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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] filgas08 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] annoyed_onion 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

foot

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

[–] linad 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

+1 , works great on my wayland setup

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wezterm for me, I like the multiplexer that comes with it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It works cross platform on every machine including windows with a single lua config and the documentation feels complete.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 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 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, foot is really fast even without server mode.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years 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.

[–] GustavoM 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

st if Xorg, foot if Wayland.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years 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...

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[–] Synthead 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Synthead 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah! That's why I like it. Lots of specific configuration, and it has a plugin system with some good plugins, too!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] ipha 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yakuake. <3 drop down terminals.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I'm using Tilix right now, mostly because it's the best of the very few that support touch scrolling. Since I'm using my Surface Pro as a tablet a lot of the time that's an important feature to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I like terminator

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I haven't needed anything different than Konsole, it works great for me.

[–] MrHandyMan 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I just can't drop st.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Gnome terminal. I'm just used to it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Serial port hooked up to my oscilloscope

[–] De_Narm 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I use Alacritty and have only themed its colors

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] Secret300 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Been using foot for like 4 years.

[–] spacedancer 5 points 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Alacritty + tmux OR urxvt

[–] tom42 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When I am on Hyprland I use foot. It is fast and well configurable.

My fallback is Gnome and inside I use the new kgx aka Console. I like that it shows in the window decoration's color when I'm working remotely or as super user.

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[–] shotgun_crab 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I use WezTerm. It comes with great defaults imo.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] donio 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] hipi 3 points 2 years ago
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