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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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Post by em-bee »

ralgozino wrote: post #109
em-bee wrote: post #102

i'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.

i tried that until i ran into a situation where i wanted one of the terminals to be next to a different app (so i could copy paste something) but i couldn't because the whole terminal app would obviously come to the top once i clicked into it. so i really prefer it to be separate windows

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

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Post by TeddyDD »

I use Alacritty because it's easy to configure and low maintenance. It's missing two features I'd love to have: ligatures and inline images. Ligatures are not important enoguh to switch and inline images won't work in tmux (tried it with wezterm and kitty) so I guess I'm stuck.

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

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Post by yonrg »

urxvtd + urxvtc

I just got used to it over the years. I also have a number of extensions which I would miss. Also it is just very responsive and low on resources; same league as xterm.

Also nowadays terminfo is mostly available on remote machines; I mainly work remote (I had an odroid as local system for quite a while).

I would say, there is no reason to have a terminal which does tiling, there is tmux which brings many more features. Also, what the heck with gpu enabled terminals?

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

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Post by lain-dono »

TeddyDD wrote: post #112

I use Alacritty because it's easy to configure and low maintenance. It's missing two features I'd love to have: ligatures and inline images. Ligatures are not important enoguh to switch and inline images won't work in tmux (tried it with wezterm and kitty) so I guess I'm stuck.

Alacritty has forks that supports ligatures. I use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/alacritty-ligatures-git You can also take a look at https://github.com/fee1-dead/alacritty/tree/ligatures_harfbu...

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

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Post by anotherhue »

wef wrote: post #33

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)…

Switched from alacrity to foot, very very pleased.

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

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Post by bXVsbGVy »

cbsks wrote: post #18

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 don't like how intrusive kitty is. The "shell integration", "remote control", ssh's "kittens" makes feel uneasy from a security standpoint. Maybe I'm just being paranoid :p

I thought about forking it into a "skinny kitty". But there are so many good ttys nowadays that I the effort is not worth it.

Another option would be to sandbox with linux namespace and capabilities. Not sure how feasible it is.

Kitty does has a lot of cool features though -- most I don't care about.

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