Konsole, and yakuake as its Quake-like version. It comes with the Plasma desktop and it has all features I need plus a million more. And it's reasonably fast.
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?
#82I really grew fond of terminator.
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#83Konsole, and yakuake as its Quake-like version. It comes with the Plasma desktop and it has all features I need plus a million more. And it's reasonably fast.
Quake-mode (being able to hide/show with a global hotkey) is a required feature for me, and yakuake is one of the few that support it. I have no idea how anyone gets any work done without being able to quickly get to a terminal.
Funnily enough, on Windows their new Terminal supports it also if you dig in the settings a bit. That gets me through the work day, when I'm stuck on Windows.
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#84Terminator for a couple years now, because it has native support for split windows and is otherwise pretty good.
tmux is great, but it essentially breaks multi-line text selection (you end up selecting bits of text from an adjacent pane), an update in any pane will cancel text selection in any other pane, and mouse wheel scrolling doesn't work.
Terminator solves those issues and also has great unicode/IME support -- I can type Chinese directly into the terminal.
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#85Konsole, and yakuake as its Quake-like version. It comes with the Plasma desktop and it has all features I need plus a million more. And it's reasonably fast.
Yakuake is my daily tool for development. I have tried other Quake-like terminal emulator like Guake on Gnome, but Yakuake is the best for me.
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#86Now on i3:
I used to have urxvt in daemon mode, so opening a new terminal will be faster and just launch a client.
Then moved on to alacrity and finally it is kitty now.
I just want to open my terminal fast on i3 and be able to display graphics in them (therefore kitty)
Before i3 it was urxvt with tmux. I don’t have reasons to combine tmux with i3 (e.g. resuming a session). I3 is good enough
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#87I'm using tilix with tmux inside.
tilix can be configured to not have any window manager decoration and have quake mode (drop-down terminal) it's my replacement for guake that wasnt working nice with Wayland.
you can also put it in fullscreen and it'll stick to it in quake mode - the preferred way to use terminal for me
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#88Vanilla xterm. It uses a lot less resources than any other emulator. Thomas Dickey keeps it updated. It has an unusual, but usable scroll bar. You can configure cut-n-paste to help you with command line work. You can change what a "word" is for cutting/copying to include /, ., *, so working with Unix file names is easier.
I use plain xterm as well. With 6x13 aka 'fixed' bitmap font. Clean, simple, fast. I don't want background images, or transparency, or beautifully rendered fonts: I want to be able to clearly distinguish characters with minimum mental/visual effort, and pack as many of them into the available screen real-estate as I can see. I also turn off color highlighting, which I don't find useful (in a shell). My prompt is a si…
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#89I recently started using kgx, aka console and it's a fresh breath of air tbh. Esp the purple color scheme change on the terminal tab whenever you are in a ssh shell. The red warning prompt after pasting a command with sudo in it is also a nice touch.
Didn't know the terminal could be this interactive but am liking it.
I liked blackbox and it was initially going to be my gnome-terminal replacement. If only the project was a bit more complete (has a high CPU usage bug).
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#90I'm using tilix with tmux inside. tilix can be configured to not have any window manager decoration and have quake mode (drop-down terminal) it's my replacement for guake that wasnt working nice with Wayland. you can also put it in fullscreen and it'll stick to it in quake mode - the preferred way to use terminal for me
Also it has multiple sub windows, separate colors for bold/italics/etc, and all of VTE's gimmicks.