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Terminus: a configurable terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and Linux
- algorithm_dk 7y agoi would never consider using an electron-based terminal, but for casual users it looks really pretty
- panpanna 7y agoYou would be surprised how many people do. Ubuntu (gnome actually) has a small but very competent disk tool. Yet people recommend Etcher for writing disk images to USB because it's cute.
- KitDuncan 7y agoEtcher does have really nice UX for casual users though. It couldn't really be much easier to use.
- zeroimpl 7y ago“Doesn't choke on fast-flowing outputs” Nice to see a terminal addressing this issue. Even worse is when the output is super long and has no newlines. That can freeze up my whole desktop at work for minutes.
- mikl 7y agoWhat's so modern about it? Does it do anything that iTerm2 doesn't do just as well?
- craftyguy 7y agoIt requires a full web browser to run (built on electron, complete with google analytics!), so I guess including a ton of unneeded/spyware crap makes things 'modern' now.
- quangio 7y agoalterNATIVE option is kitty, gpu based, non electron, tab, font ligature... (basically has everything terminus does).
- bpye 7y agoAlacritty is my favourite - no ligatures or tabs but super fast and runs everywhere.
- indemnity 7y agoI used to use Hyper (electron), but I have Alacritty looking exactly like Hyper now. Just as pretty, much lighter and faster. Starts up in a fraction of the time. Keeps up with fast scrolling text. Cross platform too!
- kstenerud 7y agoI wonder why kitty has packages for every major distribution except Ubuntu?
- KitDuncan 7y agoIt does on 19.04 I just installed it this week.
- bitwalker 7y ago+1 for kitty, it is fast and lightweight and provides all the features I've wanted out of my terminal
- IronBacon 7y agoFor every new terminal I test if they can handle tricky unicode or locking escape sequences. I tried right now the kitty terminal available on Debian Buster, and echo -e "\033(0" still requires to reset the terminal (don't paste the above in your working session if you can't type reset without visual feedback). P.S. still using Gnome-terminal that it doesn't handle locking escapes... ^__^;
- simondelacourt 7y agoDownloaded it, but tbh, can't really see where it is better than any other native terminal. For OS X its a hefty 100 megabytes, just for a terminal app, with plugins, Google Analytics and a lot of styling.
- mikl 7y ago> Google Analytics Ah, wonderful. Google and whoever is developing the app snooping on what you do in your terminal. What could go wrong?
- aplummer 7y agoI wish GitHub had a warning when it detected analytics software in a repo.
- p2t2p 7y agoSounds like a good thing to add to Travis CI or some static analyses tool.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoIt annoys me that the README correctly indicates this is a terminal emulator, but not the title
- anderber 7y agoDownloaded and tried it out, really nice. I think I'll use it as my default terminal to test it out some more.
- HelloNurse 7y agoDownloaded and deleted after reading it's Electron-based.
- zakk 7y ago100 MB for a terminal emulator? Debian's package for xterm is 200 times smaller, but OK, let's try... Google Analytics? Thanks, I'll pass on this one!
- crispinb 7y ago> 100 MB for a terminal emulator? Silly on any Linux or on OS X. The available alternatives are too good, and not such a daft size. But it's a real contender on Windows where terminal apps are dire (if improving fast). > Google Analytics? There's a setting for it. On or off - user's choice.
- lucideer 7y agoIf it's on by default, it can't reasonably be called a user's choice.
- crispinb 7y agoA user who can't flick a switch on a settings screen has bigger problems than google analytics.
- fimdomeio 7y agoa user who has to flick a thousand switch a day in multiple apps and sites to have things the way he wants probably as given up and doesn't have the things the way he wants.
- lucideer 7y agoA user has to: (a) be aware of the existence of said switch for every app they use (b) be aware of the ramifications of that setting/feature (something I fear even many devs don't fully grok). (c) Most importantly, can only opt-out after the fact: Google analytics runs before you have any opportunity to access the settings panel.
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- jeromescuggs 7y agohard for me to use terminals that override shell themes with their own colors now that i both 1) do more work over ssh 2) use base16-shell gun to my head though, i'd maybe use terminus over hyper primarily due to being able to easily open new tabs to wsl/ps/cmd pretty much out of the box
- enriquto 7y agoVery shitty of them to use the same name of a well known terminal font.
- guessmyname 7y agoI use iTerm (unfortunately only available for macOS) [1] There’s a theme that makes it look compact (nicer?) [2] iTerm is native, supports plugins (Python scripting API), is CPU/RAM friendly, with milliseconds input (very important for touch typing), it’s open source (GPL v2) [3][4], the author is a proficient programmer which I hope to sponsor via GitHub Sponsors program soon [5] although you can already sponsor him via Patreon [6], offers smooth split panes, hotkey, buffer search, intelligent autocomplete, instant replay, an exaggerated amount of extra options available from the application settings, additional shell integrations, inline images, password manager, annotations, and the list of features continues with the beta builds. Having spent several years using Linux (xterm [7], gnome-terminal [8], guake [9], terminator [10], among others), then moving on to macOS (Terminal.app [11] then iTerm.app), and with the recent news in the Windows world [12], I don’t see any reasons why would anyone install a terminal emulator built on top of a web browser, when there’s a good list of alternatives using native libraries and UI, with much more performance, and better features. But as people say, to each their own. [1] https://www.iterm2.com/features.html https://www.iterm2.com/features.html [2] https://i.imgur.com/46mY0O6.png https://i.imgur.com/46mY0O6.png [3] https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2 https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2 [4] https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2 https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2 [5] https://github.com/gnachman https://github.com/gnachman [6] https://www.patreon.com/gnachman https://www.patreon.com/gnachman [7] https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ [8] https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-terminal https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-terminal [9] http://guake-project.org/ http://guake-project.org/ [10] https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gettingstarted.html https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gettingstar... [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28macOS%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28macOS%29 [12] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
- VvR-Ox 7y agoThis is so true! I hate that I can't use iTerm2 on linux and I think it's quite ironic that the best terminal emulator is not made for linux and on top of that also free (instead of many other OSX apps). Hope some day we'll get it there - maybe with the github sponsoring option he'll get enough to implement it for linux? Who knows.
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- hn_user2 7y agoLooks like an electron app. This is not going to be so nice to battery life compared to existing options.
- LyndsySimon 7y agoI find Hyper isn’t bad at all in that respect, as long as you don’t have a lot of fancy effects happening.
- ComodoHacker 7y agoElectron? Electron of course!
- ThinkBeat 7y agoI download and tried this a while back and it did not work with Midnight Commander over SSH. It also failed a few other command line apps I tried. My favorite terminal application is Zoc https://www.emtec.com/zoc/ https://www.emtec.com/zoc/ Works on Mac and Windows. It has handled anything I have thrown at it so far including some rather obscure stuff well. The thing I hate is the price.
- nineteen999 7y agoYou're spot on that it handles some obscure stuff; I recently had a need for ZMODEM over telnet+SSL, and ZOC was the only modern thing I could find that did that.
- patates 7y agoI looked at its features and I'd say it's rather cheap, given what it supports.
- cyrusmg 7y agoJust tried this on 2K monitor. How exactly is this "A terminal for a more modern age" when the font is not readable with size 11 (and it is easily readable in iTerm2 with the same settings) ?
- wetpaws 7y agoElectron based terminal is truly an apex of insanity of our modern era.
- rigelbm 7y ago"Sanctuary for all. Community for all. Those who arrive survive." Are they trying to say something by using the name of a well known cannibal group?
- folkhack 7y agoWhat the actual @#%&. Since when did my terminal need Google Analytics? Also buggy. Was installed for about 5 minutes before I "noped" the hell out of this one... can we all agree to not use Electron for an app unless it's a super "web-y" one like Slack or Spotify? kthx. If anyone has an iterm2 replacement for Linux I'm all ears: * Guake-style dropdown support * Tabs (on the bottom) * Splits w/o screen for scrollback I can't believe I have to use three separate terminal applications on Linux in 2019 for modern features...
- viklove 7y agoTerminator
- folkhack 7y agoYep - already use it and love it. The problem with Terminator is opening it on same monitor that my cursor is on with a keyboard shortcut key. Guake is (I think) the only one that gets that right without custom scripting. Been researching alternative solutions all morning and I think I'm going to have to hammer something custom out in bash with xdotool, xrandr, PID lookups, etc. looks down the rabbit hole - hold my beer, I'm goin' in.
- Fnoord 7y agoAlacritty + Tmux (+ WM/DE keybinds) does the job for me. Good performance, cross-platform, able to edit the config file on the fly. But it doesn't have tabs. That's what I use Tmux (with plugins) for. You can make Alacritty fullscreen with a keybind. I also had to change some default configuration settings.