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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 more
If 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?
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).
When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij
Konsole does window splitting as well, doesn't it?
terminal? i think you'll find its a terminal emulator, haha! /s
i like kitty, its fast, simple, and supports ligatures.
My favorite is Alacritty but I don't use it because of stability issues lol. Kitty is popular now. It seems to have some questionable update policy but it's fixable. It supports plugins (kittens), tabs and most of the common features. Though the configuration is done in a text file. It doesn't have a GUI for it. For that I'd recommend Konsole
I agree that Konsole are Kitty are both lovely terminals that are very configurable. Kitty for ~~text file people~~ vim enthusiasts and Konsole for GUI lovers.
By "questionable update policy", do you mean that it is updated by the package manager when installed from official repositories but it has an auto-updater functionality for users installing it manually?
IIRC someone who compiled from source but didn't set the flag/config to disable the auto-updater was surprised about that.
I don't see the big deal of it to be honest. The vast majority of users will be installing through the package manager. If you compile from source, you can decide yourself whether you want it to auto-update. The whole point of compiling from source is the extra control, not the defaults, I'd guess. Unless you don't know what you are doing and the package was not available for your distro and in that case, enabling auto-update by default even serves that user group.
Wezterm is my favourite because it's really configurable and supports ligatures. Konsole is also quite nice. Generally I'm in favour of using whichever one comes with your DE, or Wezterm if you use a WM.
Kitty is probably the most popular one, but I don't like it cause ~~no ligature support~~ ~~no acceleration~~ it claims it has good font management, but fonts never worked properly in my experience.
Alacritty and Foot are also popular for their performance. Alacritty does have some stability issues though.
Kitty does use GPU acceleration
Wezterm is my daily driver.
Konsole. It meets all my needs.
I like kitty because:
Konsole. Never had the need to explore alternatives.
People out here talking about graphics card accelerated terminals as if they're able to read text that scrolls by on a non-accelerated terminal.
Konsole fulfills all my needs except synchronised splits. For that, I still use tmux.
I use blackbox, looks nice and can customize shortcuts. https://itsfoss.com/blackbox-terminal/
This. It feels like what the new gnome-console ought to have been.
Blackbox is a WM, not a terminal! (get off my lawn!)
Damn this was my first thought too.
Someone pass me an AARP card and a Costco-sized tube of ointment…
Well I'll throw in my endorsement for kitty. I like the ligature support, the fact that it can be configured to hide all UI, and it uses text files for configuration that I can put in my dot files repo.
There are some particular features that I use constantly:
I can yank a file path to the prompt from previous output by pressing ctrl+shift+p then f then a 1-character label. I can do the same with a git hash (or other hash) by pressing h instead of f.
I can scroll back and search previous output using only the keyboard with ctrl+shift+h which puts the terminal history in a pager.
I can get the output of only the previous command in a pager with ctrl+shift+g. Or jump to previous prompts with ctrl+shift+x and ctrl+shift+z.
I use kitty-scrollback.nvim which replaces that pager with neovim so I can use all of my editor features to search history, copy what I want, etc.
Ptyxis, formerly Prompt. I used urxvt for many years but eventually settled on GNOME Terminal after transitioning to the GNOME environment for most of my devices. Ptyxis is a slick and quick container-centric GTK 4 terminal that fits well with my Fedora Silverblue container-based workflow.
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.
Whatever starts with Ctrl+Alt+T 😁
I find remapping it to Super+T natural
Kitty, it's fast and for the most part works out of the box
Alacritty because it's a minimal black rectangle, perfect for using with a tiling WM
XFCE-Terminal. Small, lightweight, Wayland if you use it and plenty of config without cryptic dotfiles.
Plus popularity due to it being the XFCE default and contributed towards by the XFCE team.
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Kitty, because I like cats and GPU go brrrr
Urxvt, it supports unicode
konsole with tmux
Xterm
I use ddterm. It's a gnome extension that adds a Drop Down Terminal. I quite like how easy it is to bring it up and hide it again, at the press of a button. You can even hide it without closing it, so it's great for testing web apps.
Tilda, because I can bring it down my screen with one key any time.
hey, that's what I like yakuake for!
Wezterm, because it lets me easily disable all keymaps and then reenable only those few that I use. I use tmux to handle most things, and with wezterm I don't have to worry about tmux clashing with wezterm's krymaps.
I like Tilix, since it lets me split the terminal with a keyboard shortcut and easily switch between terminals too. I tried using GNOME terminal + tmux, but having to hit Ctrl+b before the command I wanted got tedious fast.
I don't know if it's Plasma dependent, but I love using yakuake on my laptop for the convenience of pressing F4 and it just popping up. I know there are shortcuts for making a terminal pop up, but I really like how yakuake closes itself when you click out of it.
Couldn't tell you about the technical side of yakuake, but I will say I just love the convenience more than anything else.
What's my favourite terminal? The one that fits my desktop environment. When I used XFCE I used its terminal, when I used i3 I used kitty, and now I use blackbox on Gnome.
Wezterm. Featureful like kitty but supports bitmap fonts.
Foot is the fastest and I use it as default. Second is Kitty because it uses GPU acceleration.
I've tried a lot of them over the whole history of Linux, but what I use now is kitty.
