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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] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

alacritty! only problem is no ligatures 😭

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Kitty and wezterm do, they are pretty comparable to alacritty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

when individual characters join together. it is defined in the font. such as fi or ff in writing, or => forming an arrow, or >= looking like the mathematical form. often using when coding, to make multi-character operators look nicer.

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

Some languages have characters which are really two letters mushed together, like:

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

ligatures are when you join two or more glyphs into a single one. For instance, instead of having the two characters = and > to form => if you had ligature support you would see ⇒. Some terminals have support to recognize sequences like => (and others obviously) and turn them into their corresponding ligatures (only for display though, the actual file contents remain umchanged)

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

A feature in my book! 😄