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iTerm2
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Extremely customizable
Other than being able to customize the various shortcuts, iTerm2 also lets you customize the colorscheme, font, transparency, etc.
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Keycodes are not passed through following Linux standards
If you come from a Linux terminal emulator (Gnome Terminal, Konsole...) and you rely on key-combos that are widely supported in those, porting the same functionality to iTerm is possible but will require a lot of research and configuration on your part, so account for a long painful adoption period.
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Autocomplete is built-in
iTerm has autocomplete features built in. It remembers your past commands and when you are writing something on the terminal, simply pressing Control-; it will show you a drop down menu of suggestions from which to choose.
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Not quite as fast as Alacritty or Kitty
Comparing these 3 terminals on the same machine/config, iTerm stands out as the slowest of the bunch. The difference may not be noticeable to all users.
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Complete out of the box
Unlike most terminal emulators, iTerm2 comes with a pretty complete set of features. It has built-in search, autocompletion, tabbed navigation, Growl support and even a built-in clipboard manager for various API keys and such.
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Way too many menu items and settings
Finding the right one is like searching for a needle in a haystack.
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Fine tuning for fonts
It's possible to choose a font and adjust vertical and horizontal spacing.
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Doesn't support Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Some people still use Snow Leopard or other 32-bit systems.
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Can immediately open files inside a text editor
You can Ctrl+Click on a file path to open said file in a text editor.
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Doesn't support RTL
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Supports mouse actions
Has support for mouse actions like clicking, dragging, selecting, etc.
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Active maintainers
Issues resolved fast by quality contributors.
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Works well with powerline fonts
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Completely free and open source
iTerm2 is completely free and open source. It's released under the GPLv2 license.
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Split panes
Easy to split panes to either horizontal or vertical sections. Makes it easy to observe multiple console windows.
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Supported by many applications as a terminal app selection
If an application has terminal integration, there is high probability it allows iTerm2 to be selected.
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Cmd+Shift+I to Input all
Wanna SSH your server from multiple tabs, here you go.
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Intuitive
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You only need to type in commands once
iTerm2 can store up to 4M of history of commands you already used. This, coupled with the built-in search features makes it possible to type a command only once and then search for it through the history for subsequent uses.
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Works perfect with Oh My Zsh
It's a perfect base to add Oh My Zsh on top of it and enjoy a lot of themes and a really pleasant look and feel.
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Works well with tmux
The great mouse and clipboard support that are built-in go really well with tmux.
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Any key can be mapped to any function
Using the Preferences Menu you can set up hotkeys to map virtually any action you can think of to a single key or a combination of them. This is extremely helpful as it allows you to use shortcuts to edit commands you are typing in the terminal and while most terminal emulators have shortcuts for this sort of thing, few of them let you define your own.
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GPU-rendered, blazing fast and super smooth
Many people say they use Kitty or Alacritty because they are GPU-rendered. That was true a long time ago. But iTerm2 has been GPU rendered for years now. It's so fast and smooth that you soon forget you are in a terminal.
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Beautiful, minimalistic and elegant UI
It's super-clean and during use it gets completely out of the way, it's a beautiful canvas for your terminal work, a pure joy that never gets old.
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Can be configured as a drop-down terminal
Can be configured to work as a drop down terminal like Quake.
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Cmd+D to split plane vertically
Very handy to use multi-tab.
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Supported platforms:
macOS
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Extraterm
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speed
not the fastest ever, but for me its a good comprimise of features vs performance
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Cross platform
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Supports tab, splits and panes
You can set up your own layout with multiple splits and tabs.
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Shell integration
The shell integration makes it possible to group in command output in "frames" which show success/failure.
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Image support
You can view images and other data types like audio directly in the terminal.
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Keyboard based text selection
It is possible to go into a cursor mode where you can select text just like in a text editor. It even supports multiple cursors.
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Global shortcuts
You can configure global shortcuts to open the terminal.
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Keyboard friendly "Command Palette"
Just like Sublime, Atom and VSCode you can easily search and find commands from the drop down Command Palette.
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License:
MIT
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cool-retro-term
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Mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens
Cool-retro-term mimics the look of old cathode screens. This is just aesthetic, but great for people who want a more retro feel.
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Not very practical by today's standards
While it certainly has an aesthetic feel, cool-retro-term is nothing more than a cool trick if you want to play around. It's not very useful in this day and age.
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Good rendering
If you disable every special effect and the framing, the rendering is actually quite comfortable and readable making a good terminal option if you have CPU cycles to spare.
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Extremely heavy and impactful on resources
A massive amount of resources are used as graphical processing in cool-retro-term. They are ridiculously heavy for the terminal's intended use.
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Good fun
For simple tasks this is wonderful - anyone seeing it will love it, takes me back to using the Commodore Pet in college in the early 80's.
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Large dependency on kde
It looks like many of the effects present here are provided by more or less stock kde effect libraries. For Gnome-based systems, installing this will pull in a large handful of kde libs.
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Available in multiple repositories
This terminal is available for download from repositories in all the most popular distros, making it easily available.
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Alacritty
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Blazing fast rendering with GPU-accelerated
Written in Rust with a philosophy focusing on speed and simplicity, Alacritty is one of the fastest terminal emulators out there.
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Cannot into ligatures
Alacritty does not support ligatures in Fira Code, Iosevka etc.
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Looks good
Alacritty looks very slick on Linux, especially with GNOME or i3.
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Unreliable Font Rendering
Like a box of chocolate you never know what you're going to get.
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Simple configuration
The configuration file is very well made and easy to use. You can fine tune your preferences to perfection in a matter of minutes.
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Sacrifices basic features for raw performance
The Suzuki GSXR of terminals. Or your ditzy, blonde high school cheerleader; fast and pretty but not a lot going on under the hood. Eschews a negative developmental philosophy towards including said functionality, with the official reason cited in project documentation as "Not within the realm of a terminal emulator" and ostensibly, "best left up to other tools such as terminal multiplexers" [such as screen or tmux]. Which is unfortunate when you factor in speed against terminal with the functionality built in vs their reliance on 3rd party tools: tmux on alacritty: 'find /usr' time: 3.234s, cpu: 72% tmux on konsole: find /usr' time: 1.777s, cpu: 96% See issue here.
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Comprehensive font options
Alacritty can be configured to adjust line spacing (height), letter spacing (width), and individual character horizontal/vertical positions.
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Has support for image previews in w3m and ranger
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Has text ref-low when window is resized
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Fast and simple but with true color support
It's simple and fast like xterm or urxvt but with truecolor support which is a big plus if you use a terminal based code editor. Basically Alacritty has all the features you need and nothing you don't (if you're using tmux for multiplexing).
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Font Ligatures:
No
Configurable:
Yes, via automatically reloading YAML configuration file
GPU Acceleration:
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Tabby Terminal
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Some functions still fail
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It looks just beautiful
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Graphics bugs on all platforms
On Windows 10 and Debian 11, Debian 12 the graphics starts bug after some usage. It always happens, even on different computers.
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It's open source
This helps the community to move software forward and to make it even better.
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Slow with input lag
Sadly, Electron strikes again. The input lag is noticeable and annoying. Startup also takes like 2 seconds or more (On an i7 from 2016 with SSD).
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It comes with plugins
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80MB
It's huge. The amount of resources it consumes is not justifiable.
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Customizable
A lot of things can be easily configured, e.g. color theme, size, window frame behavior, tab location, cursor style, hotkeys, etc.
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Cannot remove the default profiles
For example, you installed Arch Linux for Windows Subsystem for Linux some time ago, but now you have deleted it and currently use Ubuntu on WSL. After that, if you decide to try this terminal emulator, you'll find Arch there without an option to remove the profiles already included in Terminus.
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Is cross-platform
Even the question was "...for Windows", it's nice if you can use your tools over different platforms.
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Under active development
Hyper development has basically stalled out.
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Excellent interface
At start opens last session terminals. Also has terminal tabs.
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Integrated GitBash, Cmd, PowerShell, and WSL
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Integrates with git-bash with a simple toggle in the interface
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License:
MIT
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Terminal.app
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Default terminal on Mac
Since it is already installed by default, you don't need to worry about finding and installing another terminal.
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Updates are released rarely
Terminal usually gets an update when any new MacOS version is released, which is every couple of years.
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Light on System Resources
Terminal.app lighter uses less system resources than iTerm having the same number of windows, tabs and processes going on.
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Tab names are volatile
The tab names never stick -- it's imperative that this should work.
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Great compatibility
Works with everything.
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Background images are stretched rather than clipped
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Easily open man pages
By right clicking on a highlighted string you can easily search through the man pages for that string and the man page will open in a nice pop up window.
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Occasionally crashes
Working remotely with a full buffer may cause complete terminal app crash.
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Excellent xterm emulation support
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Home and End keys require shift being pressed
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Beautiful
Terminal has nice colors and font options.
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ZOC Terminal
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Modern look
ZOC has a modern design.
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Hard to configure
It does not detect the installed shells (PowerShell, CMD, etc) automatically.
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An actual "Terminal Emulator"
It's an actual terminal emulator (in the sense that it emulates a terminal) and not just a local console window app.
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Options creep
It has so many options that it's hard to find the one you need.
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Scriptable
Zoc provides complete automation of the client using its macro scripting.
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Not free
Zoc requires a commercial license in order to use it, implying that it's not free.
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Flexibility in platform support
Originally developed for OS/2 (as Zap-O-Comm), Zoc is currently available for Windows and Macintosh.
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Can view and send to all sessions at once
Offers a thumbnail view of all session in thumbnails and type commands to all sessions at the same time.
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Supports serial and dial-up connections
In addition to telnet, ssh, and rlogin, ZOC supports direct serial connections, modem dialing, and named pipes.
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Tabbed sessions allows for easy navigation
Tabbed sessions mean that multiple items can be contained within a single window and can be easily navigated by the user.
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Hideable UI
Zoc allows for every UI component except the title bar to be hidden. All features are accessible through the context menu.
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Auto-Highlight feature
Feature to search for text bits in the data stream and highlight them with color/background.
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kitty
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Window tiling
Very elegant keyboard shortcuts for creating and navigating between tiled terminals within each tab with no appreciable lag.
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Extensible Kitten framework
Supports plugins to add features one at a time for those who need them. Examples include Unicode input and side-by-side diffs.
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Tabs for multiple instances
Operate several terminals from one window using the tabs feature, allowing you to make simultaneous connections to different remote hosts.
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Scrollback buffer viewer
Allows for viewing the scrollback buffer in an external pager of your choice ('less' by default, with support for 'more' and 'most'), a huge benefit for turning actions taken in a live terminal session into a script for efficiency or dissemination or collaborating on workflows.
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Controlled and configured from the shell prompt within the program itself
No graphical menus to clutter the screen saves system resources and time once you learn that all those options are still available from the command line within the app.
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WezTerm
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Supports multiple windows, tabs, splits/panes
tmux-like functionality with native UI even on Windows systems allows managing multiple terminal sessions how you like.
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Lua learning curve for config
The only reason it would be difficult to recommend is that it's for experienced programmers.
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Looks good
Highly customizable appearance and comes with over 240 built-in color schemes.
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Open Source and Free
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Supports font ligatures and stylistic sets
Ships with JetBrains Mono, a modern programmers font, so that you can enjoy modern typographical features such as contextual ligatures and font variations/stylistic sets in your terminal environment.
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GPU Accelerated
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Font Ligatures:
Yes, with control over shaping and stylistic sets
GPU Acceleration:
Yes
Configurable:
Lua based live reloading configuration
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