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I have recently jumped head first into the Linux space. I've installed Arch on my daily driver and I've become overwhelmed/overjoyed with my options. I'd like to hear from the community about your Linux favorites.

What is your favorite Terminal Emulator and what have you done to customize it?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

When I am on Hyprland I use foot. It is fast and well configurable.

My fallback is Gnome and inside I use the new kgx aka Console. I like that it shows in the window decoration's color when I'm working remotely or as super user.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Blackbox has the coloring feature, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty happy with "Console" myself. It works exactly like I expect it to, and it's new look is pretty clean. I thought "Terminal" was fine too. I use dozens of terminals a day when working, but I suppose I'm not enough of a power user to care to configure them. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

xterm. It emulates a terminal. What else would I want a terminal emulator to do?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Whatever comes with the DE. I don't use it enough to have a favorite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Konsole because it does everything I need it to and naturally integrates with Dolphin, which is something I like a lot. (F4 may be my most pressed Fn key thanks to this.)

As for customization, switched from bash to fish and use some fisher plugins for added convenience, along with the Tide prompt. I still use bash for some scripts, but that's about the extent of it.

Also, I use a light theme, so feel free to crucify me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I always liked Terminator because of the easy splitscreening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I've just started using Black Box and I really like it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Do any terminal emulators on Linux implement the tmux control protocol, i.e. tmux -cc?

I use this with iTerm2 on macOS to turn tmux windows into native tabs, and to integrate with the native scroll back buffer.

I really miss this feature on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I've used xterm, rxvt, kitty, and now alacritty. I like alacritty because it's fast and simple. The only thing I don't like is that the default color scheme is off. If you run tmux in something like xterm, the bar is green. But in the default alacritty, it looks more yellow.

So I have this in my ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml:

# XTerm's default colors
colors:
   # Default colors
   primary:
     background: '#000000'
     foreground: '#d8d8d8'
   # Normal colors
   normal:
     black:   '#000000'
     red:     '#cd0000'
     green:   '#00cd00'
     yellow:  '#cdcd00'
     blue:    '#0000ee'
     magenta: '#cd00cd'
     cyan:    '#00cdcd'
     white:   '#e5e5e5'

   # Bright colors
   bright:
     black:   '#7f7f7f'
     red:     '#ff0000'
     green:   '#00ff00'
     yellow:  '#ffff00'
     blue:    '#5c5cff'
     magenta: '#ff00ff'
     cyan:    '#00ffff'
     white:   '#ffffff'
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Don't matter much as long as I got tmux

Unless there's a Linux tty that supports -CC, like iterm2 for macOS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I am on st as well. The externalpipe patch is the killer feature for me, it's so much more flexible than the usual URL open that's built into many other terminal emulators. xterm and urxvt had something similar too. Alacritty has an open issue for the feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Depends what I'm doing, where and how. I do use tmux everywhere though but at home xfce-terminal, At work I tend to use terminator for the wonders of group control but if connecting from a windows pc i'll be on windows-terminal.

For shell I try to use zsh everywhere with p10k and omz.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Konsole and gnome shell, super lame but I haven't had any trouble with them. Ftlog mintty on windows since it comes with git. I have a terrible time with the windows console

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Started using Kona Ike dice it’s what came by default with KDE. Tried kitty, alacritty, foot (I think that was the name, on Wayland) and iterm2 on Mac… and came back to konsole in KDE and terminal.app in Mac.

Truth is I just need a simple terminal. Kitty and Alacritty and other terminals continuously had me in that’s-not-the-right-way, configuring terminal colors through ssh, or tmux compatability (kitty even says that you shouldn’t use tmux, and screen splitting should be done at the terminal, not in the server).

At the end of the day, I use whatever is installed where I work. So far, all “default” terminals seem to be enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Used to use Terminator on Cinnamon, but now I use Konsole with bindings to split horizontally and vertically on Plasma.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

st all the way. Quick to launch and it works well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

LXTerminal.

I don't know if increasing the font size counts as customization. I've got old, tired eyes.

Transparency is also turned on, which I think I did with compton. It was a long time ago and seems to persist through Debian's dist upgrades.

It's worth adding that the entire LXDE suite is great software. It just works. I hope I don't have to give it up any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sakura. Simple and fast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use both WezTerm and Kitty, they are both great with customization. You can see my config in dotfiles here https://github.com/haunt98/dotfiles

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Kitty is great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yakuake as it's just one button, F12, away. I do what I need and puff it's gone.

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