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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.

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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like Alacritty with the Fish shell

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] zmrl@lemmy.run 4 points 1 year ago

Starship is really nice. I install it everywhere I use a terminal

[–] Qpernicus@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swapped alacrity for kitty and then foot, but same. Wezterm is nice to. But a little on the heavy side.

[–] DARbarian@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What made you move from each one? I run Kitty+Zsh on my main distro & Alacritty+fish on my gaming distro, but I can barely tell a difference.

[–] Qpernicus@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago

I use ranger and images work better in kitty and more recently in foot as well. And foot is lighter and faster than both.

[–] beefsack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add tmux to the mix and you've just described my perfect setup.

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I go for Zellij nowadays, it comes out of the box about the same as I get tmux into after a bunch of tweaking. If you like barebones tmux though you might not like Zellij.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I like kitty a lot

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 1 year ago

I've used Tilix for years and like it a lot.

[–] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's different terminals???? I just use whatever one comes default. What are the differences?

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Terminator.

When you need to have dozens of sessions open, Terminator is a good option.

[–] DARbarian@artemis.camp 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kitty + Zsh + PowerLevel10K + [https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix](Modern Unix replacements)

[–] tun@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] DARbarian@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, not sure what happened to my poor link in transit

Either xfce-terminal or st

I use Alacritty with bash

[–] ggnoredo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Alacritty with ohmyzsh

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yakuake. F12 in, F12 out. Or in my case Fn+F12 because laptop.

But I'd like a plain old physical teletype.

[–] throwawayish@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I too use iterm2 on Mac, and have been looking for the Linux alternative. Going to check out what others have said.

[–] neonred@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

foot with foot-server in the background, instantly opens

[–] Beowulf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Tilix is nice, other than that I tend to just use whichever is packaged

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

foot if on Wayland. st if on Xorg. But I'd love something like foot with tmux built-in.

[–] gerbercj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

On my main workstation I use Kitty, but everywhere else I use the Chrome Secure Shell Extension.

[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I tend to do a lot of remote terminal from windows so mobaxterm and vs code terminal…

[–] monotux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.