I’ve always just used konsole or gnome terminal. Never really looked into what else is available. Tried cool-retro-term the other day, but the novelty wore off pretty fast for me.
Curious to see if there’s a terminal someone swears by and refuses to use anything else.
foot terminal (on swayfx)
it seems to be what sway recommends, therefore i tried it, and ended up liking it. one of the main features i love is how it lets you open links by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+O and selecting them with the keyboard.
also, i don’t like having a bunch of stuff in one window, since i prefer to let my window manager manage the windows, instead of having a terminal multiplexer or the emulator itself manage window placement.
with that, i use foot in multiple separate windows, one for each program. this works for me because foot has a server mode, where each window is a client, making resource usage lower.
the only (small) feature i’m missing with foot is font ligatures, which i’m fairly sure it lacks. i wouldn’t mind using another terminal emulator. i’ve used kitty, alacritty, konsole, wezterm, etc. before and i think they’re all pretty great in their own ways.