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

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BlackBox for Linux, the UI is very clean and fit so well with the rest of Gnome apps

[–] ndonkersloot@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mostly use the default terminal emulator in the desktop environment I use, currently this is the gnome terminal.

What are the main reasons one want to use another terminal emulator? IMHO if I can reszie the window and the font and font size is good or configurable it is fine..

[–] Mars@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Refresh speed, font rendering, integrated features like multiplexing, theming…

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

Some offer specific features like tabs/splits, or Quake-like drop-down. Others are just focusing on being fast to launch, or have performant rendering. Having barely any features can be a desirable feature in itself, depending on who you ask lol

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

XTerm. I used to use rxvt-unicode, but it only supports 256 colors and gave me grief when I tried to get some emacs color theme working. There's only one thing I miss, which is that rxvt-unicode reflows lines when you resize the terminal, which xterm won't do. Oh and urxvtc starts very slightly faster, but no big deal.

I also looked at kitty, and I like that the author of that one tries to champion new features, like full keyboard support on par with X11 apps. But it takes noticeably longer to start and the latency also feels worse.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have to ask. I launch new terminals with Super+Enter, I barely have time to release my key chord, and kitty is already opened. I understand "slower", but 100% slower than a couple tens milliseconds is still a couple tens of milliseconds. My WM/compositor popping up the window and shell probably take longer by themselves than the difference in launch times between those two.

YMMV depending on what you consider to be noticeable delay & latency, I guess?

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just tried this again. Kitty takes like maybe half a second to start on my machine (maybe yours is faster?). Not sure how to measure this. xterm starts almost instantly. I can type "Super+Enter ls" and it'll work. Doesn't work with kitty, the keystrokes just disappear. Is this actually important? Probably not, but it feels annoying. Like slow internet.

I might have imagined the typing latency, since it feels the same as xterm now. Maybe I'm remembering wrong. I was on the old Debian when I last tried this though, so something could have changed.

[–] _fishp0cket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, the Deepin one is gorgeous to look at, but that's not usually my concern if I'm typing in some code. My go to is Yakuake running a fish session, launched with a "Super + #" hotkey combo. Rapid access, easy to use, doesn't get in the way, customisable so it at least looks in keeping with the rest of the DE.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Tilda, because I could drop it down my screen anytime with one key tap.

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

Alacritty with tmux 👍

[–] drcabbage@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Lots of terminal jokes you could have chosen.

I prefer C6 out of Chicago O’Hare.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago

Plain ol bash

But I'm using yakuake which makes it beyond amazingly cool. Been using g that for over a decade and I'd never stop using that.

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