I’m reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Gnome terminal. I don’t really care the terminal emulator. What’s in the terminal is what’s important. The terminal window just needs to be able to resize correctly though.

    • sqwerty@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Same here - it comes with Gnome distros by default so nothing to install. I keep all the default settings except for disabling the annoying bell.

  • flux@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    I rather enjoy Tilix. It can tile a single tab without tmux and it can also give special handling to links matched from regexps. I use it to go from Python stacktraces to correct line in Emacs with just a click. It can also do Quake-like terminal, which I use alot.

    The project is looking for maintainers, though, so it’s possible at some point I need to start looking for alternatives…

  • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
    6·
    1 year ago

    I use foot together with foot-server. The client opens in less than a millisecond, and I usually have tens of terminal windows open at the same time. Tabbing comes from the window manager.

    • 30p87@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      And it’s pretty customizable, without UI stuff. Just pure config files, my favorite.

  • fernandu00@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’m using foot since I’ve installed sway and it’s just fine …not a super user to evaluate well

  • Vorthas@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Been using kitty for a while now, though honestly any terminal emulator works for me.

  • chenxiaolong@lemm.ee
    5·
    1 year ago

    I primarily use Alacritty. I spend quite a lot of time running things that produce ludicrous amounts of output (eg. compiling Android from source). Out of 10 or so terminal emulators I’ve tested earlier this year, it was the only one that didn’t use 100% CPU displaying all that output, staying in the low single digits.

    I’d prefer to use Wezterm because I like its lua configuration system and the builtin pane splitting, but with my workload, I still run into issues where its CPU usage shoots to 100% and becomes non-responsive for a while. (That said, it’s already a lot better than before. I try to report any issues I can reliably reproduce and Wez has been wonderful about fixing them.)

  • hackris@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    Anything, but with tmux running inside. You can copy text even in a tty, split the terminal window, detach from and attach to tmux sessions, etc. I will never use a terminal for any moderately complex task without tmux again :)

    • Rescuer6394@feddit.nl
      0·
      1 year ago

      i never got the copy part right, what configs are you using?

      also, can you copy from a remote (ssh) tmux?

      • hackris@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Copying in tmux (assuming default keybindings):

        1. Enter copy mode with Ctrl+b, [
        2. Position the cursor at the start of the text to be copied, press Ctrl+SPACE to start copying
        3. Position the cursor at the end of the text, press Alt+w or Ctrl+w to copy into the tmux buffer
        4. Press Ctrl+b, ] to paste, possibly into different pane :)

        By ‘copy’, I meant between different tmux panes/windows.

        If you open tmux on your host, split it into two panes and SSH into the server in one of them, then you can use this copy functionality. I’m personally not aware of a way to copy between a remote and local tmux session.

        • Rescuer6394@feddit.nl
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          1 year ago

          ah yes sorry i meant copy to system clipboard.

          i succeed in configuring vim so it uses the system clipboard on both local and remote sessions.

          i would like to do the same with tmux, but as you said too, it does not seem to be a way.

          • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            You absolutely can. You just have to use a clipboard command as the copy/paste. Add this to your ~/.tmux.conf

            bind-key -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "xsel -i -b"
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "xsel -i -b"

            or use your favorite cli clipboard command. Note that those are using the vi bindings; you might have to adapt the config.

    • addie@feddit.uk
      1·
      1 year ago

      My choice as well. I do my C++ development in Vim, and the keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs were the best I’d found. The easy screen-splitting is great when manipulating virtual machines, or having a man page open when working on scripts.

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    4·
    1 year ago

    I use Kitty, because it works well on both X and Wayland, and is GPU accelerated. For some reason, Alacritty doesn’t display the fonts properly (Displays them much smaller on Wayland. Only program I have such issues with)

    Also Kitty is more widely packaged (for example on Debian based distros)