Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why? • Hacker News Board

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

#31

Post by camgunz » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 10:06 PM UTC

I used the terminal in gVim (:terminal). It's pretty close to xterm in terms of responsiveness, supports Unicode, and lets you avoid a multiplexer like GNU screen or tmux. Fallback is good old xterm (always have a fallback).

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

#32

Post by dzek69 » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 10:07 PM UTC

BTW, a little off topic, but...

I wish something like Windows Terminal or ConEmu was available for Linux. After Windows 10 supports will end I'm going to switch to Linux again and I wanna cry because Linux tools almost always are so feature-less, buggy, unfinished or ugly.

ShareX, Everything, terminals mentioned above. With 7+ taskbar tweaker even taskbar is much more powerful than any desktop environment I tested :(

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

#33

Post by wef » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

foot - https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot

  Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator.
  Features:
    * Fast
    * Lightweight, in dependencies, on-disk and in-memory
    * Wayland native
    * DE agnostic
    * Server/daemon mode
    * User configurable font fallback
    * On-the-fly font resize
    * On-the-fly DPI font size adjustment
    * Scrollback search
    * Keyboard driven URL detection
    * Color emoji support
    * IME (via text-input-v3)
    * Multi-seat
    * Synchronized Updates support
    * Sixel image support

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

#34

Post by haunter » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 10:09 PM UTC

dzek69 wrote: post #32

BTW, a little off topic, but... I wish something like Windows Terminal or ConEmu was available for Linux. After Windows 10 supports will end I'm going to switch to Linux again and I wanna cry because Linux tools almost always are so feature-less, buggy, unfinished or ugly. ShareX, Everything, terminals mentioned above. With 7+ taskbar tweaker even taskbar is much more powerful than any desktop environment I tested :(

Yeah ShareX has an absurd amount of features. Did you try Wine? Might work but not sure how friendly it is with X11/Wayland

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

#35

Post by jolmg » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 10:11 PM UTC

t6jvcereio wrote: post #16

Follow up, what's the Linux terminal with the lowest latency? What about the one with the highest thru put? Debian if that matters

By latency, I guess you mean its launching speed? I like urxvt for that. I started using it back when I was on a netbook. So much quicker to launch than gnome-terminal or konsole. I didn't even need its daemon functionality which should be even quicker to open up windows.

On throughput, I guess you mean its refresh rate? Among its many options, I remember there's one about skipping drawing content when it's coming in faster than urxvt is able to draw it, in order to not slow down the program writing to it. There may be more options that affect the refresh rate.

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

#36

Post by mortenlarsen » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 10:12 PM UTC

Anything not based on libvte, it is like a CVE magnet.

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

#37

Post by hsbauauvhabzb » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 10:12 PM UTC

I previously used kitty and had no issue, but moved to gnome terminal as kitty chewed through VRAM pretty fast on my 4k monitor setup. I use too many terminals, but gnome terminal appeared to unload vmem when moving away from a workspace, kitty did not.

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

#38

Post by justin_oaks » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 10:13 PM UTC

Forgive my ignorance, but what are big differences between terminal emulators that push people to one vs another?

Does making use of terminal multiplexer, like tmux or GNU screen, make some of those differences less important?

I mostly use whatever terminal emulator is on my system. Currently that's xfce4-terminal. But I use GNU screen so I only ever have one terminal window open and I almost exclusively use the keyboard shortcuts for GNU screen instead of terminal shortcuts.

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

#39

Post by synergy20 » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 10:13 PM UTC

gnome-terminal, universally installed, got the job done for me.

tried kitty xterm konsole lxterminal(nice fonts) over the years, the default one wins.

the gpu-based term(e.g. kitty) does have a nice feature, it can display images just like the old xterm, i hope gnome-terminal can do that one day.

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

#40

Post by tristor » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 10:14 PM UTC

Terminator, every single time. Was a godsend when I was in Ops.