I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?
- St if I use X11 wm
- Konsole if I use KDE
- Foot if I use wayland wm
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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.
i quite like kitty, it’s got great text rendering support
Alacritty because it’s a minimal black rectangle, perfect for using with a tiling WM
You forgot to mention it’s wayland only. This was disappointing, it looks like it’s got some nice features…
- i’m on xfce so i’d need to change my de
- swhkd seems to be abandoned, and i couldn’t get it to run, so i’d need to change a lot about my wm setup on top of moving to sway
- nvidia issues
- permission issues (screen sharing for example)
- i’d also need to replace other tools, shortcuts, etc. so they use the wayland alternatives
Definitely not worth it just to get fractional scaling, and some theoretical security improvements on an OS that’s already quite secure. I tried using it for a few weeks on KDE, and I had to go back to x11 for something almost every day.
I prefer to use sxhkd for all shortcuts except for starting the terminal, and some wm specific commands. It allows me to keep a really short wm config, and have an easier time trying out new ones.
Urxvt, it supports unicode
I like terminology
It’s quick, gpu accelerated, can natively display images, and I’m not sure what else.
I don’t use the rest of enlightenment de but have stuck with terminology for years
What are the benefits if Gpu-accelarated terminals? From my understanding, that’s a really negligible difference.
I’ve used Alacritty for a long time, but I am looking to switch since they moved to TOML for their config file. The migration they advertised did not work, and looking for some sample files took me to a GitHub issue thread where the devs are just… dicks. It was rather easy to write a new config file from scratch, but their attitude is just ridiculous.
terminal? 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?
Once upon a time, I loved Xfce Terminal. It use light and complete for the use-case I had. Then I wanted something that looked nicer with vin. So I started looking for an alternative.
I used alacrity for a long time (4 years). Then, I found kitty provided some nice stuffs that simplified the workflow for remote servers thanks to special ssh commands and session tabs. I used kitty for about 2-3 years. One thing I missed was that it’s hard to integrate with other software because it implementa all it’s crazy “kitty protocols” and pretend to use them even if they’re compleynon-standard.
Recently, some misterious bug appeared and made it impossible to use. I switched to wezterm. I liked it could be configured in Lua, so it feels more coherent with my neovim configs. I just missed the mappings for switching terminal and send “!!<enter>” (i.e. execute last command). The special commands for copying custom configs on any ssh server was also missing, but it’s easy to make a script for that. I haven’t experienced too much with integrating it with other tools, but I suspect it’s not better than kitty in this.
I gave a chance to konsole last week. I just asked myself why we (neovim users) all look for Gpu-accelarated stuffs. The improvement in performance is negligible actually. However, konsole is super-well integrated in the OS, with a scratch terminal (yakuake), file managers (dolphin, konqueror), text editors (Kate), and even simple browsers (konqueror). It provides all the features of wezterm. I still lack a key map for sending “!!<enter>” to a specific terminal, though. But I think the integration it offers is superior to that niche feature (that can be paired within neovim, btw).
QTerminal, xterm, and of course, the good ol’ Linux console when I don’t wanna do anything graphical.
Kitty, cute name and logo
