So, Konsole shipped by default with KDE Plasma, my current Desktop Environment. While I don’t have a problem with it, I am interested in what other people are using, because there very likely is something better out there.

Specifically I’ve seen talk of Kitty and Alacritty, although I’ve also read that the dev of Kitty is allegedly kind of a jerk, so I am specifically interested in how Konsole matches up to Alacritty in your experience, but other suggestions and general terminal emulator discussion are also welcome!

  • gkpy@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    since you seem to consider alacritty, which is pretty minimal in features, maybe give foot a shot as well. i find it fits best into tiling wm land (sway, river, etc.) so might not be your cup of tea…

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      I use i3 and don’t have a mouse. Rn I’m using Alacritty because I want to keep things minimal. Is foot a good fit for my usecase?

      • gkpy@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        not sure for i3, i think foot is wayland-only. but i have the same setup with sway and am very happy

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    I don’t get the fixation people have with terminals. I don’t think I’ve ever used one in Linux that made me think “you know, I need to install a better terminal emulator”. So I just use what comes with my DE.

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    I like Prompt.
    I use Silverblue and a lot of Distrobox containers, which is why I enjoy it that much.
    I discovered it through Bazzite.

    Before that, I used Gnome Console or Black Box, because they’re based on Libadwaita, good looking and very simple, which is enough for my needs.

  • glibg10b@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Kitty if you have a GPU and run programs that have a lot of output (build scripts and emerge). It uses the GPU for better performance.

    • Laser@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      kitty is great, for me it’s similar to mpv: it does what it’s supposed to do, no fluff. Just straight up performance.

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        Kitty is great until you SSH into a machine where it’s not installed and try to use tmux or some other commandline apps

        • Laser@feddit.de
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          9 months ago

          If it’s a machine you have control over you can install the terminfo. Or setting the TERM variable to something like xterm-256color when connecting, that usually works, though I haven’t tried with tmux.

  • Bankenstein@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    I’ve used GNOME’s terminal, Konsole, kitty, st, cool-retro-term, Alacritty, foot, and Wezterm.

    The things I want from a terminal emulator are:

    • Ligatures
    • Customisability
    • Icon support / good font management
    • High-ish performance

    Wezterm is afaik the only one with all of those.

    Konsole is actually a pretty good terminal emulator, its big downside is that it looks horribly out-of-place in anything other than Plasma. So as long as you stay on Plasma, Konsole is a good choice. If you ever move to a WM or something, I recommend foot or Wezterm.

    Alacritty has some degree of customisability, Konsole has more, but either way it’s nothing when compared to Wezterm. It is really fast though!

    The thing that skews the duel in favour of Konsole for me is the ligature support. I use neovim for programming and we all know code ligatures are a godsend, so ligature support in the terminal is very much a thing that I want.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    On Cosmic you can tile multiple windows in tabs. Tabs are essential for me, I tried Alacritty (and it had quite some issues but I got it to work) and switched back to Konsole