I have recently jumped head first into the Linux space. I’ve installed Arch on my daily driver and I’ve become overwhelmed/overjoyed with my options. I’d like to hear from the community about your Linux favorites.
What is your favorite Terminal Emulator and what have you done to customize it?
I’ve used xterm, rxvt, kitty, and now alacritty. I like alacritty because it’s fast and simple. The only thing I don’t like is that the default color scheme is off. If you run tmux in something like xterm, the bar is green. But in the default alacritty, it looks more yellow.
So I have this in my ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml:
# XTerm's default colors
colors:
# Default colors
primary:
background: '#000000'
foreground: '#d8d8d8'
# Normal colors
normal:
black: '#000000'
red: '#cd0000'
green: '#00cd00'
yellow: '#cdcd00'
blue: '#0000ee'
magenta: '#cd00cd'
cyan: '#00cdcd'
white: '#e5e5e5'
# Bright colors
bright:
black: '#7f7f7f'
red: '#ff0000'
green: '#00ff00'
yellow: '#ffff00'
blue: '#5c5cff'
magenta: '#ff00ff'
cyan: '#00ffff'
white: '#ffffff'
I haven’t needed anything different than Konsole, it works great for me.
I don’t do much customizing at the terminal. Currently I use alacritty, terminator, and st. Every few years I go through a searching-for-the-perfect-terminal and get frustrated at various shortcomings.
I’m using Alacritty. It’s fast, it includes a Vi mode within its viewport/scrollback and it is highly customizable if you want to. But I haven’t customized it much to be honest, since I mostly go straight into tmux, vim or ranger.
