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I'd love to use a terminal with similar features on linux

stephen-mw 11y ago
I found iterm2 to be my most-missed piece of software when switching to linux desktop. Terminator just doesn't compare with ease-of-use, look, and feel. Gnome terminal is nice but lacks some of the rich features.
Watabou 11y ago
Terminator comes close, but to be honest, iTerm2 still beats it with its user friendliness and features. It's really interesting how OS X is the one that has a terminal emulator with the most features out there. iTerm2 now comes with 24-bit colors, command completion popup, notifications, triggers, profiles, mouseless copy, split panes, search, and you can even have inline images/gifs all out of the box with zero or minimal configuration required. That's just awesome. All of these features and iTerm2 still feels much faster than Terminator to me.
- rhubarbquid 11y ago
  > It's really interesting how OS X is the one that has a terminal emulator with the most features out there. In my experience, the vast majority of web developers use OS X. Those of us doing server side and devops work spend a lot of time in the terminal
- mariusmg 11y ago
  "It's really interesting how OS X is the one that has a terminal emulator with the most features out there." Actually that will be Windows with ConEmu. You can even run GUI apps inside the terminal with it.
DiabloD3 11y ago
When I still used Linux on the desktop, I just used urxvt.
- tanderson92 11y ago
  Simply in case anyone is not already aware, there are some phenomenal add-on features for urxvt through the perl extensions: https://github.com/muennich/urxvt-perls/ https://github.com/muennich/urxvt-perls/ Notably, keyboard-select allows you to cut/paste things into the X buffer from anywhere in the terminal scrollback using only keyboard shortcuts. url-select, conversely, allows you to cycle through any visible URLs and either open them in an external browser or copy them to the X buffer.

I found iterm2 to be my most-missed piece of software when switching to linux desktop. Terminator just doesn't compare with ease-of-use, look, and feel. Gnome terminal is nice but lacks some of the rich features.

Watabou 11y ago

Terminator comes close, but to be honest, iTerm2 still beats it with its user friendliness and features. It's really interesting how OS X is the one that has a terminal emulator with the most features out there. iTerm2 now comes with 24-bit colors, command completion popup, notifications, triggers, profiles, mouseless copy, split panes, search, and you can even have inline images/gifs all out of the box with zero or minimal configuration required. That's just awesome. All of these features and iTerm2 still feels much faster than Terminator to me.

rhubarbquid 11y ago
> It's really interesting how OS X is the one that has a terminal emulator with the most features out there. In my experience, the vast majority of web developers use OS X. Those of us doing server side and devops work spend a lot of time in the terminal
mariusmg 11y ago
"It's really interesting how OS X is the one that has a terminal emulator with the most features out there." Actually that will be Windows with ConEmu. You can even run GUI apps inside the terminal with it.

DiabloD3 11y ago

When I still used Linux on the desktop, I just used urxvt.

tanderson92 11y ago
Simply in case anyone is not already aware, there are some phenomenal add-on features for urxvt through the perl extensions: https://github.com/muennich/urxvt-perls/ https://github.com/muennich/urxvt-perls/ Notably, keyboard-select allows you to cut/paste things into the X buffer from anywhere in the terminal scrollback using only keyboard shortcuts. url-select, conversely, allows you to cycle through any visible URLs and either open them in an external browser or copy them to the X buffer.