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What terminal are you using that crashes so often? I’ve used Linux and Mac terminals for ages and cannot remember one terminal crash.

by blunte 5y ago

jefft255 5y ago
Same for me in Linux and Windows. If your terminal regularly crashes because of memory corruption, there’s something wrong with your setup.
vidarh 5y ago
I have run across one - of maybe a dozen terminals I've tested because I'm difficult and have very specific requirements of a terminal - that crashes on weird input. I can't even remember which one it was, because I moved on, but odds are it was while testing unusual features like Sixel or ReGIS support.
LukeShu 5y ago
rxvt-unicode regularly segfaults... during "quit".
paulfurtado 5y ago
It's been a while, but gnome-terminal on earlier gnome 3 releases used to segfault very frequently for me. It's the thing that finally made me seek out other terminal emulators
- woodruffw 5y ago
  I had the same experience with gnome-terminal back on Ubuntu 14.04 (or maybe even 12.04, it's been a while).
woodruffw 5y ago
Maybe it's the way I use it, but iTerm2 crashes (or hangs) fairly regularly for me on macOS. I usually need to restart it at least once a week, which means losing ~dozens of tabs with context in them. I use urxvt on Linux, and I don't have any problems with it. Edit: I should also mention that I see plenty of non-crashing, non-hanging bugs with iTerm2 that look like memory misuse to me: split-workspace mode (tiled with a text editor) causes wonky graphical errors, and I've seen what looked like buffer reuse artifacts when switching between monitors.
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Macha 5y ago
I crashed iTerm2... once. In 6 years that I used it. Oh and the VS code embedded terminal has stopped rendering on me once. I cannot recall any crashes in alacritty, gnome-terminal, xfce-terminal or the legacy windows console for other terminals I've used a decent amount.

What terminal are you using that crashes so often? I’ve used Linux and Mac terminals for ages and cannot remember one terminal crash.

by blunte 5y ago

What terminal are you using that crashes so often? I’ve used Linux and Mac terminals for ages and cannot remember one terminal crash.

jefft255 5y ago

Same for me in Linux and Windows. If your terminal regularly crashes because of memory corruption, there’s something wrong with your setup.

vidarh 5y ago

I have run across one - of maybe a dozen terminals I've tested because I'm difficult and have very specific requirements of a terminal - that crashes on weird input. I can't even remember which one it was, because I moved on, but odds are it was while testing unusual features like Sixel or ReGIS support.

LukeShu 5y ago

rxvt-unicode regularly segfaults... during "quit".

paulfurtado 5y ago

It's been a while, but gnome-terminal on earlier gnome 3 releases used to segfault very frequently for me. It's the thing that finally made me seek out other terminal emulators

woodruffw 5y ago
I had the same experience with gnome-terminal back on Ubuntu 14.04 (or maybe even 12.04, it's been a while).

woodruffw 5y ago

Maybe it's the way I use it, but iTerm2 crashes (or hangs) fairly regularly for me on macOS. I usually need to restart it at least once a week, which means losing ~dozens of tabs with context in them. I use urxvt on Linux, and I don't have any problems with it. Edit: I should also mention that I see plenty of non-crashing, non-hanging bugs with iTerm2 that look like memory misuse to me: split-workspace mode (tiled with a text editor) causes wonky graphical errors, and I've seen what looked like buffer reuse artifacts when switching between monitors.

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Macha 5y ago

I crashed iTerm2... once. In 6 years that I used it. Oh and the VS code embedded terminal has stopped rendering on me once. I cannot recall any crashes in alacritty, gnome-terminal, xfce-terminal or the legacy windows console for other terminals I've used a decent amount.