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.
Konsole is awesome and has great integration with Plasma ofc. I’m surprised to see it barely mentioned.
I use the one that comes with my DE, but if I am using a WM I use kitty
Surprised nobody mentioned Yakuake. Just discovered it’s just for kde. Been using it for years. It hides at the top of my screen and slides down when the cursor hits the top. Full desktop when not used and can access it no matter which app I’m using.
The one with your distro shipped with
If they care about terminal emulators, it’s unlikely their distro came with one preinstalled.
Not a new project, but I feel is often overlooked: Sakura. I’ve fallen back to it repeatedly over the years. It is lightweight, opinionated but sane. Not as brutalist as st. I combo it with Tmux using powerline with little tweaking.
It uses standard libraries and stays out of the way.
I consider st a great choice when using i3 or dwm. Customizing it takes time, but RAM usage is what I usually check and in case of st it is comically small.
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
I usually just get by with Alacritty and Zellij, pairs pretty well together.
foot for me
I’m somewhere between Kitty and Ptyxis.
Ptyxis is default on Bluefin, which I’m on now.
Recommend. Really nice container integration with distrobox.
Using ptyxis even on KDE, it’s neat. Very clean and some interesting integration with distrobox, definitely recommend.
Foot is the best
Alacrity or foot (foot has less features but it’s faster)
It’s between konsole and kitty for me. Both are great.
all of the fancy features that other terminals provide, I get with Tmux, so any emulator for me. I like transparent themes and that’s easy to set up in Alacritty, so that’s what I usually get
I had to switch recently because I wanted to try out font ligatures and it turns out Alacritty refuse to implement support for that 😬
oh I think I’ve come across that yeah. not a fan of them personally, so not something that I would notice lol