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

  • owatnext@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 years ago

    I just use konsole , which is the default terminal emulator for KDE. I don’t need anything fancy, just something basic to run commands, updates, a few scripts, etc.

    • Illiterate Domine@infosec.pubEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      konsole is low-key a great terminal. It’s really snappy, supports ligatures, and looks good. It’s one of my favorite KDE applications and the one I miss most when it’s not available.

    • macallik@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Same. I do have gnome on my laptop and the terminal was lacking relative to my KDE desktop, so I ended up making the switch there too

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    11·
    2 years ago

    I use Kitty, because it works well on both X and Wayland, and is GPU accelerated. For some reason, Alacritty doesn’t display the fonts properly (Displays them much smaller on Wayland. Only program I have such issues with)

    Also Kitty is more widely packaged (for example on Debian based distros)

  • fernandu00@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 years ago

    I’m using foot since I’ve installed sway and it’s just fine …not a super user to evaluate well

  • Vorthas@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Been using kitty for a while now, though honestly any terminal emulator works for me.

  • Cornelius@lemmy.ml
    6·
    2 years ago

    Yakuake, I can’t use anything other than a quake based terminal. Because of my work I need 24/7 quick access to a terminal, yakuake is just that

    • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      I never got into Quake, but I love the concept of having a terminal whenever you want with a simple press of an F-key.

  • flux@lemmy.ml
    6·
    2 years ago

    I rather enjoy Tilix. It can tile a single tab without tmux and it can also give special handling to links matched from regexps. I use it to go from Python stacktraces to correct line in Emacs with just a click. It can also do Quake-like terminal, which I use alot.

    The project is looking for maintainers, though, so it’s possible at some point I need to start looking for alternatives…

    • folkrav@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 years ago

      Dunno if you know about it, but Kitty scratches most of the same itches as Alacritty for me (fast launch and rendering, text config, no UI to deal with), and supports ligatures.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Gnome terminal. I don’t really care the terminal emulator. What’s in the terminal is what’s important. The terminal window just needs to be able to resize correctly though.

    • sqwerty@programming.dev
      4·
      2 years ago

      Same here - it comes with Gnome distros by default so nothing to install. I keep all the default settings except for disabling the annoying bell.

  • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
    5·
    2 years ago

    I really like wezterm, mainly because it’s configured in Lua and you can easily disable all keyboard shortcuts and allow only the ones you want. I do everything in Tmux, so my only shortcut s are for changing font size and full-screening window.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        There’s a good gnome extension too. I used Guake for years but switched to the extension one day and ended up liking it. It’s basically Guake but the menus and things use a modern Gnome style.