I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?
This one.
8/10 map, ngl. Would play over Summit or Apocalypse any day.
You’re so funny man
Konsole. It meets all my needs.
I just started using Konsole and so far it’s ticking all my boxes.
Kitty, hands down. GPU accelerated; native image protocol implemented by
ranger,neofetch, and more; incredibly customizable; multiplexing with multiple windows and tabs; ligature support; and much moreIf anybody has any questions about it, swing on over to Kitty Terminal Emulator [!kittyterimal@midwest.social]
what kind of benefit can i expect from a gpu accelerated terminal?
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…
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.
GPU-fucking-accelerated terminal emulator. Damn, what an age to live in.
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
Konsole. Never had the need to explore alternatives.
Konsole and
zshterminal? i think you’ll find its a terminal emulator, haha! /s
i like kitty, its fast, simple, and supports ligatures.
I’ve always had problems with ssh on kitty.
Gotta use the ssh kitten
I know. I still had problems even when I used that. I don’t see why are there problems at all? Why doesn’t alacritty have the same problem?
Digital Equipment Corporations VT220
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.
alacritty
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.
How auto tmux?
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:
<CMD>is the path totmux, and you have configuredtmuxto run the shell of your choice. Search the web for how.<CMD>is the path to your shell, and it supports launching intmux. Search the web for how.
For me, it’s the second one. I use
fish, and I launch it withfish --command=tmux. So the above config looks like this:shell: program: /usr/bin/fish args: - --command=tmuxAwesome. Thanks. I’ll set that up later.
vt100
Kitty, it’s fast and for the most part works out of the box
stHere to say this
the best (imo)
