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

    • 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
    12·
    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
      6·
      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
          11·
          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.

      • 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?

  • okamiueru@lemmy.world
    9·
    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
        4·
        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: <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
  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    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.

    • traches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Heathrow is the fucking worst, I hate it so much. No windows, not enough seating because they need the space to sell overpriced cosmetics and luxury watches. Fucking keep your gate a secret until 20 minutes before departure to make sure you don’t sneak off and miss a chance to do a capitalism

  • beerclue@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 months ago

    I’ve used Alacritty for a long time, but I am looking to switch since they moved to TOML for their config file. The migration they advertised did not work, and looking for some sample files took me to a GitHub issue thread where the devs are just… dicks. It was rather easy to write a new config file from scratch, but their attitude is just ridiculous.

  • shiroininja@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 months ago

    I like just good old gnome terminal. Theming scripts work well with it, like the gruvbox one that has like a hundred color themes. it’s got all the right features. just works