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Which terminal emulator do you use? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've always just used konsole or gnome terminal. Never really looked into what else is available. Tried cool-retro-term the other day, but the novelty wore off pretty fast for me.

Curious to see if there's a terminal someone swears by and refuses to use anything else.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So the “terminal” is the basic CLI that you use in the single-user, text-based mode. Terminal emulators are graphical programs that run in multi-user, graphics-based mode, and they hook into the terminal and allow you to access it inside graphical sessions. Some examples would be alacritty, kitty, urxvt, konsole, or terminator

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for taking the time.

I've been using the literal terminal app like a caveman I guess... What do these weird apps give me over my regular terminal?

People mentioned tabs and stuff but like... I have tabs?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Every "terminal app" is a terminal emulator, because non-emulated terminals are physical pieces of hardware.

So you are already using a terminal emulator, I'd guess Gnome Terminal, and it's a fairly full featured modern terminal emulator (in my opinion at least).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks I actually thought this was about emulators like the Tektronics Vt 4052 terminal emulator I used to use.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

That's exactly what they are, but instead of connecting to a VAX at the other end of a modem they talk to a shell attached to a pseudo terminal device on the same machine.