What's your preferred terminal?
I'm using Gnome on Fedora and was wondering what terminal everyone's using? When I had a Mac I really liked iTerm2 and was hoping to find a suitable Linux version, but so far no such luck. I've tried Guake but I can't get the F12 binding to work.
Preferably, I'd like to find a terminal that can display system stats the same way as iTerm2.
I like Alacritty with the Fish shell
I use that, plus https://starship.rs/
I like kitty a lot
I've used Tilix for years and like it a lot.
There's different terminals???? I just use whatever one comes default. What are the differences?
Customisability is the main draw. Maybe additional features like: support of high colour modes; browser-like tabs; transparency; background images; tile-ability and other interface integration things; ability to show images on the command line; etc.
But as many people have said here, whatever comes with your distro is almost certain to be fine for everyday use, and probably has more customisation than the average user will need.
Edit: Saving on making a second comment; GNOME Terminal is my distro's default and what I use. I also have the venerable xterm installed just in case something goes wrong with GNOME Terminal and I absolutely have to have a terminal right that second. Haven't needed it yet.
If not using a DE there sometimes isn't a default (although there may be a recommendation) so that's a justification to look into it.
Yeah I use GNOME terminal as well but as time goes on becoming more and more of a power user so it's cool to know about my options
Terminator.
When you need to have dozens of sessions open, Terminator is a good option.
Yakuake. F12 in, F12 out. Or in my case Fn+F12 because laptop.
But I'd like a plain old physical teletype.
Kitty + Zsh + PowerLevel10K + [https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix](Modern Unix replacements)
Modern Unix - https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix
Thanks, not sure what happened to my poor link in transit
Alacritty with ohmyzsh
I use Alacritty with bash
Either xfce-terminal or st
foot if on Wayland. st if on Xorg. But I'd love something like foot with tmux built-in.
I've used quite a few different ones (such as Alacritty and Kitty), both my preferred DE's native terminals are nice (Konsole and gnome-terminal/kgx) but as of recently I've been trying out Black Box and I'm enjoying it so far!
It supports the colored title bar indicators for SSH / Sudo (purple / red respectively) which is one of those small things but I appreciate it. kgx supports it, but doesn't really have any customization options.
Tilix is nice, other than that I tend to just use whichever is packaged
On my main workstation I use Kitty, but everywhere else I use the Chrome Secure Shell Extension.
I'm a simple man; I like to use GNOME so any terminal that feels at home on GNOME suits me. Currently, I've been in a phase in which I primarily use GNOME Console because of how GNOME Terminal doesn't play nice with tiling managers. Though Black Box is definitely tempting me.
foot with foot-server in the background, instantly opens
I tend to do a lot of remote terminal from windows so mobaxterm and vs code terminal…
Kitty on Linux and macOS. Works fine, but you have to install the terminal profile on some systems which is tedious (but easy).
Also, everyone should be using mosh/mobile shell as it’s awesome.
I was in the same boat, w iTern on my work Mac. I ended up with guake for drop-down term, and WezTerm for my terminal app. I use OMZSH for my shell w p10k for my theme. Dope as hell.
https://dev.to/abdfnx/oh-my-zsh-powerlevel10k-cool-terminal-1no0
Runs way snappier then Starship, looks similar.
Fish is okay too for a shell.