I've been using Alacritty for a while. It's fast and does everything I need.
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I like how the +1 of OG Reddit made it to Lemmy, but without the downvote hate of current Reddit. I've always seen those comments as more than just an upvote. An upvote can be a "+1", but also a "thank you for your contribution". A +1 is only a +1.
Also +1 for kitty
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Wezterm for me, I like the multiplexer that comes with it.
It works cross platform on every machine including windows with a single lua config and the documentation feels complete.
foot
I only changed the colors and the font to Fira Code.
+1 , works great on my wayland setup
I'm happy with Konsole. Don't think I've customized it any. TEs by and large just get the job done.
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.
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
Yeah, foot is really fast even without server mode.
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I like urxvt with i3
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...
I've tried tons over the years and I always keep going back to yakuake.
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.
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.
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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.
I use kitty. I don't use its multiplexer features, but I do use its emoji picker a lot.
Gnome terminal. I'm just used to it.
Been using foot for like 4 years.
I just can't drop st.
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.
I like terminator
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.
I use Alacritty and have only themed its colors
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.
I'm using Alacritty. It's fast, it includes a Vi mode within its viewport/scrollback and it is highly customizable if you want to. But I haven't customized it much to be honest, since I mostly go straight into tmux, vim or ranger.
Gnome Console since it is consistent with the rest of Gnome and works well enough.
Tilda, because I like how I can drop it down my screen anytime by pressing one key if I need to use it.
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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.
Alacritty + tmux OR urxvt
honestly I just use what come with the DE but if I'm not using a DE then I'll install kitty
Mlterm because it's the only low latency terminal with modern features.
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.
alacritty! only problem is no ligatures 😭
Kitty and wezterm do, they are pretty comparable to alacritty.
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Do any terminal emulators on Linux implement the tmux control protocol, i.e. tmux -cc?
I use this with iTerm2 on macOS to turn tmux windows into native tabs, and to integrate with the native scroll back buffer.
I really miss this feature on Linux.
I'm another Alacritty user. It's been my daily driver for years at this point and I have no complaints
I am on st as well. The externalpipe patch is the killer feature for me, it's so much more flexible than the usual URL open that's built into many other terminal emulators. xterm and urxvt had something similar too. Alacritty has an open issue for the feature.
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