I just use konsole , which is the default terminal emulator for KDE. I don’t need anything fancy, just something basic to run commands, updates, a few scripts, etc.

cool-retro-term 😎 to live in retro cyberpunk dreamland

I ike konsole

I use wezterm, but there are many good ones

Personally I’ve been using gnome-terminal for quite a while and was fairly happy except that I needed to maintain gnome-terminal and libvte patches to get notification support. Having some sort of notification when a long-running command completes is very important to my productivity.

I’ve been using Konsole but not fully happy.

• No hyperlink support.
• Selection is lost when my prompt updates (I have the time so that I know when I have started commands).

I’ve been looking at other options but none-of them feel quite right.

Alacritty:

• No unlimited scrollback.

Kitty:

• Selection bug with updating prompt.
• No unlimited scrollback.

Wezterm:

• No unlimited scrollback.

Terminator:

• Has this terminal group bar that I can’t get rid of.
• No notification support.

I realize that I am probably going to have to make a compromise (probably just go back to gnome-terminal with patches) but I figured it would be interesting to see what everyone else was using and make sure I didn’t miss something.

To me the important features are:

1. Unlimited scrollback.
2. Notification support (ideally with the 777 Notify command, but if the terminal bell can make a notification that is fine).
3. Clean UI. (I don’t use tabs so need to be able to hide the tab bar)
4. Hyperlink support.

foot is great. Simple, fast, and customisable enough for my needs.

Gnome terminal. I don’t really care the terminal emulator. What’s in the terminal is what’s important. The terminal window just needs to be able to resize correctly though.

Alacritty is great, but I switched to wezterm due to ligatures support

Been using kitty for a while now, though honestly any terminal emulator works for me.

Anything, but with tmux running inside. You can copy text even in a tty, split the terminal window, detach from and attach to tmux sessions, etc. I will never use a terminal for any moderately complex task without tmux again :)

I primarily use Alacritty. I spend quite a lot of time running things that produce ludicrous amounts of output (eg. compiling Android from source). Out of 10 or so terminal emulators I’ve tested earlier this year, it was the only one that didn’t use 100% CPU displaying all that output, staying in the low single digits.

I’d prefer to use Wezterm because I like its lua configuration system and the builtin pane splitting, but with my workload, I still run into issues where its CPU usage shoots to 100% and becomes non-responsive for a while. (That said, it’s already a lot better than before. I try to report any issues I can reliably reproduce and Wez has been wonderful about fixing them.)

I’m using foot since I’ve installed sway and it’s just fine …not a super user to evaluate well

Yakuake. I’ve been using it for more than a decade and love it.

alacritty. the only downside for me is no ligatures

I rather enjoy Tilix. It can tile a single tab without tmux and it can also give special handling to links matched from regexps. I use it to go from Python stacktraces to correct line in Emacs with just a click. It can also do Quake-like terminal, which I use alot.

The project is looking for maintainers, though, so it’s possible at some point I need to start looking for alternatives…