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Kitty, hands down. GPU accelerated; native image protocol implemented by ranger, neofetch, and more; incredibly customizable; multiplexing with multiple windows and tabs; ligature support; and much more
If anybody has any questions about it, swing on over to Kitty Terminal Emulator [!kittyterimal@midwest.social]
How often do you use images inside a terminal?
Why having a Gpu-accelarated terminal? The computational power used by the graphical rendering of a terminal is minimal...
what kind of benefit can i expect from a gpu accelerated terminal?
I've been using it for a while now, and it is fine. But it is very often that I open htop and kitty is one of the big cpu wasters. Maybe I've configured something wrong? But yeah, sure, works.
I like Konsole.
It comes with KDE, supports tabs, themes, and loads very fast.
I don't really need more from a terminal than that. When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij (previously I used tmux).
When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij
Konsole does window splitting as well, doesn't it?
Konsole is pretty good
I granted I haven't tried any outside of what comes pre-installed on whatever DE I'm currently using, but yeah Konsole is the best
terminal? i think you'll find its a terminal emulator, haha! /s
i like kitty, its fast, simple, and supports ligatures.
My favorite is Alacritty but I don't use it because of stability issues lol. Kitty is popular now. It seems to have some questionable update policy but it's fixable. It supports plugins (kittens), tabs and most of the common features. Though the configuration is done in a text file. It doesn't have a GUI for it. For that I'd recommend Konsole
Most things in Linux are configured via text files. It's one of the main principles of Linux; store configs in plain text files. Saves us from having to use awful tooling like that of the windows registry. Even most GUI config settings are just manipulating a text file under the hood.
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~~ ~~no acceleration~~ it claims it has good font management, but fonts never worked properly in my experience.
Alacritty and Foot are also popular for their performance. Alacritty does have some stability issues though.
Kitty does use GPU acceleration
Wezterm is my daily driver.
I use foot because it's wayland native and the developer is a very nice person. Only thing missing from it for me is ligature support.
A close second for me is WezTerm. It is very full featured, although I do not use a lot of its features. Developer is also extremely nice and helpful. It does have ligature support.
I personally use tiling window managers, so I have no need for built-in tiling / tabbing features.
I like kitty because:
I use blackbox, looks nice and can customize shortcuts. https://itsfoss.com/blackbox-terminal/
This. It feels like what the new gnome-console ought to have been.
ST - Simple terminal https://st.suckless.org/
Because I agree with suckless philosophy.
Whatever starts with Ctrl+Alt+T 😁
I find remapping it to Super+T natural
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.
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.
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.
Kitty, it's fast and for the most part works out of the box
Alacritty, launching tmux with fish shell. The latter shell could easily have been zsh. But a good and fast terminal w/tmux is such a nice thing to have.
Any time to wish you had bothered with tmux, is when it's already too late. If you go for this, you'll never look back.
Alacritty because it's a minimal black rectangle, perfect for using with a tiling WM
Kitty, because I like cats and GPU go brrrr
I like just good old gnome terminal. Theming scripts work well with it, like the gruvbox one that has like a hundred color themes. it's got all the right features. just works
XFCE-Terminal. Small, lightweight, Wayland if you use it and plenty of config without cryptic dotfiles.
Plus popularity due to it being the XFCE default and contributed towards by the XFCE team.
Urxvt, it supports unicode
konsole with tmux
Wezterm, because it lets me easily disable all keymaps and then reenable only those few that I use. I use tmux to handle most things, and with wezterm I don't have to worry about tmux clashing with wezterm's krymaps.
I've used Alacritty for a long time, but I am looking to switch since they moved to TOML for their config file. The migration they advertised did not work, and looking for some sample files took me to a GitHub issue thread where the devs are just... dicks. It was rather easy to write a new config file from scratch, but their attitude is just ridiculous.
Once upon a time, I loved Xfce Terminal. It use light and complete for the use-case I had. Then I wanted something that looked nicer with vin. So I started looking for an alternative.
I used alacrity for a long time (4 years). Then, I found kitty provided some nice stuffs that simplified the workflow for remote servers thanks to special ssh commands and session tabs. I used kitty for about 2-3 years. One thing I missed was that it's hard to integrate with other software because it implementa all it's crazy "kitty protocols" and pretend to use them even if they're compleynon-standard.
Recently, some misterious bug appeared and made it impossible to use. I switched to wezterm. I liked it could be configured in Lua, so it feels more coherent with my neovim configs. I just missed the mappings for switching terminal and send "!!" (i.e. execute last command). The special commands for copying custom configs on any ssh server was also missing, but it's easy to make a script for that. I haven't experienced too much with integrating it with other tools, but I suspect it's not better than kitty in this.
I gave a chance to konsole last week. I just asked myself why we (neovim users) all look for Gpu-accelarated stuffs. The improvement in performance is negligible actually. However, konsole is super-well integrated in the OS, with a scratch terminal (yakuake), file managers (dolphin, konqueror), text editors (Kate), and even simple browsers (konqueror). It provides all the features of wezterm. I still lack a key map for sending "!!" to a specific terminal, though. But I think the integration it offers is superior to that niche feature (that can be paired within neovim, btw).
