Given the iTerm hullabaloo, I tried Kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/). And I am unsure why I didn’t try it sooner, except having not heard of it. As a macOS and Linux user, it is more responsive, and miles easier to configure. Took about 15 minutes to get just how I had iTerm, and having all my configs in a simple .conf file means I can integrate with my dotfiles repo quite nicely. Bye-bye iTerm.
For quite a while now, I have relied on terminal into my Windows Subsystem for Linux on my main workstation, as my daily driver. While it works all right for most cases, there are certain compatibility issues that requires a "... in WSL" search term for documentations/issues.
Close to a month now I have been using a #Ubuntu#terminal only VM on my #homelab#Proxmox cluster. For ones who can roll this out, this seems the best approach.
@AngryAnt@elan The reason I have not switched to Linux DE is mainly due to certain Microsoft productivity apps required for consulting work I do for corporate/enterprises.
I just need to figure out a workflow where I can switch Windows to a secondary workstation/VM and then I would switch to Linux DE.
Hey #Linux users of fedi- what #terminal emulator do you use? I'm looking for a QT, Wayland-compatible emulator to use. I don't really like Konsole and I've been having bugs in Tabby, so figured I'd ask here
Given the importance placed on CLI usage by many in the Linux community it's weird that a terminal isn't open by default on many Distros. Today I remembered that while on Antergos a few years ago I'd installed a terminal that you could call simply by pressing a hotkey.
Yakuake smoothly drops down from the top of your screen in response to the hotkey (the default is F12) and voila!: a ready to use terminal! Add it to Autostart and it'll run whenever you run a session of Linux, forever saving you having to load Konsole (or whatever) every time you want to use it.
And as I'm running KDE the fact it uses Konsole tech means it has that familiar look and feel, but shows Session tabbing by default foregrounding the ability to run separate terminal sessions and putting it within easy reach of GUI users and a mouse-click.
@sageofredondo@Uraael I did not know that Gnome terminal has those capabilities but I think I still prefer Tabby a little more, and iTerm2 on the Mac a lot more.
I took a look at iTerm2's features page yesterday. I can see why you'd like it: several of those features are unique to Terminal software in my experience and I get the feeling if you got used to them they'd be hard to give up. I feel the same way about the Vivaldi browser; it becomes actually painful doing without those exclusive niceites.
Nowadays terminals and other text views can get rendered with GPU acceleration support, like the kitty terminal that I use.
🤔 That means we could get bloom, chromatic aberration, distortion, depth of field and other post process effects into our terminals, what are we waiting for?