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Personally I am using console2, which is quite good and fits my needs (support multiple tabbed consoles, named title etc). You also can try Cygwin's terminal, and run it inside console2.
mintty, by far. I'm surprised no one has recommended it yet. The new Windows Terminal is just not ready. It's death by a thousand paper cuts. I keep an eye on it, but here's an example from right now when I start it with msys bash which otherwise works just fine: bash: cut: command not found dircolors: no SHELL environment variable, and no shell type option given # echo $SHELL /usr/bin/bash # which cut /usr/bin/cut
(I'm not sure what the 'dircolors' SHELL env var is--I haven't used 'dircolors', but 'man' tells me it's a program that sets the LS_COLORS env var, not an env var itself. And it says it has a shell type option, although that seems to be limited to C-shell and Bourne shell. Or maybe you mean dircolors doesn't pay attention to the SHELL env var? Again, that sounds more like a problem with the msys bash implementation, rather than the Windows Terminal.)
You could try out DomTerm ( https://domterm.org ). It has many unique features ( http://domterm.org/Features.html ), and it runs fine on WSL. DomTerm doesn't have Quake-like drop-down, but I'm open to adding it. If someone can tell me how to bind a key (at the global/system level) to a command like 'domterm --toggle-hide', it should be easy to have that command call the Electron show/hide methods of a BrowserWindow,…