Linux

48329 readers

817 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

132

What is your favorite terminal emulator. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

145 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Personally I've been using gnome-terminal for quite a while and was fairly happy except that I needed to maintain gnome-terminal and libvte patches to get notification support. Having some sort of notification when a long-running command completes is very important to my productivity.

I've been using Konsole but not fully happy.

No hyperlink support.
Selection is lost when my prompt updates (I have the time so that I know when I have started commands).

I've been looking at other options but none-of them feel quite right.

Alacritty:

No unlimited scrollback.

Kitty:

Selection bug with updating prompt.
No unlimited scrollback.

Wezterm:

No unlimited scrollback.

Terminator:

Has this terminal group bar that I can't get rid of.
No notification support.

I realize that I am probably going to have to make a compromise (probably just go back to gnome-terminal with patches) but I figured it would be interesting to see what everyone else was using and make sure I didn't miss something.

To me the important features are:

Unlimited scrollback.
Notification support (ideally with the 777 Notify command, but if the terminal bell can make a notification that is fine).
Clean UI. (I don't use tabs so need to be able to hide the tab bar)
Hyperlink support.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure you can set alacritty and kitty to a ridiculously high number of scrollback lines, like at least several trillion. I think I just add 4 zeros on to the default and I've never had enough output for it to run out of scrollback. At some point you're going to run out of ram or storage for storing scrollback so you can't realistically have unlimited scrollback without doing something ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can use zellij for infinite scrollback. If ot takes too muxh space, use compact mode.

Also, I use konsole and it does have hyperlink support, just control-click the links.