What terminal emulator do you use?

Lounge
21

+1 Alacritty + tmux:

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For the Alacritty users - two little scripts by me to modify opacity on the fly:

#!/bin/bash
Str=$(grep -i background_opacity ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml)
Str=${Str:20:5}

num=$(awk "BEGIN {print $Str+0.10; exit}")

if (( $(echo "$num > 1" |bc -l) )); then
        num=1.0
fi

echo $num #debug

sed -i "/background_opacity:.*/c\background_opacity: $num" ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
touch ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

#!/bin/bash
Str=$(grep -i background_opacity ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml)
Str=${Str:20:5}

num=$(awk "BEGIN {print $Str-0.1; exit}")

if (( $(echo "$num < 0" |bc -l) )); then
        num=0.0
fi

echo $num #debug

sed -i "/background_opacity:.*/c\background_opacity: $num" ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
touch ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

Assign to shortcuts in your DE (I use super+KP_ADD/KP_MINUS).

22

I am a Xfce guy, so i use xfce4-terminal :wink:

23

Konsole here, because of what Dalto said, but mostly because I’m a lazy sod, and it comes with KDE.

24

I use Sakura primarily, although I also use Alacritty on occasion. I honestly can’t remember why I started using Sakura, but I’ve just stuck with it ever since.

Cool Retro Term is pretty slick too. I use that when I want flashbacks of when I used an Amiga.

25

I used it when I was using Gnome after reading:

https://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura It’s just so K.I.S.S.

26

Normally just Gnome-terminal. Also use Tillix sometimes.

27

I heard you like Japanese, so we put a byobu in your sakura.

28

both wrong we do have xfce4-terminal there now :wink:

https://github.com/endeavouros-team/install-scripts/blob/master/netinstall.yaml

29

I’ve liked literally everything you’ve ever made I think. Can I just ship you my laptop and just set the whole thing up for me and send it back?

30

I find myself putting xfce4-terminal on systems that are not XFCE now - because I like having the preferences so accessible, and the drop-down (and its own preferences) are so useful/easy. I don’t worry about resources, but it isn’t all that heavy anyway…

31

@anon63071375 - send me a new Ryzen laptop, don’t forget the return address… :rofl:

32

Does Tilda count? I only use it cause of the drop down functionality which is pretty much a mandatory requirement for my workflow. Other than that, when I am opening up a non drop down terminal I don’t particularly care; whatever comes with the distro is fine.

33

Since I don’t do Qt environments there are really only two I use:

xfce4 terminal and Tilix. I use either of them in any DE I use (I have ran Cinnamon with Xfce4 terminal as default many times). But since I bought a new computer I almost exclusively use Tilix even as default on Xfce.

34

I use xterm on first install because it’s always there and works. I then install either Termite or Alacritty. On my minimalist DWM installation (on my Intel NUC), I use only suckless stuff - dwm, dmenu with st, all compiled from the suckless webiste.

They are all good and I think all of these support unicode properly. One odd thing is that I have a clickable widget on Polybar that opens a terminal and runs a Pacman upgrade. It won’t work on Termite but works on the others.

If I’m honest, I would have to say that ST is all I need. With a couple of patches and ZSH, it’s perfect.

35

qterminal

qterminal

36

I’ve tried several and always come back to urxvt. It’s easy to configure, works well regardless of the wm I’m using and is fast enough for my needs. Unfortunately, I will often forget why I don’t like a particular emulator, try it out again, and then the ball is rolling as I give them all a test drive (again) :laughing: After reading all of these posts I may be terminal hopping next week…

37

I don’t even have an old ryzen laptop to send you. But I sure wish I did.

38

Xfce4-terminal is faster than Alacritty for me :grin:

39

Atleast you know what terminal you’re using.
I didn’t know it’s called gnome terminal until I decided to switch away from it :laughing:

40

tend to use gnome-terninal or tilix