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Re: "re: Are You a Terminal Emulator Hipster?"
I really like Konsole with tabs. When I switched to ChromeOS for my main work machine I discovered that SSH in a tab actually works reasonably well. I use so many other web tools for work that mixing console tabs and normal browser tabs is actually kinda convenient.
2023-09-14 · 8 months ago
🐻 moddedBear · 2023-09-15 at 01:28:
I was using foot because it's the one that's typically recommended for Wayland compositors like Sway and Hyprland. It's pretty good, really fast... no complaints really.
I've been using the Gnome terminal ever since I started using Gnome and haven't felt the need to switch.
🌙 dmoonfire · 2023-09-15 at 04:07:
I'm fond of kitty these days. Relatively simple, good keyboard shortcuts, and tabs.
🚀 stack · 2023-09-15 at 13:02:
I became a suckless hipster this year and use st. Dead simple and fast and tiny, just the way I like it. Likewise, DWM is all I need in life, no more idiotic desktops.
🦀 jeang3nie · 2023-09-15 at 16:31:
I used to maintain my own terminal emulator, zterm, based on gtk3 which had tabs and split panes. It's entire reason for existence was to have those features but with a smaller interface. I've since switched to using Alacrity and the Zellij multiplexer, which does everything that tmux does but to my mind has better defaults. I could easily swap Alacritty out for any of st, zterm, rxvt, foot or others.
i3wm+the kitty terminal+vim as my IDE here - very lean setup and no extra libraries....leads to a very fast workflow
🦉 ResetReboot · 2023-09-15 at 19:16:
I used to just go with the default. Lately, specially for using Vim as my IDE, I switched to Kitty, that has some of the new fancy stuff for fonts. And when you get a 4K monitor from the company, well... it makes sense to have a speedy GPU accelerated terminal that can rended fonts well.
re: Are You a Terminal Emulator Hipster? — I stopped using Gnome Terminal when I stopped using Gnome. It's a fine terminal, but it requires a ton of library packages that you don't need unless you're already running gnome. I think I might have had some problems with fonts as well, but it's so long ago that I doubt that would still be an issue. I switched to Konsole for a while, which...