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

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
    hexagon
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    edit-2
    1 year ago

    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:

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