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what is the best linux terminal? I have been using alacritty for years and have been doing well. But I don't think kitty and st. I was wondering if any new projects have come out in recent years.

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Foot is the best

[–] spleaque@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

Foot because it's sway default. It's also configurable, has shortcuts and sixel support.

[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] EuCaue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

ghostty looks promising, but it's in "closed beta" for now. When it's released, it will be public and open source. :)

[–] Spyder@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I run multiple terminal apps. I thought I would try a few, and I never deleted any of them.

[–] hjjanger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Xterm for me. As others have shown there are other ones that are newer than that but Xterm has become my favorite.

[–] box_ebony@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I tried Wezterm and it's not bad, but I had a bit of trouble configuring it and it seems a bit heavy to me. Recently, in order to use certain applications, I was forced to abandon alacritty and switch to kitty, and I must say I really like it. The tabs are not very useful to me since I use a tiling window manager and tmux, but it has a lot of interesting features and is really easy to configure. I didn't remember it being so well done. Although alacritty seems to me to be the best due to its simplicity and minimalism. Just my humble opinion.

[–] snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

all of the fancy features that other terminals provide, I get with Tmux, so any emulator for me. I like transparent themes and that's easy to set up in Alacritty, so that's what I usually get

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[–] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I consider st a great choice when using i3 or dwm. Customizing it takes time, but RAM usage is what I usually check and in case of st it is comically small.

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