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Forgive my ignorance, but what are big differences between terminal emulators that push people to one vs another? Does making use of terminal multiplexer, like
by justin_oaks 4y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but what are big differences between terminal emulators that push people to one vs another?
Does making use of terminal multiplexer, like tmux or GNU screen, make some of those differences less important?
I mostly use whatever terminal emulator is on my system. Currently that's xfce4-terminal. But I use GNU screen so I only ever have one terminal window open and I almost exclusively use the keyboard shortcuts for GNU screen instead of terminal shortcuts.
- justin_oaks 4y agoSeveral people mentioned Kitty, so I looked at the screencast on the Kitty website to see what features Kitty has. While it has some neat features, like showing the current directory or the currently running command, I'm pretty sure that running tmux or GNU screen would break those features and most others. So it looks to me like you can use a fancy terminal emulator with cool features, or you can use a terminal multiplexer (tmux or GNU screen), but the two don't mix.
- gh02t 4y agoI use Kitty with Tmux, no reason you can't. It's still a fast and simple terminal even without the other features.
- CoolCold 4y agoI have 3 to 10 terminals open per virtual desktop on average. Screen/tmux lives inside each of them with 99.9% chance.
- jakobnissen 4y agoI've chosen my terminal because it looks better, and renders font beautifully, and it is fast. I look at a terminal for hours a day, so looks matter. And there are several cli tools where I can see Gnome's built-in terminal lag. Other factors include whether it has built-in multiplexer so you don't have to deal with tmux, and picture-in-terminal support