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I have recently jumped head first into the Linux space. I've installed Arch on my daily driver and I've become overwhelmed/overjoyed with my options. I'd like to hear from the community about your Linux favorites.

What is your favorite Terminal Emulator and what have you done to customize it?

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[–] beto@lemmy.studio 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been using Alacritty for a while. It's fast and does everything I need.

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Also using this one for years now, don't see a reason to change, although I see some "foot" in conjunction with wayland quite often.

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm happy with Konsole. Don't think I've customized it any. TEs by and large just get the job done.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I looked quite a bit. Konsole is king for me.

My only complaint is the SSH profiles don't always work as intended, but that's just a theming thing.

[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wezterm for me, I like the multiplexer that comes with it.

[–] Glome@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

It works cross platform on every machine including windows with a single lua config and the documentation feels complete.

[–] frgl@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

foot

I only changed the colors and the font to Fira Code.

[–] offby1@infosec.pub 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Switched from alacritty after using it for a year or two to foot. Does what it's supposed to well, and not a bunch of other shit

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

Seconded, easy to use, easy to configure and does what it's supposed to do.

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[–] Bakarel@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use kitty and alacritty most important thing is editting the dot profiles in bash or zsh to get color codes for things and autocorrection.

[–] hallettj 7 points 1 year ago

I second kitty. I switched from urxvt to konsole to get support for ligatures. Then I switched to kitty because it also has ligatures, it's faster than konsole, and it's easier to configure with version-controlled files.

I don't do very much customization: font, line spacing, color scheme, and a couple of custom key bindings.

[–] Snowcap7567 2 points 1 year ago

I also use Kitty with the Fish shell and the Tide plugin. Looks quite fancy compared to the standard terminal.

[–] ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you get modern kitty on ubuntu based distros? I'm on pop os and there are no ppas or packages within the last few years

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I use Yakuake and Konsole since they came along with KDE Plasma. I've never really thought about using anything else, but maybe I should...

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago

Gnome terminal. I'm just used to it.

[–] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Been using foot for like 4 years.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I haven't needed anything different than Konsole, it works great for me.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't do much customizing at the terminal. Currently I use alacritty, terminator, and st. Every few years I go through a searching-for-the-perfect-terminal and get frustrated at various shortcomings.

[–] davefischer 3 points 1 year ago

The perfect terminal is the vt320. (I keep one plugged in to my router, since I can reach any machine from there.)

[–] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Used to be termite for its minimalist feature. Now that it's gone I move on to Wezterm. Occasionally I use alacrity to connect to armbian nodes because it can't recognize wezterm. I hate kitty, not because of the terminal itself, but the dev. There is a snarky comment at github issue made by kitty's dev when people request for a termite-like feature. It drove me to uninstall kitty straight away.

[–] thepiguy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I use kitty. I don't use its multiplexer features, but I do use its emoji picker a lot.

[–] nathanpc@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Gnome Terminal when I'm in GNOME, Konsole when I'm in KDE, and plain old xterm for i3 and any other WM. These just feel like they fit just right into their respective DE/WM.

[–] holland@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Tilix right now, mostly because it's the best of the very few that support touch scrolling. Since I'm using my Surface Pro as a tablet a lot of the time that's an important feature to me.

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Serial port hooked up to my oscilloscope

[–] pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org 5 points 1 year ago

Boring answer, but I just use gnome-terminal with a nord theme. I also remove the menu and scroll bars, and add some internal padding.

The only other thing I do, is I use tdrop so I can have a "scratchpad" or dropdown terminal that I can toggle with gnome-terminal.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 5 points 1 year ago

I just can't drop st.

[–] NaoPb 5 points 1 year ago

I don't really have a preference for a specific TE. As long as the default background is black. And not something close to black but not quite. And as long as Ctrl-Shift-V is paste.

[–] cph@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

I like terminator

[–] manpacket@lemmyrs.org 5 points 1 year ago

Urxvt, slight colorscheme changes to make background dark gray and foreground - light gray. alacritty might be "blazingly fast" but in my experience if terminal is slowing you down - you are doing something wrong. On the other hand urxvt uses 20 times less memory.

[–] Hexorg 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On regular desktop environments I really like Guake - it’s a drop down terminal emulator similar to how old games used to do it. It’s nice for quick use here and there. Though these days I just run tilling wm with xfce-terminal. It gets the job done and still looks good.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Omg. I thought I might read the whole comment list and not see anyone else using guake. I was starting to think something was wrong with it. I've used it for years, and for my very simple needs, it just works. And I like that it's always there when I need it, hides away when I don't.

[–] davefischer 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

xterm. It emulates a terminal. What else would I want a terminal emulator to do?

[–] lefarfadet@mstdn.io 1 points 1 year ago

@davefischer
I use kitty because it is able to display a stream of new lines properly, flawlessly, without blinking, which xterm can't do
@stark

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Alacritty + tmux OR urxvt

[–] alternateved@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gnome Console since it is consistent with the rest of Gnome and works well enough.

[–] bluejay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I'm another Alacritty user. It's been my daily driver for years at this point and I have no complaints

I've used xterm, rxvt, kitty, and now alacritty. I like alacritty because it's fast and simple. The only thing I don't like is that the default color scheme is off. If you run tmux in something like xterm, the bar is green. But in the default alacritty, it looks more yellow.

So I have this in my ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml:

# XTerm's default colors
colors:
   # Default colors
   primary:
     background: '#000000'
     foreground: '#d8d8d8'
   # Normal colors
   normal:
     black:   '#000000'
     red:     '#cd0000'
     green:   '#00cd00'
     yellow:  '#cdcd00'
     blue:    '#0000ee'
     magenta: '#cd00cd'
     cyan:    '#00cdcd'
     white:   '#e5e5e5'

   # Bright colors
   bright:
     black:   '#7f7f7f'
     red:     '#ff0000'
     green:   '#00ff00'
     yellow:  '#ffff00'
     blue:    '#5c5cff'
     magenta: '#ff00ff'
     cyan:    '#00ffff'
     white:   '#ffffff'
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Mlterm because it's the only low latency terminal with modern features.

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

My favorite is Tilda, (drop down terminal) and my second favorite would be good ol' Konsole.

[–] YonatanAvhar@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KDE's Konsole, I love using it since it also integrates into Dolphin

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[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I use Alacritty and have only themed its colors

Used to use Terminator on Cinnamon, but now I use Konsole with bindings to split horizontally and vertically on Plasma.

[–] magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 2 points 1 year ago

st from suckless all the way. Used it a couple of years now in conjunction with i3. I'm spawning a lot of terminals, doing a few commands and closing them often, so starting quick is a must.

Wrote a small patch that allows me to copy current directory from a terminal instance to primary selection with a keybinding. That allows me to quickly navigate to whatever directory that would be in another terminal or application.

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Microsoft terminal. It has profiles for each connection and Ligature support for fonts. Font rendering is good. Theming is nice.

Edit: in the linux world i like konsole and xfce terminal.

[–] brejela@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

st all the way. Quick to launch and it works well

[–] youngyoshieboy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I use both WezTerm and Kitty, they are both great with customization. You can see my config in dotfiles here https://github.com/haunt98/dotfiles

[–] 1984 2 points 1 year ago

Yakuake as it's just one button, F12, away. I do what I need and puff it's gone.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Guake and only really customized by setting infinite scroll and tweaked transparency. I jump in and out of the terminal all the time, so it's perfect for me. Plus F12 for terminal is old muscle memory from RISCOS.

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