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?

  • Beto
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    371 year ago

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

    • @dino@discuss.tchncs.de
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      41 year 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.

    • @slowbyrne@beehaw.org
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      31 year 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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      21 year 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.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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        91 year 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

    • @Glome@feddit.nl
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      61 year ago

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

  • @banazir@lemmy.ml
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    211 year ago

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

    • Bipta
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      101 year 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.

  • @offby1@infosec.pub
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    1 year 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

  • 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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      21 year 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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    101 year 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
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      71 year 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.

      • @rotopenguin@infosec.pub
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        11 year 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.

    • @suny@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 year 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

    • Doink
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      11 year ago

      I have tried them all and this is my preferred option.

    • Tom
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      11 year ago

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

      • @MrHandyMan@lemmy.world
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        71 year 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
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        1 year 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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    91 year 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.