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Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend?

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!

therealjcdenton ,

Konsole and Kitty are objectively better than alacrity. So it’s a question of which of those to use. Konsole if you use the Breeze application style, and Kitty if you don’t. Konsole has the best keybinds and it actually has a scrollbar, but kitty doesn’t require breeze.

leopold ,

Konsole doesn’t require Breeze. It’s themable, like most KDE applications. It does ship with a Breeze terminal color scheme, but that’s just the default. Many more are available out of the box and creating new ones is easy.

therealjcdenton ,

QT apps don’t look right without breeze imo

jwt ,

As long as I have my aliases working and I can strip away unnecessary gui clutter, I’m fine with whatever.

Archaeopteryx ,
@Archaeopteryx@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I am a boring person and use what my DE gives me by default. Konsole is very good and I also use Yakuake a lot but I will also take a closer look at Kitty.

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m sort of in the same position I guess. I’m interested in other options, but so far Konsole has more than satisfied my needs. It does everything I need and is easy to customize.

vojel ,
@vojel@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I discovered wezterm a few weeks ago and it is really neat, works even on windows. So I can share config files between my private and my work machine. It is kinda similar to alacritty but I don’t like how the developers of alacritty talk to people on GitHub, like they are really arrogant.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh, I’m missing out on the latest “xyz dev is a jerk” drama again? Oh well …

I use Kitty, it’s a great terminal emulator that is easily extendable and gives me all the features I like.

Andy ,
@Andy@programming.dev avatar

Konsole is excellent. Wezterm is even better, and can pretty much do everything, everywhere.

There’s no need to bother with the others if you like either of these.

spacemanspiffy ,

I use both Konsole and Kitty and both are excellent.

double_oh_walter ,

I just switched to wezterm and I’m really liking it so far. Takes some time to setup and tweak, but you can do almost anything. Works “everywhere“ too.

The only thing I’m missing so far is broadcast input.

SmokeInFog , (edited )
@SmokeInFog@midwest.social avatar

Kitty, hands down. GPU accelerated; native image protocol implemented by ranger, neofetch, and more; incredibly customizable; multiplexing with multiple windows and tabs; ligature support; and much more

If anybody has any questions about it, swing on over to Kitty Terminal Emulator [!kittyterimal]

offspec ,

I have to ssh in to arbitrary systems often and Kitty seemed to have compatibility issues, which I still don’t grok but plainly can’t use

SmokeInFog ,
@SmokeInFog@midwest.social avatar

kitty requires its terminfo be set properly on the remote host. Its best to use the ssh kitten (I have it aliased), though it’s only technically required the first time on any particular box/instance. See this issue in the FAQ: I get errors about the terminal being unknown or opening the terminal failing or functional keys like arrow keys don’t work?

offspec ,

I guess my issue is that these are production machines that aren’t really meant to be mutated and I’m generally just pulling diagnostic data off of. Often I’m ssh’d in to a hub machine and jumping in to edge devices, so I couldn’t run ssh kitten if I wanted to. I think I’m probably an edge case, but it is very frustrating.

flamingos ,

I use Tilix, mostly because I’m used to it. I should probably upgrade to the plethora of new GTK4 terminal emulators, but I just can’t be bothered. Plus none of them support tiling.

fiddlestix ,

Tillix is the way.

ExtremeDullard ,
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Call me boring, but I really like the Gnome terminal.

There was one terminal that blew my mind in terms of speed and features, and it was Kitty: it’s properly fast and it’s packed with fantastic features, such as the ability to display images and play videos in the terminal itself.

However, I uninstalled it because it did one thing that really, REALLY rubbed me the wrong way: by default, it phones home to find updates.

Any software that phones home behind my back, even with good intentions, and particularly something as essential as a terminal in which you type all sorts of passwords, gets a hard pass from me. But if you don’t mind, I highly recommend it.

d3Xt3r ,

by default, it phones home to find updates.

Do you have a source for that? I just did a rough check using nethogs (on my Arch box) and I didn’t see any connections originating from kitty.

I also found this comment from the author mentioning that he wasn’t a fan of automatic updates (which implied it wasn’t a feature).

and no I dont want to do automatic updates, am not a fan of those. If and when you have an issue or want to try new functionality, its just a simple command to update it.

ExtremeDullard ,
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Do you have a source for that?

Yeah, my own eyes: it told me an update was available. That alarmed me enough to look around, and I found a toggle in the config file to disable automatic update checking. It was on by default.

Then I promptly uninstalled it. Too bad, because I really liked it.

EDIT: maybe I wasn’t clear: it doesn’t auto-update, it checks for updates. Slight difference. What bothers me with that is that it does networking operations when a terminal has no business doing any networking at all.

d3Xt3r ,

Hmm, sounds like you used a binary build that wasn’t packaged by your distro, which explains why I didn’t see any network traffic from my Kitty which I installed from the Arch repos. The config docs mentions this:

update_check_interval

The interval to periodically check if an update to kitty is available (in hours). If an update is found, a system notification is displayed informing you of the available update. The default is to check every 24 hours, set to zero to disable. Update checking is only done by the official binary builds. Distro packages or source builds do not do update checking.

ExtremeDullard ,
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Ah right. Well it’s possible, I don’t really remember. That was quite some time ago.

PoliticalCustard ,
@PoliticalCustard@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Konsole kause i’m a kde konformist… kant kontrol it.

Guenther_Amanita ,

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.

Ozy ,

Konsole is goated, legit really good.

Second to it would be Kitty in my opinion

furzegulo ,

yakuake also!

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