what is the best linux terminal? I have been using alacritty for years and have been doing well. But I don’t think kitty and st. I was wondering if any new projects have come out in recent years.
I tried Wezterm and it’s not bad, but I had a bit of trouble configuring it and it seems a bit heavy to me. Recently, in order to use certain applications, I was forced to abandon alacritty and switch to kitty, and I must say I really like it. The tabs are not very useful to me since I use a tiling window manager and tmux, but it has a lot of interesting features and is really easy to configure. I didn’t remember it being so well done. Although alacritty seems to me to be the best due to its simplicity and minimalism. Just my humble opinion.
What’s wrong with kitty?
I’ve been using kitty for some time didn’t had any issues, and multiplexing is useful.
PS: i used tmux for many years, and still use on headless
I personally don’t use Kitty because, for me, it’s much slower to open compared to Alacritty. :)
There is no one-size-fits-all, but for fits most, you’re looking at KDE’s Konsole or GNOME’s new Terminal (formerly Ptyxis). Everything else is going to be niche, with special use cases. What are your specific needs?
People keep recommending terminal emulators, but I think they’re missing your point.
I’m not aware of anyone making new terminals these days. In my opinion DIGITAL is still king. They are getting a bit hard to come by. VT220 used to be the gold standard, but a VT420 or VT520 is still worth it if you can find one.
Looks like there are a few VT420s on eBay going for up to $200. Prices aren’t what they used to be.
They specifically mentioned alacritty which is a terminal emulator
Yes, and now they’re looking for a real terminal
Konsole is awesome and has great integration with Plasma ofc. I’m surprised to see it barely mentioned.
Alacritty. Alacritty. Alacritty. And did I mention Alacritty? (I’m just counting how many I have open atm)
I use whatever with zsh and oh my zsh
Alacritty is fine. If you’re not combining it with tmux and zsh/fish, id pluck those fruits first.
Tmux was too complicated for me so I’m using Byobu instead
Tmux with a few custom key bindings is amazing. Kind of a learning curve, but not nearly as difficult as something like Vim.
Tmux with a few custom key bindings
Yeah, like I said: Byobu! :p
The one with your distro shipped with
I don’t know if it’s the best, but kitty + zsh has been my daily driver for many years.
Just switched from Alacritty, kitty+zsh rocks. Feels faster than alacritty, and the tutorialization of the default config is great. And it’s wildly configurable.
Tilda because you can roll it down from the top of your screen with one key press.
Is it better than yaquake? I’m genuinely curious.
It’s roughly the same. I never used the tabbing features, so I can’t comment. But until wayland came along, it was always there for me, working away just fine.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis
Ptyxis is my current go-to. It can detect available pods or toolboxes (maybe docker too haven’t tested it) and you can open terminals directly into them. It also highlights ssh terms and root shells differently.
There are a huge number of built-in color schemes as well and I’ve had no trouble finding any configuration option I’ve found myself wanting to look for.
It’s also available on flathub so it’s easily installed in most distros.
Terminator for me. It has tiles and tabs and does everything I need.
foot for me
