I’m reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.
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.I’ve been using Konsole since switching to Linux with the KDE 4.0 release. Never felt the need to switch.
Only thing I wish it supported is Tmux control mode.
cool-retro-term 😎 to live in retro cyberpunk dreamland
Wow that is actually way cooler than the original terminals. Thx!
I ike konsole
Konsole with a side of Yakuake is perfect for me.
I use wezterm, but there are many good ones
Love it, works nice in my Mac and Linux PCs.
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:
- Unlimited scrollback.
- Notification support (ideally with the 777 Notify command, but if the terminal bell can make a notification that is fine).
- Clean UI. (I don’t use tabs so need to be able to hide the tab bar)
- Hyperlink support.
I’m pretty sure you can set alacritty and kitty to a ridiculously high number of scrollback lines, like at least several trillion. I think I just add 4 zeros on to the default and I’ve never had enough output for it to run out of scrollback. At some point you’re going to run out of ram or storage for storing scrollback so you can’t realistically have unlimited scrollback without doing something ridiculous.
foot is great. Simple, fast, and customisable enough for my needs.
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’m using foot since I’ve installed sway and it’s just fine …not a super user to evaluate well
Alacritty is great, but I switched to wezterm due to ligatures support
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.
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Been using kitty for a while now, though honestly any terminal emulator works for me.
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…
Zutty, the Zero-cost Unicode Teletype which the developer describes as “A high-end terminal for low-end systems”.
alacritty. the only downside for me is no ligatures
Dunno if you know about it, but Kitty scratches most of the same itches as Alacritty for me (fast launch and rendering, text config, no UI to deal with), and supports ligatures.
