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What's your favorite terminal? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking for a new terminal. What's your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 months ago (13 children)

My favorite is Alacritty but I don't use it because of stability issues lol. Kitty is popular now. It seems to have some questionable update policy but it's fixable. It supports plugins (kittens), tabs and most of the common features. Though the configuration is done in a text file. It doesn't have a GUI for it. For that I'd recommend Konsole

[–] Plasma@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What stability issues have you encountered?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't remember all of them but now I have a weird issue that when I open Alacritty there's some loading going on in the background for quite a few seconds which I can even see on the cursor (I think it's "xdg" that's loading) and even reinstalling the system didn't help

[–] Plasma@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh I think I know what you mean. Did you try setting your shell to something like sh instead of bash or zsh and see if it was a shell startup issue?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

sh is just an alias for the default shell. And also idk how to set that

[–] Plasma@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And your default shell is a POSIX compliant shell, usually dash or ash, so that's what I mean by sh. You can set it in ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml with:

[shell]
program = "/bin/sh"

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Just tried that. Didn't help

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