I don't need tabs, or sessions, or startup scripts or even mouse support. I just need a terminal with good colour support and fast performance, without any of the bells and whistles that are utterly wasted on TMUX users.
What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
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Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#2Unsure what you consider as "good color support" but you might want to look at the original (xterm) or at rxvt.
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#4I enjoy Kitty’s good color support and performance, though it does have a lot of bells and whistles in which you’re not interested:
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#5Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
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#6I use Guake, mostly to bring up the "console" as a full screen overlay, like you would with Quake :)
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#7`rxvt`. Debian has a few different packages, for different build-time options.
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#8Alacritty is simple and fast[0] (it does have mouse support, but no tabs, sessions, or startup scripts as far as I know. Configuration is all via config file.).
Is that the kind of thing that you were looking for?
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#9extrateterm is pretty good (https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm)
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#10wezterm has lots of bells and whistles, but is fast and you can ignore the other features.