Can't live without Yakuake/Guake
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I was using alacritty for a long time, but I swapped to kitty recently when I started using Wayland
Gnome terminal, although I am on xfce. Easy to configure, has tabs and shortcuts. I am using terminal for 90 % of my work.
xfce4-terminal has always been my go-to terminal. It may not be the lightest or the best, but it does have some neat built-in features like opening a drop-down window....
eterm because I'm old skool. now get off my lawn.
I like Guake for drop down, WezTerm for everything else. I do miss iTerm2 on Linux tho, but it's close enough.
Same here whatever the DE has I would use.
Though most common answers from others would be alacritty or kitty which I see the use but feels advanced in configuration.
I use alacritty and I’m very very new to Linux. I actually found that working on the config files for alacritty helped me a ton with learning how to approach config files in general. So advanced maybe but simple enough to teach new users a ton of useful things.
uxterm because fast.
Tilda, because I like how you can bring it down the screen anytime with one button.
I've used alacritty for ages, its lack of ui is appealing on a tiling wm and it is as performant as i need it to be
For those kitty users, have anyone been able to use fonts not in the list kitty support? I only use Terminus (OTB) fonts on terminal, and when trying kitty out, I found no way to get it to use Terminus (I could only select between those supported by kitty).
Kitty can’t use bitmap fonts because of how it draws to screen & bitmap fonts don’t scale. You would need a different terminal for bitmap fonts or choose a different font.
It looks like, though OTB (opentype bitmap fonts) are different than plain bitmap fonts, and are actually supported by pango. Alacritty allows me to use Terminus OTB fonts for example. There are other true type fonts which are also sort of my plan B, which are not supported by kitty either, as mentioned, I wanted to see if there's a way not just to select between the list kitty offers, which is sort of limited. At any rate if not Terminus, I don't really like much my plan B true type fonts much...
I moved to Iosevka (custom) a few years back after a) switching to Kitty & b) realizing my eyesight was getting worse so I needed a bigger font than what Terminus provides
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I keep a Gnome Shell instance always running with a Screen session. However, what I actually use to run CLI commands is Emacs Shell, built-in to Emacs.
Emacs Shell has most of the bells and whistles you get from things like Fish shell. So I like to use Dash, a minimal POSIX shell that is much lighter weight than Bash, Zsh, or Fish. Dash provides no features -- no tab completion, no history, no line editing -- and I have Emacs add all of those features on top of Dash for me. It is amazing what a good, scriptable terminal emulator can accomplish.
Emacs Shell can be scripted using the same scripting language it uses to script the editor, file browser, window manager, and everything else. So you can script the shell to search for regular expressions and make things clickable with the mouse, or only display portions of output, creating simple interactive views around shell commands. You can bind certain click buttons or keystrokes in the editor or file manager to run shell commands in new windows. You can script the shell with "expect"-like behavior (automatically input responses to certain prompts). You can capture and collate the output of multiple commands running in parallel.
Dash for the win 🔥
I'm using the ddterm gnome extension, and it's been the best I've tried so far. Lots of customization, very few bugs, and does exactly what you need it to with no bells or whistles to distract you.
i used to love konsole because of the blur and the tabs but now i use alacritty
I just use GNOME console. Looks good and I'm not missing anything.
st. Fonts look great and I've even been able to add a vim mode for scrollback including selecting and copying text.
If I need something fast( usually on a new system) that's in most distros repos and automatically installs all it's dependencies( and doesn't have to many like gnome terminal and konsole) I tend to use sakura, though xfce terminal is also pretty good.
There are a small number of terminal emulators I would be happy to use as daily drivers and most of them have been named here but my default is kitty. It supports everything I need and a lot I don't and doesn't have any showstoppers. All the modern terminal implementations are performant enough. I used real terminals like vt-100s and vt-220s. Everything we have today is awesome by comparison. We fetishize performance and features too much. Once you have something that works there isn't much reason to change IMO.
Konsole and Alacritty when in Hyprland
Konsole, because I can use it in editor(Kate), file manager(Dolphin), IDE(KDevelop), standalone window and Quake style window.
I use 3. I never use anything integrated into an IDE for some reason, never started and probably never will.
- Yakuake as drop down terminal 90%
- Black box for nice looking full screen terminal for full screen.
- Dolphin with emulator on bottom for niche things
If I could only have one for the rest of my life I'd be torn between Yakuake and Konsole. I love Konsole though, used it for years and is all round great for sticking with the DE aesthetics and integrating with themes.
Termux 😅 (Android is also linux,embedded one)
Console (gnome) w/ bash currently
Gnome console :/ works.
Termius because somehow I glitched the free trial for like 8 months and love having all the hosts saved and synced across devices. The android app is pretty damn slick. Can save frequent commands and has a password clipboard thing, probably not the right way to describe it. That said, if I'm just opening a local sesh on my Pop!_OS desktop I use the bundled one for that.
xterm
Konsole, for no reasons actually
I use kitty, it's fast and it allows me to use it as an image viewer