I have recently jumped head first into the Linux space. I’ve installed Arch on my daily driver and I’ve become overwhelmed/overjoyed with my options. I’d like to hear from the community about your Linux favorites.
What is your favorite Terminal Emulator and what have you done to customize it?
I’ve been using Alacritty for a while. It’s fast and does everything I need.
Also using this one for years now, don’t see a reason to change, although I see some “foot” in conjunction with wayland quite often.
Second, gotta love the new rust based tools and apps getting developed. Although I’ve seen some weird formatting issues on windows. Linux version is solid though.
foot
I only changed the colors and the font to Fira Code.
+1 , works great on my wayland setup
I’m happy with Konsole. Don’t think I’ve customized it any. TEs by and large just get the job done.
I looked quite a bit. Konsole is king for me.
My only complaint is the SSH profiles don’t always work as intended, but that’s just a theming thing.
kitty
+1
I like how the +1 of OG Reddit made it to Lemmy, but without the downvote hate of current Reddit. I’ve always seen those comments as more than just an upvote. An upvote can be a “+1”, but also a “thank you for your contribution”. A +1 is only a +1.
Also +1 for kitty
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Switched from alacritty and the likes to foot. Does what it’s supposed to well, and not a bunch of other shit
Yeah, foot is really fast even without server mode.
Care to elaborate what alacritty does differently than foot?
It’s written in C and a bit more minimalistically. Builds faster than alacrity, and is pretty even with alacritty in perf.
Alacritty is written in rust. 😎
Seconded, easy to use, easy to configure and does what it’s supposed to do.
Wezterm for me, I like the multiplexer that comes with it.
It works cross platform on every machine including windows with a single lua config and the documentation feels complete.
I’m using Tilix right now, mostly because it’s the best of the very few that support touch scrolling. Since I’m using my Surface Pro as a tablet a lot of the time that’s an important feature to me.
I like tilix for… the tiles (and quake mode).
I use Yakuake and Konsole since they came along with KDE Plasma. I’ve never really thought about using anything else, but maybe I should…
I’ve tried tons over the years and I always keep going back to yakuake.
Used to be termite for its minimalist feature. Now that it’s gone I move on to Wezterm. Occasionally I use alacrity to connect to armbian nodes because it can’t recognize wezterm. I hate kitty, not because of the terminal itself, but the dev. There is a snarky comment at github issue made by kitty’s dev when people request for a termite-like feature. It drove me to uninstall kitty straight away.
I don’t do much customizing at the terminal. Currently I use
alacritty,terminator, andst. Every few years I go through a searching-for-the-perfect-terminal and get frustrated at various shortcomings.The perfect terminal is the vt320. (I keep one plugged in to my router, since I can reach any machine from there.)
Gnome Terminal when I’m in GNOME, Konsole when I’m in KDE, and plain old xterm for i3 and any other WM. These just feel like they fit just right into their respective DE/WM.
I like terminator
I have tried them all and this is my preferred option.
I love it for its simplicity but unfortunately some fonts like Fira Code are weirdly buggy on font size 11. Still a very pretty and just werks™ terminal for basic usage so I kept using it with a changed font lol
Tried it and was not much pleased. What makes it better in your opinion?
Made for gnome = bloatware, change my mind.
I don’t agree at all that gnome is bloat ware. Most of the gnome applications are very minimal and light weight.
Also I guess it is great we have options.
I just can’t drop
st.Serial port hooked up to my oscilloscope
