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

  • owatnext@lemmy.world
    281·
    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.

    • Afiefh@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’ve been using Konsole since switching to Linux with the KDE 4.0 release. Never felt the need to switch.

      Only thing I wish it supported is Tmux control mode.

  • kevincox@lemmy.mlOP
    10·
    2 years ago

    Personally I’ve been using gnome-terminal for quite a while and was fairly happy except that I needed to maintain gnome-terminal and libvte patches to get notification support. Having some sort of notification when a long-running command completes is very important to my productivity.

    I’ve been using Konsole but not fully happy.

    • No hyperlink support.
    • Selection is lost when my prompt updates (I have the time so that I know when I have started commands).

    I’ve been looking at other options but none-of them feel quite right.

    Alacritty:

    • No unlimited scrollback.

    Kitty:

    • Selection bug with updating prompt.
    • No unlimited scrollback.

    Wezterm:

    • No unlimited scrollback.

    Terminator:

    • Has this terminal group bar that I can’t get rid of.
    • No notification support.

    I realize that I am probably going to have to make a compromise (probably just go back to gnome-terminal with patches) but I figured it would be interesting to see what everyone else was using and make sure I didn’t miss something.

    To me the important features are:

    1. Unlimited scrollback.
    2. Notification support (ideally with the 777 Notify command, but if the terminal bell can make a notification that is fine).
    3. Clean UI. (I don’t use tabs so need to be able to hide the tab bar)
    4. Hyperlink support.
    • iwasgodonce@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      I’m pretty sure you can set alacritty and kitty to a ridiculously high number of scrollback lines, like at least several trillion. I think I just add 4 zeros on to the default and I’ve never had enough output for it to run out of scrollback. At some point you’re going to run out of ram or storage for storing scrollback so you can’t realistically have unlimited scrollback without doing something ridiculous.

  • fernandu00@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

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

  • hackris@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    Anything, but with tmux running inside. You can copy text even in a tty, split the terminal window, detach from and attach to tmux sessions, etc. I will never use a terminal for any moderately complex task without tmux again :)

  • Treeniks@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    I love wezterm, primarily because it is cross platform. The most important factor to me is being able to use the same one on Windows, Mac and Linux, because I use all three on a regular basis and don’t want to maintain multiple configs. However, wezterm currently has a bug that prevents it from opening on Wayland+Nvidia which forces me to use something else on Linux. None of the other ones get close imo.

  • Andy@programming.dev
    5·
    2 years ago

    Wezterm, which does everything, with a great developer behind it.

    Second choice is Konsole: super solid and great rendering.

    Aaand tmux with either of those.

  • Vorthas@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

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