I’m using Gnome on Fedora and was wondering what terminal everyone’s using? When I had a Mac I really liked iTerm2 and was hoping to find a suitable Linux version, but so far no such luck. I’ve tried Guake but I can’t get the F12 binding to work.

Preferably, I’d like to find a terminal that can display system stats the same way as iTerm2.

  • Dolphinfucker420
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    510 months ago

    There’s different terminals??? I just use whatever one comes default. What are the differences?

    • palordrolap
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      10 months ago

      Customisability is the main draw. Maybe additional features like: support of high colour modes; browser-like tabs; transparency; background images; tile-ability and other interface integration things; ability to show images on the command line; etc.

      But as many people have said here, whatever comes with your distro is almost certain to be fine for everyday use, and probably has more customisation than the average user will need.

      Edit: Saving on making a second comment; GNOME Terminal is my distro’s default and what I use. I also have the venerable xterm installed just in case something goes wrong with GNOME Terminal and I absolutely have to have a terminal right that second. Haven’t needed it yet.

      • @vividspecter@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        If not using a DE there sometimes isn’t a default (although there may be a recommendation) so that’s a justification to look into it.

      • Dolphinfucker420
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        110 months ago

        Yeah I use GNOME terminal as well but as time goes on becoming more and more of a power user so it’s cool to know about my options

  • Quazatron
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    510 months ago

    Terminator.

    When you need to have dozens of sessions open, Terminator is a good option.

  • @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
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    310 months ago

    I’ve used quite a few different ones (such as Alacritty and Kitty), both my preferred DE’s native terminals are nice (Konsole and gnome-terminal/kgx) but as of recently I’ve been trying out Black Box and I’m enjoying it so far!

    It supports the colored title bar indicators for SSH / Sudo (purple / red respectively) which is one of those small things but I appreciate it. kgx supports it, but doesn’t really have any customization options.

  • @Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world
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    310 months ago

    I too use iterm2 on Mac, and have been looking for the Linux alternative. Going to check out what others have said.