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Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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!

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[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (9 children)

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 3 points 9 months ago (8 children)

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 2 points 9 months ago (7 children)

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 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I usually just change TERM to xterm but I've heard that isn't a good way to do it

Also I'd rather not install stuff on every server I ssh into, I've installed it on test servers but wouldn't want to do it on prod

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I've never had issues with TERM=xterm

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