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Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, Konsole shipped by default with KDE Plasma, my current Desktop Environment. While I don't have a problem with it, I am interested in what other people are using, because there very likely is something better out there.

Specifically I've seen talk of Kitty and Alacritty, although I've also read that the dev of Kitty is allegedly kind of a jerk, so I am specifically interested in how Konsole matches up to Alacritty in your experience, but other suggestions and general terminal emulator discussion are also welcome!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kitty if you have a GPU and run programs that have a lot of output (build scripts and emerge). It uses the GPU for better performance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

kitty is great, for me it's similar to mpv: it does what it's supposed to do, no fluff. Just straight up performance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kitty is great until you SSH into a machine where it's not installed and try to use tmux or some other commandline apps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If it's a machine you have control over you can install the terminfo. Or setting the TERM variable to something like xterm-256color when connecting, that usually works, though I haven't tried with tmux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I usually just change TERM to xterm but I've heard that isn't a good way to do it

Also I'd rather not install stuff on every server I ssh into, I've installed it on test servers but wouldn't want to do it on prod

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I've never had issues with TERM=xterm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@flashgnash @Laser Connecting once with its ssh kitten resolves this by uploading appropriate terminfo files to the user's directory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realise it was only once you had to use it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@flashgnash Yep, just once to transfer the terminfo files and resolve this.

The SSH kitten is pretty useful though. If you use it in combination with kitty's --single-instance mode, you can start new kitty windows in the same SSH session without logging in again using its shared connection feature. Hugely convenient for how I work at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I have used it for that feature before, is there not a concern around defense in depth there though? If you've got a rogue program running could it not then hijack your ssh connection and infect that machine as well?