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?
Serial port hooked up to my oscilloscope
Been using foot for like 4 years.
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.
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
kitty
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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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I like urxvt with i3
Urxvt seemed to be the fastest of them all. Definitely my favourite.
Yeah! That’s why I like it. Lots of specific configuration, and it has a plugin system with some good plugins, too!
Any plugins you may recommend?
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.
I use Alacritty and have only themed its colors
Konsole because it does everything I need it to and naturally integrates with Dolphin, which is something I like a lot. (F4 may be my most pressed Fn key thanks to this.)
As for customization, switched from bash to fish and use some fisher plugins for added convenience, along with the Tide prompt. I still use bash for some scripts, but that’s about the extent of it.
Also, I use a light theme, so feel free to crucify me.
I’ve been using Alacritty for a while. It’s fast and does everything I need.
Alacritty is also the terminal that feels small and focused enough for me. Too many other terminals try to do everything like session management, etc.
Second, gotta love the new rust based tools and apps getting developed. Although I’ve seen some weird formatting issues on windows. Linux version is solid though.
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.
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 use WezTerm. It comes with great defaults imo.
I was using kitty and then switched to WezTerm because of the multiplexing. It’s nice.
I love it for its simplicity but unfortunately some fonts like Fira Code are weirdly buggy on font size 11. Still a very pretty and just werks™ terminal for basic usage so I kept using it with a changed font lol
Tried it and was not much pleased. What makes it better in your opinion?
I have tried them all and this is my preferred option.
Made for gnome = bloatware, change my mind.
If you don’t like it, don’t use it. I like it so I use it. I don’t have to validate my choices with things that don’t matter.
I don’t agree at all that gnome applications are bloat ware. Most of the gnome applications are very minimal and light weight.
Also I guess it is great we have options.
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