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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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[-] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like Terminator,
for it's ability to split one terminal window into as much as you want:
https://gnome-terminator.org/

In combination with Fish shell,
for it's auto completion + syntax highlighting:
https://fishshell.com/

And lastly, BobTheFish,
a nice git-aware powerline theme to go along with it:
https://github.com/oh-my-fish/theme-bobthefish

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Love me some fish! Though for more complex data processing, I'm working on learning nushell. Being able to work with more complex data structures is amazing.

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[-] astraeus@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] RollForInitiative@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Currently: foot

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

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Kitty, cute name and logo

[-] thedaemon@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

9term is what I use the most. Once you get used to the Plan9 way, you kind of like it. Sometimes I use Terminator as well. Konsole is like Terminator, both are good. They are both nicer than kitty for me. I tried kitty, went back to Terminator as it has menus to edit things, not just a text file.

[-] mac@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

How is plan9 compared to BSd & Linux? I only learned about it recently.

What are the stand out pros & cons compared to Linux & BSD?

[-] TetrisIQ@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Try out warp. They have built in Ai help, and a lot of features. The Linux version is available since 2 weeks. Cons: you need to create an account https://app.warp.dev/

[-] Gobidev@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Wezterm. It has all the features one could wish for

[-] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

kitty terminal + zsh shell, two fast and customizable tools

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport's Terminal 2.

[-] mac@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

iterm2 is near perfect on macOS, for Linux I usually use Alacritty or Foot

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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).

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years 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".

[-] ardi60@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

guake and conemu

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Call me lazy if you like, but I use GNOME terminal. Comes as standard with my distro. Does what I need. Supports fonts that aren't pixel fonts and has various look and feel tweaks accessible by GUI if I really want to get in there. I do that once after every fresh install and it's been a while since then.

Given that I loved a bit of Quake back in the day, you'd think I'd like drop down terminals like ddterm and Guake (which might not work on Wayland?), but weirdly no. I like it in a box I can move around.

I also keep the ancient xterm installed just in case and for when I get nostalgic for the old pixel fonts, but it's not exactly my go-to.

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