Why do you people use terminal emulators?
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?
#102i'd like a terminal that let's me create a multi-window layout and actually recreate that layout with exact positions and sizes every time i start it.
recommendations?
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#103i'd like a terminal that let's me create a multi-window layout and actually recreate that layout with exact positions and sizes every time i start it. recommendations?
tmux?
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#104Konsole, 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.
The new windows terminal has quake mode? Now that's a game changer.
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#105Why do you people use terminal emulators?
the main reason for me is that the command shell retains a history of commands that i used which allows me to efficiently repeat those commands.
i can turn a series of commands into a script.
also a lot of commands and file operations are faster in a terminal.
there are also many commands that don't have a gui equivalent (and there are gui apps that don't have a commandline equivalent. the latter are the reason why we use terminal emulators as opposed to raw terminals(
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#106Yakuake. You're easily spoilt by a quake mode terminal and it's hard to go without it. Tab management and shortcuts are great. Full utf8 support.
It's essentially the same as Konsole, all the internals are shared libraries.
That all said, dunno how it would fly with a tiling window manager.
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#107Why do you people use terminal emulators?
the main reason for me is that the command shell retains a history of commands that i used which allows me to efficiently repeat those commands. i can turn a series of commands into a script. also a lot of commands and file operations are faster in a terminal. there are also many commands that don't have a gui equivalent (and there are gui apps that don't have a commandline equivalent. the latter are the reason why w…
Oh I get all of these, maybe I have some confusion about the difference between a terminal and a terminal emulator.
Take MacOS for example - there's the default Terminal app. It can do all the things you're describing out of the box and I agree that they're useful. (I would call this a terminal, not a terminal emulator Then there's the custom setups with kitty, tmux, other extensions etc.
My question was what do people get out of the latter that isn't in the former.
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#108i'd like a terminal that let's me create a multi-window layout and actually recreate that layout with exact positions and sizes every time i start it. recommendations?
tmux?
i should have mentioned that i am running different tmux sessions in each of those terminals already. i am not looking for tmux integration to the terminal, as some of my tmux sessions are remote, so there is no real benefit.
i could run a tmux session to lay out all my other tmux sessions, but then that would add another nesting layer, when my tmux sessions are already two levels deep. i also would like each terminal to be in a separate window.
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#109i'd like a terminal that let's me create a multi-window layout and actually recreate that layout with exact positions and sizes every time i start it. recommendations?
Kitty has layouts, but for terminals inside kitty's window, not DE level windows. There are some presets and you can define your own.
Re: Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
the main reason for me is that the command shell retains a history of commands that i used which allows me to efficiently repeat those commands. i can turn a series of commands into a script. also a lot of commands and file operations are faster in a terminal. there are also many commands that don't have a gui equivalent (and there are gui apps that don't have a commandline equivalent. the latter are the reason why w…
Oh I get all of these, maybe I have some confusion about the difference between a terminal and a terminal emulator. Take MacOS for example - there's the default Terminal app. It can do all the things you're describing out of the box and I agree that they're useful. (I would call this a terminal, not a terminal emulator Then there's the custom setups with kitty, tmux, other extensions etc. My question was what do peop…
oh, ok. every terminal on a gui is a terminal emulator, because a real terminal is something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT420 (i used one of those at home in the 90s, directly connected to a modem (so i had to hand dial modem commands))