front end for tmux, but it gives some useful status info and multiple windows.

  • thejodie@programming.dev
    5·
    10 months ago

    Terminator.

    I use the broadcast, zoom, grouping, and the guake/yakuake style dropdown. Also it has layout switching like xmonad, ie you can ctrl + space to cycle pane layouts.

    • Nisaea@lemmy.sdf.org
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      10 months ago

      Gotta love terminator. I also always greatly appreciated how uncluttered and to the point its ui was, while being modern and configurable.

  • Juanjo Salvador@programming.dev
    4·
    10 months ago

    Formerly I used Terminator, because I liked to split the screen. Then I moved to Kitty because having a GPU-powered terminal sound amazing, and now I’m using gnome-terminal because I’m trying to get back to simply and default.

    • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      10 months ago

      I also love wezterm, but because I was able to easily disable all of it’s keyboard shortcuts and only re-enable those few I want (ctrl+shift+V, F11, ctrl+“=”, ctrl+ “-”). I use tmux for everything and I really love that I can “debloat” the shortcuts and don’t have to care about colliding keybinds when configuring things like neovim.

  • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Alacritty

    No particular reason why. It’s fast, it works, and I’ve already got it configured how I like it.

    I’ve used kitty and a couple others. It really doesn’t make much difference to me tbh.

  • krash@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I don’t care much for the terminal, but I noticed that I care a lot about my shell and the tools I use in it.

    And the prompt - can’t live without my ASCII bling-blink.

    • themoken@startrek.website
      2·
      10 months ago

      I used (u)xterm for like 20 years before discovering that Konsole is solid and beautiful. My whole tiling setup is backed up with KDE apps now.

      • macattack@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I used to install VS code for every new install and now I just stick to Kate. Although the storage impact is minimal, a lot of the dependencies for KDE apps are already present if you are running KDE as your desktop env.