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Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?

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Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?

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Alacritty, because the config is simple YAML and it can display with zero window embellishments or other UI. It's great for tiling window managers in particular. The font rendering is great and you can adjust padding, margin, etc. to tweak readability for your tastes. I'm a fan of plain background with good contrast color, larger than normal font, and a clean one character wide padding around the terminal. It feels a…

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Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?

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Alacritty, because the config is simple YAML and it can display with zero window embellishments or other UI. It's great for tiling window managers in particular. The font rendering is great and you can adjust padding, margin, etc. to tweak readability for your tastes. I'm a fan of plain background with good contrast color, larger than normal font, and a clean one character wide padding around the terminal. It feels a…

It's not supported ligurature. It's only problem i have.but I'm still using alacritty.

Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?

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Konsole is the default on KDE. Everything is near perfect except for an escape to classical Xterm three mouse button behavior for start to finish text sequence highlight. That right mouse button for context menu can be pushed off to Meta-Button-3. I never use the context menu but highlight text start to finish all the time. Very long web addresses with inserted prefix symbol sequence on line continuation Konsole could be smart enough to autoclean. A poleposition race among the terminal emulators to decide which is fastest and complete would be useful to check frequently.

Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?

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Kitty is an amazing terminal if you are willing to spend some time to learn and customize it. Take a look at the screencast on its website, it is super powerful and will make your coworkers and friends jealous. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

I think the major benefit of why I stuck with kitty is that it removes somewhat the need for tilix and tmux, and also integrates nicely if you have a tiling wm only on one system but not the other (networked multihead, anyone?).

The kitty.conf [1] is pretty powerful and allows a lot of customizations. It also has emoji support so you can make everything pretty in your PS1 :D

[1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/

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