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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 suffers a similar problem wrt required packages, but not to the same degree. It's also lighter in resource usage, iirc.
In the last few years I switched to alacritty, prompted by some display bugs I was experiencing. Alacritty did solve those, and is even more lightweight and faster than konsole. It doesn't always play nice with nix, but that's my fault for using nix.
No idea where I'm gonna go once alacritty has some problem. Maybe there'll be something new and shiny by then.
But if you're using Gnome, just stick with gnome terminal.
2023-09-14 · 11 months ago
😺 gemalaya · 2023-09-14 at 18:37:
urxvt is one of the best terminal emulators i've found, it's fast and free of all the bullshit found in other fancy terms. xterm and aterm are good choices as well.
☕️ Morgan · 2023-09-14 at 18:51:
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.
🐻 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.