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.
@Uraael On a #Mac OS desktop I use #iTerm2 and I really wish someone would port that to #Linux, or make a clone of it, because in my opinion it is far better than any native Linux #terminal program I have seen. The best cross-platform terminal app I have found is #Tabby, which has some of iTerm2's functionality (including tabs, if you can't tell from the name) but I still prefer iTerm2, which I have set to automatically restart after a reboot on my Mac.
@sageofredondo@Uraael I don't use KDE so not familiar with Konsole. Is gnome terminal what is used in Ubuntu? If so I have never seen tabs in it but then I haven't really played with it that much.
You would have to use iTerm2 to really appreciate it (and maybe you wouldn't, it is not for everyone) but the thing I like is that first you can have profiles for the various systems you connect to, and you can have them listed in a side panel so all you have to do is double click on them to make a connection in a new tab, which is incredibly convenient (please don't suggest options that involve memorizing keystrokes, my memory is terrible!).
But also, just below that side panel is another panel that shows a history of everything you have copied from one of the terminal tabs, and you can paste any visible item just by clicking on it. So you can go to one session in one tab and highlight a few separate items, then switch to a completely different session (maybe on a completely different machine) and paste any of those items just by double clicking on them.
And those are just the things I find useful. I have read comments from several people who are much more into terminal usage than I who say they love iTerm2 and wish there was a Linux version. They are using features that I don't even understand. I just normally log into a system, do some task such as using apt to upgrade the software, and log out - I'm not a programmer. If I have to move files around I use Midnight Commander which works very well in iTerm2.
I'll have to see if I can find a video tutorial on gnome terminal but if it doesn't let you easily set up profiles for systems you connect to then it would not work for me. Tabby does let you set up profiles so at least it has that (but no side panel you can click to instantly select a profile). It does not have the clipboard history panel though.
@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.
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