Favorite (preferably free) terminal.
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@popester said in Favorite (preferably free) terminal.:
My attempts at searching the forum did not bear fruit: I am trying to learn about Linux and don't really care for the standard terminal that comes with Mac. It works fine, I would just hope that someone has come up with a slicker, more powerful substitute. Thank you.
So which is it? Mac or Linux? These are 2 different systems.
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@IRJ said in Favorite (preferably free) terminal.:
Terminator
@popester
Just make sure to searchTerminator Terminal. lol
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@marcinozga Agreed. To clarify, my workstation is a Mac Mini, I am connecting to VM's that I am spinning up in our production environment (isolated of course), and on an old workstation that I installed fedora server 31 configured with KVN.
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Out the ones that was mentioned here. I believe tmux is the only that can be used in a Non-GUI environment.
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@black3dynamite said in Favorite (preferably free) terminal.:
Out the ones that was mentioned here. I believe tmux is the only that can be used in a Non-GUI environment.
He's working from Mac, there is no non-gui environment there. He's looking for Terminal (Mac app) replacement, not terminal for Linux.
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@marcinozga said in Favorite (preferably free) terminal.:
That's cool, it has tmux integration.
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Use wine to run putty? What do you dislike about the native app / what are you looking for in a replacement?
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@notverypunny said in Favorite (preferably free) terminal.:
What do you dislike about the native app / what are you looking for in a replacement?
Truthfully: I am not real sure....
I do not have a level of experience with terminals that would enable me to distinguish bad from good. I am sure it works fine. It is just that there is potential and possibility out there and I wanted to ask the professionals to see if there was something better. Digging a hole with your hands works, but what if there is a shovel out there, or better yet a backhoe. -
@popester said in Favorite (preferably free) terminal.:
@notverypunny said in Favorite (preferably free) terminal.:
What do you dislike about the native app / what are you looking for in a replacement?
Truthfully: I am not real sure....
I do not have a level of experience with terminals that would enable me to distinguish bad from good. I am sure it works fine. It is just that there is potential and possibility out there and I wanted to ask the professionals to see if there was something better. Digging a hole with your hands works, but what if there is a shovel out there, or better yet a backhoe.Are you sure that what you don't like is related to the terminal? The terminal itself does relatively little. It handles your copy/paste functions, the font rendering and stuff like that, but that's about it. The terminal does extremely little. I'm no Mac fan, but their terminal is very solid and standard, essentially the same as all of the big ones.
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Quake style terminals famously pop down from the top of the screen. That's one "feature" that some terminals have.
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@scottalanmiller said in Favorite (preferably free) terminal.:
@popester said in Favorite (preferably free) terminal.:
Are you sure that what you don't like is related to the terminal? The terminal itself does relatively little. It handles your copy/paste functions, the font rendering and stuff like that, but that's about it. The terminal does extremely little. I'm no Mac fan, but their terminal is very solid and standard, essentially the same as all of the big ones.
Understood. Thank you.
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@popester maybe play with some key terminal apps from other systems and see if some are ones you like. Windows PowerShell has a terminal by default that everyone uses. Ubuntu and Fedora both come with a stock term and loads of alternatives. You can see how they vary, and how they are all alike pretty easily.
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I primarily work from a MacBook Pro and use a combination of the following:
- iterm2
- tmux
- FISH shell
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@RamblingBiped FISH is nice, but it's the shell not the terminal. You can use it in any terminal.
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Once you are in the terminal, there's not much to modify other than your shell and such. I mean maybe the terminal doesn't support certain shortcuts or doesn't support a specific color scheme but that's usually it.
To keep a consistent feel across all of my devices I keep all of my dotfiles in a repo. When I open the terminal it auto pulls from the repo to keep everything in sync. This is stuff like zsh, tmux, vim, etc. I know it's not the terminal itself but it gives you a very consistent feel across all of your devices.
For example, when I first open a terminal I get this:
It automatically starts a tmux session and updates my dotfiles if I need it.
I wouldn't worry about the terminal. If you want to customize something, I'd make sure to customize your dotfiles to your liking.
Unless you're talking about PuTTY. Then I can't stand it and usually install literally anything else.
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@scottalanmiller Yep, I just wanted to share the configuration I use as my daily driver because it makes working in the terminal that much more efficient. The OP mentioned wanting something that was a bit slicker and more powerful, and I think in addition to your choice of terminal, your choice of shell and other tools contributes to having a better experience. I prefer FISH for my shell, and tmux is my terminal multiplexor of choice. ZSH is another great alternative shell as well.
