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I'm looking for a new terminal. What's your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

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[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Kitty, cute name and logo

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Would be foot, but I'm using a font with ligatures so it's kitty

[–] wanghis_khan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

terminator was my go to for the longest time. Nowadays, I just use default GNOME Terminal. I just need things to work and not waste time tinkering.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want to say Alacritty+zellij but have not even tried that lol.

Konsole. It just works, has profiles etc. I highly recommend to change it to "launch every window in same process" to avoid multiple windows, create a new desktop entry replacing "konsole" with "konsole --new-tab".

And also learn Desktop actions, its very cool!

I have a profile with different colors that starts in my Distrobox.

my example desktop entry

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
TryExec=konsole
Exec=konsole --new-tab
Icon=utilities-terminal
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;
Actions=FedoraBox;root;ssh;
X-DocPath=konsole/index.html
X-DBUS-StartupType=Unique
X-KDE-AuthorizeAction=shell_access
X-KDE-Shortcuts=Ctrl+Alt+T
StartupWMClass=konsole
Keywords=terminal;console;script;run;execute;command;command-line;commandline;cli;bash;sh;shell;zsh;cmd;command prompt
Name=Konsole
GenericName=Terminal
Comment=Command line access

[Desktop Action FedoraBox]
Name=Distrobox
Icon=fedora-logo-icon
Exec=konsole --profile Fedora-Box

[Desktop Action root]
Name=root Terminal
Icon=folder-root-symbolic
Exec=konsole -e pkexec $SHELL #or define a shell

[Desktop Action ssh]
Name=ssh to X
Icon=folder-remote-symbolic
Exec=konsole -e ssh user@IP:PORT -i /path/to/key

Plasma will still display "open new window" which will instead open a new tab. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+t will also open a new tab, just as opening from Dolphin etc. Perfection!

Note that Konsole will pull in tons of dependencies, you may want to use XFCEs Terminal if you dont want that. Alacritty has no tabs which I find annoying (I hate windows).

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Call me lazy if you like, but I use GNOME terminal. Comes as standard with my distro. Does what I need. Supports fonts that aren't pixel fonts and has various look and feel tweaks accessible by GUI if I really want to get in there. I do that once after every fresh install and it's been a while since then.

Given that I loved a bit of Quake back in the day, you'd think I'd like drop down terminals like ddterm and Guake (which might not work on Wayland?), but weirdly no. I like it in a box I can move around.

I also keep the ancient xterm installed just in case and for when I get nostalgic for the old pixel fonts, but it's not exactly my go-to.

Terminology with the Nyan Cat cursor! :3 ^.^

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Favourite? Windows terminal.

Favourite Linux compatible? Vs code integrated terminal.

The one I actually use on Linux because viscose integrated terminal is not standalone? Konsole, just because it's the default In kde.

EDIT: may I know why I got downvoted? Just because I have an unpopular preference? Is this reddit?

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[–] fredix@jlai.lu -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is this for linux yet? or is it still mac only

[–] fredix@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

I use it on Linux.

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