I've just started using Black Box and I really like it.
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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.
I'm another Alacritty user. It's been my daily driver for years at this point and I have no complaints
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.
I always liked Terminator because of the easy splitscreening.
alacritty! only problem is no ligatures 😭
What are ligatures?
when individual characters join together. it is defined in the font. such as fi
or ff
in writing, or =>
forming an arrow, or >=
looking like the mathematical form. often using when coding, to make multi-character operators look nicer.
Some languages have characters which are really two letters mushed together, like:
ligatures are when you join two or more glyphs into a single one. For instance, instead of having the two characters = and > to form => if you had ligature support you would see ⇒. Some terminals have support to recognize sequences like => (and others obviously) and turn them into their corresponding ligatures (only for display though, the actual file contents remain umchanged)
A feature in my book! 😄
Depends what I'm doing, where and how. I do use tmux everywhere though but at home xfce-terminal, At work I tend to use terminator for the wonders of group control but if connecting from a windows pc i'll be on windows-terminal.
For shell I try to use zsh everywhere with p10k and omz.
Started using Kona Ike dice it’s what came by default with KDE. Tried kitty, alacritty, foot (I think that was the name, on Wayland) and iterm2 on Mac… and came back to konsole in KDE and terminal.app in Mac.
Truth is I just need a simple terminal. Kitty and Alacritty and other terminals continuously had me in that’s-not-the-right-way, configuring terminal colors through ssh, or tmux compatability (kitty even says that you shouldn’t use tmux, and screen splitting should be done at the terminal, not in the server).
At the end of the day, I use whatever is installed where I work. So far, all “default” terminals seem to be enough.
Konsole and gnome shell, super lame but I haven't had any trouble with them. Ftlog mintty on windows since it comes with git. I have a terrible time with the windows console
I've used xterm, rxvt, kitty, and now alacritty. I like alacritty because it's fast and simple. The only thing I don't like is that the default color scheme is off. If you run tmux in something like xterm, the bar is green. But in the default alacritty, it looks more yellow.
So I have this in my ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml:
# XTerm's default colors
colors:
# Default colors
primary:
background: '#000000'
foreground: '#d8d8d8'
# Normal colors
normal:
black: '#000000'
red: '#cd0000'
green: '#00cd00'
yellow: '#cdcd00'
blue: '#0000ee'
magenta: '#cd00cd'
cyan: '#00cdcd'
white: '#e5e5e5'
# Bright colors
bright:
black: '#7f7f7f'
red: '#ff0000'
green: '#00ff00'
yellow: '#ffff00'
blue: '#5c5cff'
magenta: '#ff00ff'
cyan: '#00ffff'
white: '#ffffff'
Used to use Terminator on Cinnamon, but now I use Konsole with bindings to split horizontally and vertically on Plasma.
Don't matter much as long as I got tmux
Unless there's a Linux tty that supports -CC, like iterm2 for macOS.
st all the way. Quick to launch and it works well
Whatever comes with the DE. I don't use it enough to have a favorite.
Guake and only really customized by setting infinite scroll and tweaked transparency. I jump in and out of the terminal all the time, so it's perfect for me. Plus F12 for terminal is old muscle memory from RISCOS.
I use both WezTerm and Kitty, they are both great with customization. You can see my config in dotfiles here https://github.com/haunt98/dotfiles
Kitty is great
Microsoft terminal. It has profiles for each connection and Ligature support for fonts. Font rendering is good. Theming is nice.
Edit: in the linux world i like konsole and xfce terminal.
💀 Microsoft™ Terminal