I’m reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.
alacritty
I use Kitty, because it works well on both X and Wayland, and is GPU accelerated. For some reason, Alacritty doesn’t display the fonts properly (Displays them much smaller on Wayland. Only program I have such issues with)
Also Kitty is more widely packaged (for example on Debian based distros)
I use foot together with foot-server. The client opens in less than a millisecond, and I usually have tens of terminal windows open at the same time. Tabbing comes from the window manager.
And it’s pretty customizable, without UI stuff. Just pure config files, my favorite.
Yakuake, I can’t use anything other than a quake based terminal. Because of my work I need 24/7 quick access to a terminal, yakuake is just that
I never got into Quake, but I love the concept of having a terminal whenever you want with a simple press of an F-key.
foot is great. Simple, fast, and customisable enough for my needs.
Alacritty is great, but I switched to wezterm due to ligatures support
Gnome terminal. I don’t really care the terminal emulator. What’s in the terminal is what’s important. The terminal window just needs to be able to resize correctly though.
Same here - it comes with Gnome distros by default so nothing to install. I keep all the default settings except for disabling the annoying bell.
I primarily use Alacritty. I spend quite a lot of time running things that produce ludicrous amounts of output (eg. compiling Android from source). Out of 10 or so terminal emulators I’ve tested earlier this year, it was the only one that didn’t use 100% CPU displaying all that output, staying in the low single digits.
I’d prefer to use Wezterm because I like its lua configuration system and the builtin pane splitting, but with my workload, I still run into issues where its CPU usage shoots to 100% and becomes non-responsive for a while. (That said, it’s already a lot better than before. I try to report any issues I can reliably reproduce and Wez has been wonderful about fixing them.)
It really does not make sense a terminal consuming 100% CPU, so Alacrittycis my choice as well
Alacritty + tmux!
I’m using foot since I’ve installed sway and it’s just fine …not a super user to evaluate well
foot
Foot works fine here also.
Super nice, with some “hidden” gems like Ctrl+Shift+o for opening links.
Super nice, with some “hidden” gems like Ctrl+Shift+o for opening links.
I ike konsole
Konsole with a side of Yakuake is perfect for me.
I use wezterm, but there are many good ones
Love it, works nice in my Mac and Linux PCs.
kitty
I almost exclusively use Yakuake nowadays. I like the drop down terminal.
Guake is awesome too
There’s a good gnome extension too. I used Guake for years but switched to the extension one day and ended up liking it. It’s basically Guake but the menus and things use a modern Gnome style.
Anything, but with tmux running inside. You can copy text even in a tty, split the terminal window, detach from and attach to tmux sessions, etc. I will never use a terminal for any moderately complex task without tmux again :)
i never got the copy part right, what configs are you using?
also, can you copy from a remote (ssh) tmux?
Copying in tmux (assuming default keybindings):
- Enter copy mode with Ctrl+b, [
- Position the cursor at the start of the text to be copied, press Ctrl+SPACE to start copying
- Position the cursor at the end of the text, press Alt+w or Ctrl+w to copy into the tmux buffer
- Press Ctrl+b, ] to paste, possibly into different pane :)
By ‘copy’, I meant between different tmux panes/windows.
If you open tmux on your host, split it into two panes and SSH into the server in one of them, then you can use this copy functionality. I’m personally not aware of a way to copy between a remote and local tmux session.
ah yes sorry i meant copy to system clipboard.
i succeed in configuring vim so it uses the system clipboard on both local and remote sessions.
i would like to do the same with tmux, but as you said too, it does not seem to be a way.
You absolutely can. You just have to use a clipboard command as the copy/paste. Add this to your
~/.tmux.conf
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "xsel -i -b" bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "xsel -i -b"
or use your favorite cli clipboard command. Note that those are using the vi bindings; you might have to adapt the config.
I rather enjoy Tilix. It can tile a single tab without tmux and it can also give special handling to links matched from regexps. I use it to go from Python stacktraces to correct line in Emacs with just a click. It can also do Quake-like terminal, which I use alot.
The project is looking for maintainers, though, so it’s possible at some point I need to start looking for alternatives…