I have recently jumped head first into the Linux space. I’ve installed Arch on my daily driver and I’ve become overwhelmed/overjoyed with my options. I’d like to hear from the community about your Linux favorites.
What is your favorite Terminal Emulator and what have you done to customize it?
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I’ve been using Alacritty for a while. It’s fast and does everything I need.
I don’t really have a preference for a specific TE. As long as the default background is black. And not something close to black but not quite. And as long as Ctrl-Shift-V is paste.
Used to be termite for its minimalist feature. Now that it’s gone I move on to Wezterm. Occasionally I use alacrity to connect to armbian nodes because it can’t recognize wezterm. I hate kitty, not because of the terminal itself, but the dev. There is a snarky comment at github issue made by kitty’s dev when people request for a termite-like feature. It drove me to uninstall kitty straight away.
Alacritty + tmux OR urxvt
I use Alacritty and have only themed its colors
Been using foot for like 4 years.
Konsole because it does everything I need it to and naturally integrates with Dolphin, which is something I like a lot. (F4 may be my most pressed Fn key thanks to this.)
As for customization, switched from bash to fish and use some fisher plugins for added convenience, along with the Tide prompt. I still use bash for some scripts, but that’s about the extent of it.
Also, I use a light theme, so feel free to crucify me.
Wezterm for me, I like the multiplexer that comes with it.
Microsoft terminal. It has profiles for each connection and Ligature support for fonts. Font rendering is good. Theming is nice.
Edit: in the linux world i like konsole and xfce terminal.
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I use kitty and alacritty most important thing is editting the dot profiles in bash or zsh to get color codes for things and autocorrection.
I also use Kitty with the Fish shell and the Tide plugin. Looks quite fancy compared to the standard terminal.
I use both WezTerm and Kitty, they are both great with customization. You can see my config in dotfiles here https://github.com/haunt98/dotfiles