I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?
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]
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…
what kind of benefit can i expect from a gpu accelerated terminal?
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.
Currently: foot
Especially for the server mode and the resulting fast startup of footclient.
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.
This one.
You’re so funny man
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
Kitty
i quite like kitty, it’s got great text rendering support
terminator was my go to for the longest time. Nowadays, I just use default GNOME Terminal. I just need things to work and not waste time tinkering.
terminal? i think you’ll find its a terminal emulator, haha! /s
i like kitty, its fast, simple, and supports ligatures.
iterm2 is near perfect on macOS, for Linux I usually use Alacritty or Foot
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.
I like Konsole.
It comes with KDE, supports tabs, themes, and loads very fast.
I don’t really need more from a terminal than that. When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij (previously I used tmux).
Yakuake is similar but drop down based (like quake). I love having a hot key to access my terminal (tabs, splits, and all). Especially when editing in vim and looking at docs in Firefox it’s such a buttery smooth workflow.
Konsole is pretty good
Whatever starts with
Ctrl+Alt+T
😁I find remapping it to Super+T natural
Konsole. It meets all my needs.