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?

    • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      11 months 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.

    • Bobby Byrne@beehaw.org
      English
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      11 months ago

      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.

    • hackeryarn@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      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.

  • banazir@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I’m happy with Konsole. Don’t think I’ve customized it any. TEs by and large just get the job done.

    • Bipta@kbin.social
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      11 months 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.

    • Glome@feddit.nl
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      11 months ago

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

  • offby1@infosec.pub
    17·
    11 months ago

    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

  • AngryDemonoid@lemmy.lylapol.com
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    11 months ago

    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…

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months 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.

    • davefischer@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      The perfect terminal is the vt320. (I keep one plugged in to my router, since I can reach any machine from there.)

  • Bakarel@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • hallettj@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      I second kitty. I switched from urxvt to konsole to get support for ligatures. Then I switched to kitty because it also has ligatures, it’s faster than konsole, and it’s easier to configure with version-controlled files.

      I don’t do very much customization: font, line spacing, color scheme, and a couple of custom key bindings.

    • ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net
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      11 months ago

      How do you get modern kitty on ubuntu based distros? I’m on pop os and there are no ppas or packages within the last few years

      • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Lunar Lobster has 0.26.5, which is from November. Coulda gone with something a little fresher, but it isn’t that severely out of date.

    • Snowcap7567@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      I also use Kitty with the Fish shell and the Tide plugin. Looks quite fancy compared to the standard terminal.

  • thepiguy@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

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

    • suny@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      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

    • Tom@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Tried it and was not much pleased. What makes it better in your opinion?

      • MrHandyMan@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        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.

      • Doink@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        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.

  • holland@lemmy.ml
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    11 months 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.