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- St if I use X11 wm
- Konsole if I use KDE
- Foot if I use wayland wm
Usually whatever fits in best with the DE I'm using. I'm on Pop!, so that's Gnome Terminal currently. I'm excited to see when System76's Pop!_OS's COSMIC Desktop will bring with an alacritty-based terminal emulator.
I use ddterm. It's a gnome extension that adds a Drop Down Terminal. I quite like how easy it is to bring it up and hide it again, at the press of a button. You can even hide it without closing it, so it's great for testing web apps.
Sounds a lot like Yakuake for KDE Plasma.
None, they all have pros & cons.
The most popular in the Linux space is probably Alacritty & Kitty.
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I like Tilix, since it lets me split the terminal with a keyboard shortcut and easily switch between terminals too. I tried using GNOME terminal + tmux, but having to hit Ctrl+b before the command I wanted got tedious fast.
I like Terminator for its mouse-controlled multiplexing. I also like the fact that it's made with Python, although I haven't utilized this fact in practice.
I don't know if it's Plasma dependent, but I love using yakuake on my laptop for the convenience of pressing F4 and it just popping up. I know there are shortcuts for making a terminal pop up, but I really like how yakuake closes itself when you click out of it.
Couldn't tell you about the technical side of yakuake, but I will say I just love the convenience more than anything else.
Favorite terminal? iTerm2 on mac, hands-down. Wish they would port it to Linux.
On Linux though, I usually end up using guake, as I like having easy drop-down global access to my terminal.
Foot is the fastest and I use it as default. Second is Kitty because it uses GPU acceleration.
Illness
Mine is yakuake simply because it's a drop down one so it integrates well into my desktop.
What's my favourite terminal? The one that fits my desktop environment. When I used XFCE I used its terminal, when I used i3 I used kitty, and now I use blackbox on Gnome.
Terminator and zsh shell with oh my zsh
https://medium.com/@ferhatsukrurende/terminator-zsh-ohmyzsh-58ba4303bd09
Wezterm. Featureful like kitty but supports bitmap fonts.
I've tried a lot of them over the whole history of Linux, but what I use now is kitty.
Wezterm. I started out on konsole, and was happy with it, but then I started using zellij as my terminal multiplexer. Although zellij allows you to configure what command copies and pastes text, copy/paste on wayland and windows only works by default with wezterm. It gives me consistency across multiple DEs/OSes, with minimal configuration, which is good because I was setting up development environments for many people, with many configurations
Call me lazy, but I like terminal 1. Usually shortest distance from the station building.
Kitty and Konsole
9term is what I use the most. Once you get used to the Plan9 way, you kind of like it. Sometimes I use Terminator as well. Konsole is like Terminator, both are good. They are both nicer than kitty for me. I tried kitty, went back to Terminator as it has menus to edit things, not just a text file.
I use kitty, specifically because of the icat kitten (that draws images on the terminal) and its integration with the lf file manager's preview.
I like Terminator,
for it's ability to split one terminal window into as much as you want:
https://gnome-terminator.org/
In combination with Fish shell,
for it's auto completion + syntax highlighting:
https://fishshell.com/
And lastly, BobTheFish,
a nice git-aware powerline theme to go along with it:
https://github.com/oh-my-fish/theme-bobthefish
I too am a terminator+fish user!
Love me some fish! Though for more complex data processing, I'm working on learning nushell. Being able to work with more complex data structures is amazing.
I like terminology
It’s quick, gpu accelerated, can natively display images, and I’m not sure what else.
I don’t use the rest of enlightenment de but have stuck with terminology for years
I use Hyper because it’s pretty simple to setup the way you want it and carry the config across OSs.
I don't have one specific as my favorite anymore and currently use Konsole from KDE. If you like tinkering with files and want it highly customizable through configuration files instead a gui, then probably Kitty is the best (and the closest to being my favorite). Alacritty is also a good one, but its quite simple and lacks some features in my opinion. I didn't try too many, but these 3 are the top three I would consider using in the ~~feature~~ future.