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I'm reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.

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[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Xterm is fine and everywhere.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 4 points 1 year ago

st. LukeSmithxyz's fork specifically.

[–] tootbrute@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I use black box flatpak.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Unironically: vscode terminal. It's the terminal that has less bugs when using shift+arrows to select text. I also use PowerShell because bash doesn't allow text selection with keyboard.

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[–] MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Basically what Silva said. When I'm going out of my way to install something, kitty. Else I roll with my DE's default, which in my case is usually gnome-terminal.

[–] viri@mas.to 3 points 1 year ago

i used to use urxvt but i had some issues with certain fonts and symbols loading, so i’ve since switched over to kitty, and it works fine for me

Terminology, with the Nyan Cat cursor! ^.^ :3

[–] LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago

Kitty, though I have been looking into st as I recently switched to dwm.

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Alacritty....rust it all

[–] Makussu@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago
[–] med@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

guake-terminal for a full-screen overlay terminal, I have a keybinding for transparency toggle so I can read guides through the overlay. I used to use tilda, but I switched because they weren’t supporting wayland.

For random/ad-hoc terminals I’ve historically used gnome-terminal and console, but recently I’ve been trying to eliminate window decoration entirely, and for that I’ve been liking black box (flatpak) for the floating decoration and other configuration bits.

They both support theming, and have dracula included by default, so it was easy enough to get a consistent look and feel.

I have tabs switched off for all of them. That’s what tmux is for.

edit: I’ll probably be checking out alacritty

[–] nessnesn64@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure if you knew, but Yakuake is very similar to tilde from what I've heard and has worked flawlessly for me on Wayland.
https://apps.kde.org/yakuake/

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[–] mariom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Tested dozen recently… And nothing was so much better to change the default one of KDE.

Used to urxvt (when I was using tilling vm on desktop pc). Used gnome-terminal when I was on cinnamon. I switched to KDE year or so ago and I'm using Konsole. It really does not matter that much, I only need tab support and 256 colors.

[–] yoz@linux.community 2 points 1 year ago

Terminology with screen and zsh.

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

I'm liking Warp, Tabby and Wezterm currently. Working on a config for my NixOS Hyprland and planning to see how foot does in comparison. Blackbox was pretty cool, but didn't use it much.

[–] reteo@mastodon.online 2 points 1 year ago

@kevincox For light tasks, I will make use of either vterm (if I'm in Emacs) or Alacritty (if I'm not).

If I need to get down to serious work (such as working on shells and text files both locally and remotely), I'll jump into eshell, using TRAMP when I need to go remote or sudo (or both) to edit files. I'll still use vterm if I need something that does screen redrawing, such as apt.

BlackBox for Linux, the UI is very clean and fit so well with the rest of Gnome apps

[–] ndonkersloot@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mostly use the default terminal emulator in the desktop environment I use, currently this is the gnome terminal.

What are the main reasons one want to use another terminal emulator? IMHO if I can reszie the window and the font and font size is good or configurable it is fine..

[–] folkrav@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Some offer specific features like tabs/splits, or Quake-like drop-down. Others are just focusing on being fast to launch, or have performant rendering. Having barely any features can be a desirable feature in itself, depending on who you ask lol

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