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I have recently jumped head first into the Linux space. I've installed Arch on my daily driver and I've become overwhelmed/overjoyed with my options. I'd like to hear from the community about your Linux favorites.

What is your favorite Terminal Emulator and what have you done to customize it?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use kitty and alacritty most important thing is editting the dot profiles in bash or zsh to get color codes for things and autocorrection.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I second kitty. I switched from urxvt to konsole to get support for ligatures. Then I switched to kitty because it also has ligatures, it's faster than konsole, and it's easier to configure with version-controlled files.

I don't do very much customization: font, line spacing, color scheme, and a couple of custom key bindings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you get modern kitty on ubuntu based distros? I'm on pop os and there are no ppas or packages within the last few years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lunar Lobster has 0.26.5, which is from November. Coulda gone with something a little fresher, but it isn't that severely out of date.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I also use Kitty with the Fish shell and the Tide plugin. Looks quite fancy compared to the standard terminal.