I’m using Gnome on Fedora and was wondering what terminal everyone’s using? When I had a Mac I really liked iTerm2 and was hoping to find a suitable Linux version, but so far no such luck. I’ve tried Guake but I can’t get the F12 binding to work.
Preferably, I’d like to find a terminal that can display system stats the same way as iTerm2.
I like Alacritty with the Fish shell
Yakuake. F12 in, F12 out. Or in my case Fn+F12 because laptop.
But I’d like a plain old physical teletype.
I’ve used Tilix for years and like it a lot.
On my main workstation I use Kitty, but everywhere else I use the Chrome Secure Shell Extension.
Alacritty + zsh + tmux
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I was in the same boat, w iTern on my work Mac. I ended up with guake for drop-down term, and WezTerm for my terminal app. I use OMZSH for my shell w p10k for my theme. Dope as hell.
https://dev.to/abdfnx/oh-my-zsh-powerlevel10k-cool-terminal-1no0
Runs way snappier then Starship, looks similar.
Fish is okay too for a shell.
I tend to do a lot of remote terminal from windows so mobaxterm and vs code terminal…
Kitty on Linux and macOS. Works fine, but you have to install the terminal profile on some systems which is tedious (but easy).
Also, everyone should be using mosh/mobile shell as it’s awesome.
I’ve used quite a few different ones (such as Alacritty and Kitty), both my preferred DE’s native terminals are nice (Konsole and
gnome-terminal/kgx) but as of recently I’ve been trying out Black Box and I’m enjoying it so far!It supports the colored title bar indicators for SSH / Sudo (purple / red respectively) which is one of those small things but I appreciate it.
kgxsupports it, but doesn’t really have any customization options.Alacritty with ohmyzsh
There’s different terminals??? I just use whatever one comes default. What are the differences?
Customisability is the main draw. Maybe additional features like: support of high colour modes; browser-like tabs; transparency; background images; tile-ability and other interface integration things; ability to show images on the command line; etc.
But as many people have said here, whatever comes with your distro is almost certain to be fine for everyday use, and probably has more customisation than the average user will need.
Edit: Saving on making a second comment; GNOME Terminal is my distro’s default and what I use. I also have the venerable
xterminstalled just in case something goes wrong with GNOME Terminal and I absolutely have to have a terminal right that second. Haven’t needed it yet.
Kitty + Zsh + PowerLevel10K + [https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix](Modern Unix replacements)
Modern Unix - https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix
Thanks, not sure what happened to my poor link in transit
