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?
Serial port hooked up to my oscilloscope
Been using foot for like 4 years.
honestly I just use what come with the DE but if I’m not using a DE then I’ll install kitty
I don’t really have a preference for a specific TE. As long as the default background is black. And not something close to black but not quite. And as long as Ctrl-Shift-V is paste.
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.
I’ve been using Alacritty for a while. It’s fast and does everything I need.
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.
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.
Alacritty + tmux OR urxvt
Konsole because it does everything I need it to and naturally integrates with Dolphin, which is something I like a lot. (F4 may be my most pressed Fn key thanks to this.)
As for customization, switched from bash to fish and use some fisher plugins for added convenience, along with the Tide prompt. I still use bash for some scripts, but that’s about the extent of it.
Also, I use a light theme, so feel free to crucify me.
I use Alacritty and have only themed its colors
Sakura. Simple and fast.
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xterm. It emulates a terminal. What else would I want a terminal emulator to do?
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…
I’ve tried tons over the years and I always keep going back to yakuake.
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
