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What's your favorite terminal? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a new terminal. What's your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Alacritty, launching tmux with fish shell. The latter shell could easily have been zsh. But a good and fast terminal w/tmux is such a nice thing to have.

Any time to wish you had bothered with tmux, is when it's already too late. If you go for this, you'll never look back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How auto tmux?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Don't know why you were downvoted. In any case, all terminals can be configured to start with a specific command and arguments. So, depending on your terminal, you might need to read the documentation, and/or search the web.

In alacritty config, this is:

shell:
  program: <CMD>
  args:
    - <ARGS>

Then one of these:

<CMD> is the path to tmux, and you have configured tmux to run the shell of your choice. Search the web for how.
<CMD> is the path to your shell, and it supports launching in tmux. Search the web for how.

For me, it's the second one. I use fish, and I launch it with fish --command=tmux. So the above config looks like this:

shell:
  program: /usr/bin/fish
  args:
    - --command=tmux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Awesome. Thanks. I'll set that up later.