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I'm looking for a new terminal. What's your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I use Hyper because it’s pretty simple to setup the way you want it and carry the config across OSs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

guake and conemu

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport's Terminal 2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Currently: foot

Especially for the server mode and the resulting fast startup of footclient.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm in the Alacrity+Zellij cargo cult

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Alacritty because I like how it handles bitmap fonts and I need bitmap fonts in my life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Guake. Has been for years. I am in and out the terminal all the time, so F12 works well for me. Plus I used to play Quake and used the in game terminal to do all kinds of things. Plus I'm an old RISC OS kid and F12 was the key to get the "star line".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

QTerminal, xterm, and of course, the good ol' Linux console when I don't wanna do anything graphical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

terminator was my go to for the longest time. Nowadays, I just use default GNOME Terminal. I just need things to work and not waste time tinkering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

i quite like kitty, it's got great text rendering support

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I do a ton of work on my homelab from my iPad with Blink Shell, and if I had to pick a favorite terminal, it would be Blink. I know this kinda falls outside the goal of your question, and with that in mind, after Blink, my favorite is Konsole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I want to say Alacritty+zellij but have not even tried that lol.

Konsole. It just works, has profiles etc. I highly recommend to change it to "launch every window in same process" to avoid multiple windows, create a new desktop entry replacing "konsole" with "konsole --new-tab".

And also learn Desktop actions, its very cool!

I have a profile with different colors that starts in my Distrobox.

my example desktop entry

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
TryExec=konsole
Exec=konsole --new-tab
Icon=utilities-terminal
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;
Actions=FedoraBox;root;ssh;
X-DocPath=konsole/index.html
X-DBUS-StartupType=Unique
X-KDE-AuthorizeAction=shell_access
X-KDE-Shortcuts=Ctrl+Alt+T
StartupWMClass=konsole
Keywords=terminal;console;script;run;execute;command;command-line;commandline;cli;bash;sh;shell;zsh;cmd;command prompt
Name=Konsole
GenericName=Terminal
Comment=Command line access

[Desktop Action FedoraBox]
Name=Distrobox
Icon=fedora-logo-icon
Exec=konsole --profile Fedora-Box

[Desktop Action root]
Name=root Terminal
Icon=folder-root-symbolic
Exec=konsole -e pkexec $SHELL #or define a shell

[Desktop Action ssh]
Name=ssh to X
Icon=folder-remote-symbolic
Exec=konsole -e ssh user@IP:PORT -i /path/to/key

Plasma will still display "open new window" which will instead open a new tab. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+t will also open a new tab, just as opening from Dolphin etc. Perfection!

Note that Konsole will pull in tons of dependencies, you may want to use XFCEs Terminal if you dont want that. Alacritty has no tabs which I find annoying (I hate windows).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Would be foot, but I'm using a font with ligatures so it's kitty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Terminology with the Nyan Cat cursor! :3 ^.^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Kitty, cute name and logo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
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