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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 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] filgas08@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] annoyed_onion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 21 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 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

foot

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

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

+1 , works great on my wayland setup

[–] 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.

[–] offby1@infosec.pub 16 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

[–] tom42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, foot is really fast even without server mode.

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

st if Xorg, foot if Wayland.

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[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] smoof@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Urxvt seemed to be the fastest of them all. Definitely my favourite.

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[–] AngryDemonoid@lemmy.lylapol.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] burrito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I've tried tons over the years and I always keep going back to yakuake.

[–] Bakarel@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (4 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@beehaw.org 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.

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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.

[–] thepiguy@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ipha@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yakuake. <3 drop down terminals.

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[–] MrHandyMan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 7 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.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 7 points 1 year ago

I just can't drop st.

[–] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 7 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.

[–] cph@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

I like terminator

[–] nathanpc@lemmy.ml 7 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.

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

I use Alacritty and have only themed its colors

[–] manpacket@lemmyrs.org 6 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.

[–] 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.

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use WezTerm. It comes with great defaults imo.

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] alternateved@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

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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[–] YonatanAvhar@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 4 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.

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

Alacritty + tmux OR urxvt

[–] Secret300@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

honestly I just use what come with the DE but if I'm not using a DE then I'll install kitty

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

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

[–] NaoPb@beehaw.org 4 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.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

alacritty! only problem is no ligatures 😭

[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Kitty and wezterm do, they are pretty comparable to alacritty.

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[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] bluejay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 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

[–] donio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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