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iTerm2 is a beauty, is there a closest equivalent on Linux? There seem to be 25 popular choices especially now with the GPU-accelerated ones. Tried a few of th

iTerm2 is a beauty, is there a closest equivalent on Linux? There seem to be 25 popular choices especially now with the GPU-accelerated ones. Tried a few of the classics like Termite and they all seemed painfully outdated and crappy compared to iTerm.

mxschumacher 6y ago
I use iterm at work and a combination of alacritty, fish and i3-wm (so I don't open multiple tabs but just several terminal windows) on my personal machine, I'm really happy with that setup.
joelthelion 6y ago
Gnome terminal is really good.
- skrtskrt 6y ago
  On Pop OS I just stuck with gnome-terminal, it was plenty good if not quite as slick as iterm2.
  - instb3at 6y ago
    Try installing tilix and 'Oh-my-zsh'. I did that to my desktop and couldn't be any happier.
    - monopoledance 6y ago
      Or if you are up for something new, try fish, which has a nice out of the box experience and so many nice features. Like 'alt + h' for manpage of the command you are working on, or 'alt + s' to toggle sudo. Multi-line editing is a bliss too. The only thing I dearly miss is cmd <<< "string".
dsego 6y ago
There is tilix, not sure how close it comes though. https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/
buu700 6y ago
I originally discovered and started using iTerm2 because I was looking for an OS X equivalent to Yakuake, which is pretty much the same thing as Konsole but with a dropdown/Quake-like UI.
favadi 6y ago
I don’t get the love for iTerm2. I tried it before and see nothing appealing for me over the built in Terminap.app. And it seems to be slower too. On Linux, I just use whatever ship with the distro Gnome Terminal, Konsole... and they work fine.
- ndesaulniers 6y ago
  Most terminal emulators are missing support for splits; moving from iTerm2 was painful for me. Been using terminator and kitty, but I still miss iTerm2 5 years later.
  - RMPR 6y ago
    Been using a WM and Alacritty for quite some time now, but iirc Tilix supports splits.
- t00ny 6y ago
  Same here all my colleagues use it, but I don't see any advantages except maybe for the built-in split view.
- skrtskrt 6y ago
  The search for text -> tab to highlight more of a search result -> the highlighted text is already copied to the clipboard automatically workflow was such a game changer for me, it’s so snappy. Could probably be configured on other terminals?
  - techn00 6y ago
    Konsole has all of that
    - jwatt 6y ago
      One thing that irks me about Konsole is that it doesn't rewrap the scrollback when the window is resized. Apparently that will be fixed in Konsole 21.04 though: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196998 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196998
iimblack 6y ago
I like kitty
brianzelip 6y ago
I switched from iTerm2 to Hyper, which has been great and is cross platform. https://hyper.is/ https://hyper.is/
- notamy 6y ago
  How is it with lots of text being displayed? VSC's terminal is unbearably laggy for me when there's more than like 10% of the terminal covered in text, is this similar?
  - brianzelip 6y ago
    I think I know what you mean wrt Code's terminal. I haven't experienced buggyness in Hyper. Give it a try!
theta_d 6y ago
Try Terminator. If you just want the ability to do window splits easily it works pretty well. Though I do miss the tmux integration from iTerm2.
k_bx 6y ago
My solution is tmux. I’m using white status line with C-z prefix on localhost, and green status line with prefix M-z on servers. This way I can reuse my finger memory, be equally productive on macOS, local Linux, remote Linux.
cultofmetatron 6y ago
I'm on osx but I switched to kitty a year ago. Its GPU accelerated and super fast. hard to go back to term after feeling how snappy it is. Plus its available on linux as well!

mxschumacher 6y ago

I use iterm at work and a combination of alacritty, fish and i3-wm (so I don't open multiple tabs but just several terminal windows) on my personal machine, I'm really happy with that setup.

joelthelion 6y ago

Gnome terminal is really good.

skrtskrt 6y ago
On Pop OS I just stuck with gnome-terminal, it was plenty good if not quite as slick as iterm2.
- instb3at 6y ago
  Try installing tilix and 'Oh-my-zsh'. I did that to my desktop and couldn't be any happier.
  - monopoledance 6y ago
    Or if you are up for something new, try fish, which has a nice out of the box experience and so many nice features. Like 'alt + h' for manpage of the command you are working on, or 'alt + s' to toggle sudo. Multi-line editing is a bliss too. The only thing I dearly miss is cmd <<< "string".

dsego 6y ago

There is tilix, not sure how close it comes though. https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

buu700 6y ago

I originally discovered and started using iTerm2 because I was looking for an OS X equivalent to Yakuake, which is pretty much the same thing as Konsole but with a dropdown/Quake-like UI.

favadi 6y ago

I don’t get the love for iTerm2. I tried it before and see nothing appealing for me over the built in Terminap.app. And it seems to be slower too. On Linux, I just use whatever ship with the distro Gnome Terminal, Konsole... and they work fine.

ndesaulniers 6y ago
Most terminal emulators are missing support for splits; moving from iTerm2 was painful for me. Been using terminator and kitty, but I still miss iTerm2 5 years later.
- RMPR 6y ago
  Been using a WM and Alacritty for quite some time now, but iirc Tilix supports splits.
t00ny 6y ago
Same here all my colleagues use it, but I don't see any advantages except maybe for the built-in split view.
skrtskrt 6y ago
The search for text -> tab to highlight more of a search result -> the highlighted text is already copied to the clipboard automatically workflow was such a game changer for me, it’s so snappy. Could probably be configured on other terminals?
- techn00 6y ago
  Konsole has all of that
  - jwatt 6y ago
    One thing that irks me about Konsole is that it doesn't rewrap the scrollback when the window is resized. Apparently that will be fixed in Konsole 21.04 though: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196998 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196998

iimblack 6y ago

I like kitty

brianzelip 6y ago

I switched from iTerm2 to Hyper, which has been great and is cross platform. https://hyper.is/ https://hyper.is/

notamy 6y ago
How is it with lots of text being displayed? VSC's terminal is unbearably laggy for me when there's more than like 10% of the terminal covered in text, is this similar?
- brianzelip 6y ago
  I think I know what you mean wrt Code's terminal. I haven't experienced buggyness in Hyper. Give it a try!

theta_d 6y ago

Try Terminator. If you just want the ability to do window splits easily it works pretty well. Though I do miss the tmux integration from iTerm2.

k_bx 6y ago

My solution is tmux. I’m using white status line with C-z prefix on localhost, and green status line with prefix M-z on servers. This way I can reuse my finger memory, be equally productive on macOS, local Linux, remote Linux.

cultofmetatron 6y ago

I'm on osx but I switched to kitty a year ago. Its GPU accelerated and super fast. hard to go back to term after feeling how snappy it is. Plus its available on linux as well!