I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?
Kitty, hands down. GPU accelerated; native image protocol implemented by
ranger,neofetch, and more; incredibly customizable; multiplexing with multiple windows and tabs; ligature support; and much moreIf anybody has any questions about it, swing on over to Kitty Terminal Emulator [!kittyterimal@midwest.social]
How often do you use images inside a terminal?
Why having a Gpu-accelarated terminal? The computational power used by the graphical rendering of a terminal is minimal…
what kind of benefit can i expect from a gpu accelerated terminal?
I’ve been using it for a while now, and it is fine. But it is very often that I open htop and kitty is one of the big cpu wasters. Maybe I’ve configured something wrong? But yeah, sure, works.
GPU-fucking-accelerated terminal emulator. Damn, what an age to live in.
I like Konsole.
It comes with KDE, supports tabs, themes, and loads very fast.
I don’t really need more from a terminal than that. When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij (previously I used tmux).
When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij
Konsole does window splitting as well, doesn’t it?
Yes, it does.
Yakuake is similar but drop down based (like quake). I love having a hot key to access my terminal (tabs, splits, and all). Especially when editing in vim and looking at docs in Firefox it’s such a buttery smooth workflow.
Konsole is pretty good
I granted I haven’t tried any outside of what comes pre-installed on whatever DE I’m currently using, but yeah Konsole is the best
terminal? i think you’ll find its a terminal emulator, haha! /s
i like kitty, its fast, simple, and supports ligatures.
I’ve always had problems with ssh on kitty.
Gotta use the ssh kitten
I know. I still had problems even when I used that. I don’t see why are there problems at all? Why doesn’t alacritty have the same problem?
Konsole. It meets all my needs.
I just started using Konsole and so far it’s ticking all my boxes.
Wezterm is my favourite because it’s really configurable and supports ligatures. Konsole is also quite nice. Generally I’m in favour of using whichever one comes with your DE, or Wezterm if you use a WM.
Kitty is probably the most popular one, but I don’t like it cause
no ligature supportno accelerationit claims it has good font management, but fonts never worked properly in my experience.Alacritty and Foot are also popular for their performance. Alacritty does have some stability issues though.
Kitty does use GPU acceleration
Kitty Ligatures
It’s Alacritty that doesn’t support ligatures.Wezterm is my daily driver.
Konsole. Never had the need to explore alternatives.
after rebinding ctrl/shift+Insert, it really is all one needs.
People out here talking about graphics card accelerated terminals as if they’re able to read text that scrolls by on a non-accelerated terminal.
Konsole fulfills all my needs except synchronised splits. For that, I still use
tmux.Please stop adding licences.
I’d just block
I would appreciate it if you did.
I use foot because it’s wayland native and the developer is a very nice person. Only thing missing from it for me is ligature support.
A close second for me is WezTerm. It is very full featured, although I do not use a lot of its features. Developer is also extremely nice and helpful. It does have ligature support.
I personally use tiling window managers, so I have no need for built-in tiling / tabbing features.
I use blackbox, looks nice and can customize shortcuts. https://itsfoss.com/blackbox-terminal/
Blackbox is a WM, not a terminal! (get off my lawn!)
Damn this was my first thought too.
Someone pass me an AARP card and a Costco-sized tube of ointment…
I used to use Fluxbox back in the day, what’s the modern equivalent?
I think Openbox is the main survivor of the *box WMs – Openbox has become pretty much the default choice for small Linux distros, either with a few utilities like crunchbangplusplus or BunsenLabs or as the base of a lightweight DE like LXDE/LXQt
This. It feels like what the new gnome-console ought to have been.
I like kitty because:
- multiplexing
- more minimal than DE terminals
- fast
- can display images natively
How often do you use the image display within a terminal?
Kitty is not “minimal” at all, it’s full of superfluous features… I used it for many years and I loved it, but I wouldn’t say it’s “minimal”
I look at images a lot, don’t use a real image viewer much
Mmm yes so fast and feature rich
ST - Simple terminal https://st.suckless.org/
Because I agree with suckless philosophy.
Can’t argue with that, minimalism is based. (I say this as a non-minimalist)
I want to love it too. I use dwm, and tried ST for a year, but I gave up. Tmux doesn’t solve every issue, and specially when you have to manage another Tmux session on a server, it gets ridiculous.
I want to use as much suckless as possible, but ST just doesn’t work for me.
This one.
8/10 map, ngl. Would play over Summit or Apocalypse any day.
You’re so funny man
Ptyxis, formerly Prompt. I used urxvt for many years but eventually settled on GNOME Terminal after transitioning to the GNOME environment for most of my devices. Ptyxis is a slick and quick container-centric GTK 4 terminal that fits well with my Fedora Silverblue container-based workflow.
Whatever starts with
Ctrl+Alt+T😁I find remapping it to Super+T natural
super + enter
Windows+Enter
windows command prompt :-)
Super+X, Igang
Well I’ll throw in my endorsement for kitty. I like the ligature support, the fact that it can be configured to hide all UI, and it uses text files for configuration that I can put in my dot files repo.
There are some particular features that I use constantly:
I can yank a file path to the prompt from previous output by pressing ctrl+shift+p then f then a 1-character label. I can do the same with a git hash (or other hash) by pressing h instead of f.
I can scroll back and search previous output using only the keyboard with ctrl+shift+h which puts the terminal history in a pager.
I can get the output of only the previous command in a pager with ctrl+shift+g. Or jump to previous prompts with ctrl+shift+x and ctrl+shift+z.
I use kitty-scrollback.nvim which replaces that pager with neovim so I can use all of my editor features to search history, copy what I want, etc.
