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

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      How often do you use images inside a terminal?

      Why having a Gpu-accelarated terminal? The computational power used by the graphical rendering of a terminal is minimal…

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      I’ve been using it for a while now, and it is fine. But it is very often that I open htop and kitty is one of the big cpu wasters. Maybe I’ve configured something wrong? But yeah, sure, works.

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    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

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    I use foot because it’s wayland native and the developer is a very nice person. Only thing missing from it for me is ligature support.

    A close second for me is WezTerm. It is very full featured, although I do not use a lot of its features. Developer is also extremely nice and helpful. It does have ligature support.

    I personally use tiling window managers, so I have no need for built-in tiling / tabbing features.

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    terminal? i think you’ll find its a terminal emulator, haha! /s

    i like kitty, its fast, simple, and supports ligatures.

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    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.

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        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
        
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    9term is what I use the most. Once you get used to the Plan9 way, you kind of like it. Sometimes I use Terminator as well. Konsole is like Terminator, both are good. They are both nicer than kitty for me. I tried kitty, went back to Terminator as it has menus to edit things, not just a text file.

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      How is plan9 compared to BSd & Linux? I only learned about it recently.

      What are the stand out pros & cons compared to Linux & BSD?