I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?
Xterm
Ah, I See You’re a Man of Culture As Well.
Whatever starts with
Ctrl+Alt+T😁super + enter
windows command prompt :-)
Super+X, Igang
I find remapping it to Super+T natural
Urxvt, it supports unicode
I use blackbox, looks nice and can customize shortcuts. https://itsfoss.com/blackbox-terminal/
Blackbox is a WM, not a terminal! (get off my lawn!)
I used to use Fluxbox back in the day, what’s the modern equivalent?
I think Openbox is the main survivor of the *box WMs – Openbox has become pretty much the default choice for small Linux distros, either with a few utilities like crunchbangplusplus or BunsenLabs or as the base of a lightweight DE like LXDE/LXQt
Damn this was my first thought too.
Someone pass me an AARP card and a Costco-sized tube of ointment…
This. It feels like what the new gnome-console ought to have been.
I use ddterm. It’s a gnome extension that adds a Drop Down Terminal. I quite like how easy it is to bring it up and hide it again, at the press of a button. You can even hide it without closing it, so it’s great for testing web apps.
Sounds a lot like Yakuake for KDE Plasma.
VT2. Sometimes 3.
Accidentally put my comment as a reply to yours, sorry :>
Ptyxis, formerly Prompt. I used urxvt for many years but eventually settled on GNOME Terminal after transitioning to the GNOME environment for most of my devices. Ptyxis is a slick and quick container-centric GTK 4 terminal that fits well with my Fedora Silverblue container-based workflow.
Wezterm is my favourite because it’s really configurable and supports ligatures. Konsole is also quite nice. Generally I’m in favour of using whichever one comes with your DE, or Wezterm if you use a WM.
Kitty is probably the most popular one, but I don’t like it cause no ligature support.
Alacritty and Foot are also popular for their performance. Alacritty does have some stability issues though.
Wezterm is my daily driver.
Kitty Ligatures
It’s Alacritty that doesn’t support ligatures.Kitty does use GPU acceleration
Favorite terminal? iTerm2 on mac, hands-down. Wish they would port it to Linux.
On Linux though, I usually end up using guake, as I like having easy drop-down global access to my terminal.
Terminator and zsh shell with oh my zsh
https://medium.com/@ferhatsukrurende/terminator-zsh-ohmyzsh-58ba4303bd09
ST - Simple terminal https://st.suckless.org/
Because I agree with suckless philosophy.
Can’t argue with that, minimalism is based. (I say this as a non-minimalist)
My favourite is foot. Minimal, fast, easy to configure. Wayland-only though
ADM-3A for beauty and the vim keys.
TRS-80 DT-1 for weirdness.
IBM 5251 for beam spring keys.
DEC VT320 because library nostalgia.
What’s my favourite terminal? The one that fits my desktop environment. When I used XFCE I used its terminal, when I used i3 I used kitty, and now I use blackbox on Gnome.
Well I’ll throw in my endorsement for kitty. I like the ligature support, the fact that it can be configured to hide all UI, and it uses text files for configuration that I can put in my dot files repo.
There are some particular features that I use constantly:
I can yank a file path to the prompt from previous output by pressing ctrl+shift+p then f then a 1-character label. I can do the same with a git hash (or other hash) by pressing h instead of f.
I can scroll back and search previous output using only the keyboard with ctrl+shift+h which puts the terminal history in a pager.
I can get the output of only the previous command in a pager with ctrl+shift+g. Or jump to previous prompts with ctrl+shift+x and ctrl+shift+z.
I use kitty-scrollback.nvim which replaces that pager with neovim so I can use all of my editor features to search history, copy what I want, etc.
