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tmux
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Easily split panes
There is a keyboard shortcut that makes it easy to split a window and create more panes.
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Poorly designed key binding
Counter-intuitive keyboard shortcuts make tmux very hard to use and learn.
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Windows linked to sessions
tmux calls the individual shell instances windows. They are displayed like tabs in the status line. These windows can be shared between different sessions, so that any given shell instance can be in any number of tmux sessions used for different purposes or by different users. This allows configurations like the following example: User A: wAB, wA1, wA2; User B: wB1, wAB, wB2
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Bad scrolling support
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Preserve the state
As long as you don't close your session, you may even lose your SSH connection, it'll keep your state just as it was. So you can resume where you left off (via tmux attach).
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No builtin telnet or serial support
It's considered bloat by the maintainers and for this reason there's no builtin support for them.
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Maximize screen space
As a tiling window manager, it'll make use of all the space. As you have multiple workspaces and you can resize, etc. you can adjust to see what matters most.
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Frequently updated
Tmux is in a state of constant development. Updates are frequent and bug reports usually get an answer within days.
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Customizable
Open ~/.tmux.conf to get started. You can customize keybindings, the bottom status bar, color schemes, the clock screen, your time zone, and more.
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Mouse support
Mouse support can optionally be enabled, allowing e.g. scrolling with the mouse wheel, or switching panes with mouse clicks.
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Only need to learn a few keyboard shortcuts and commands to make much headway
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Xfce4 terminal
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Good for systems with low specs
Like other applications included in the Xfce package, this terminal emulator is very lightweight and doesn't require many resources to run. This makes it perfect for systems that have low specs.
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Cannot set text color for character under cursor to background color
Suppose you have a dark background with a light cursor and light foreground color: the light cursor will cover up whatever character it is on, so that you cannot read it. There is no option to set the foreground color for the character under the cursor to what is normally the background color. Such an option would allow you to read the character under the cursor.
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True transparency
You can set the transparency of the Xfce4 terminal on any amount you want, out of the box.
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Execution in xfce4-terminal - e mode is not always functional
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Tabs support
Xfce4 fully supports tabs and tab-based navigation.
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Resizing text resizes window
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Almost everything is customizable
You can configure size, color, background, etc.
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No profiles
There's no profiles or profile-based customization in Xfce-terminal.
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Composition effects
Xfce4 terminal takes advantage of xfce composition effects.
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Can't scroll on spamming text
When text generates too fast, you can't scroll it, so you just can't read anything in such moments.
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Fast rendering
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Does not support sixel images
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Can be switched to a drop-down terminal
You can configure the Xfce-terminal to act as a dropdown terminal if you want, which makes for greater ease of use.
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hyper
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Made with Electron
It uses a considerable amount of resources, compared to other offerings.
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Cross-platform due to electron browser-based foundation
Although not Windows-friendly. But nobody uses Windows terminal anyway.
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Not as cross platform as advertised
Most features only work on Mac OS.
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Built on electron, supports split panels and plugins
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Incorrect rendering
Terminal window has visual artifacts.
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No configuration UI; all options must be set via JSON
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Still maturing as of December 2016
Folks noticed some issues in the 1.0 release cited here.
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Difficult to find information about it, because of the confusion with hyperterminal
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Tilda
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Highly customizable
There are tons of customizations you can make: from adding colors to text, turning backgrounds transparent, setting the size to be "maximized", toggling scrollbar on and off, adjusting orientation/borders/animation, etc.
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Contains some annoying bugs
Tilda can be buggy at times. For example, if you don't close it before shutdown, it may prompt you to reconfigure it all over again on the next boot.
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Easily accessible drop-down
The drop-down function in Tilda does not get in the way and can be accessed at any time with a keyboard shortcut.
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Few dependencies
Tilda is a very minimal and lean terminal emulator. It requires very few dependencies and the amount of resources needed is small.
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Supports transparency
You can monitor information displayed by applications under Tilda.
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Tabs support
Tilda supports tabs. By default: to open a new tab press Ctrl + Shift + t. To move through them: Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn.
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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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Guake
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Drop-down terminal
You can hit F12 (by default, though it's customizable) to open a terminal overlay, Quake-style, as a drop-down from the top of the screen.
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Not cross-platform
Linux only, and additionally targeting GTK3.
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Supports transparency
Transparency is particularly useful for when you need to refer to the information displayed by application under Guake window.
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Not very responsive
Occasionally, Guake slows down and is not very responsive.
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Hotkey support
Guake is very fast and easy to open with a customizable hotkey, meaning there's no fiddling with menus or icons.
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No font ligature
Guake uses vte for its terminal emulation, and vte simply doesn't support font ligature (yes, it's 2019). This is what its maintainer thinks about it. He really thinks supporting font ligature breaks terminal's grid, like he doesn't understand a font that's monospace is a monospace no matter if it has ligature or not.
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Extremely customizable
Guake's appearance is very customizable: from the transparency to the width and height of the window. You can also choose which key to use for toggling the terminal window.
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Available in many popular distro repositories
Guake is available in a lot of repositories for the most popular distros. This makes it very easy to obtain and install on almost any system.
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Shortcut key F12 can be used to toggle
The global shortcut key, F12, can be used to easily toggle the terminal window.
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Tabs support
Guake supports tabs, while working with them is very easy.
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Can choose byobu as shell
You can choose byobu as shell, by adding a line to /etc/shells : " /usr/bin/byobu" and get guake with byobu ... sweet!
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Konsole
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Directory and SSH bookmarking
Konsole can bookmark ssh and telnet sessions, directories, and it can open tabs in a folder for easy access.
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KDE Library dependencies
While not an issue if using KDE, when trying to use this terminal in other desktop environments or window managers, there will be a large amount of dependencies tied to the app, making for a large install size. For those trying to keep their desktop lean, this may be an issue.
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Supports split-view
Konsole supports split-view which splits the window into two (or more) konsole instances. This is very useful for people who work a lot on the terminal and don't want to spend time navigating between different windows or tabs.
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Uses a lot of memory
Although it's very fast, konsole has to use a lot of resources in return. It may use up to 30 MB per instance, depending on the number of tabs and the task at hand.
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True color and Smooth font
Konsole supports true color and smooth font. This made konsole more fanstatic than other terminal emulators.
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No good support for powerline character even with patched fonts
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Embeddable into the desktop
Konsole can be embedded into desktop so it's always easily accessible, but not in the way of other windows.
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Can mess terminal keybinds
Most the of the time, the terminal keybinds are just ignored to obey the kde keybinds. Can be configured though.
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Export of output in plain text or HTML format
By going to file > save output, you can send all screen output to a text file.
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Lack of DECSCUSR support
Konsole don't allow changing the cursor shape with extended DECSCUSR sequences, using instead the temporary-profile hack. This causes pain when working in (neo)vim inside Konsole.
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Support in Dolphin file manager
Konsole can be accessed by pressing F4 in Dolphin, which is convenient for when the user needs to open the terminal in a particular spot of the file structure.
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No support for double-width characters
Konsole no supports double width characters. For powerline users, you need to add a space after powerline glyph.
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Supports font ligature
Most terminals in Linux don't support font ligature, while many modern fonts such as PragmataPro or Fira Code already have decent coverage of font ligature. Support for font ligature makes user experience and font management much easier (i.e. you don't need to keep two copies of the same font just to use in the console)
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Helps to identify tabs using custom icons
Users can associate each bookmark or SSH session with a custom icon, thus giving a visual hint to quickly identify a tab when a lot of tabs are open.
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Supports advanced color schemes
In particular solarized.
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Notification alerts about activity in a terminal
Konsole can monitor activities and notify the user through system notifications when a certain activity happens. This is a very customizable feature too: you can write scripts that can use this feature and notify you for whatever you want.
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Exceptionally fast
Konsole is usually very fast. It boots up very quickly and takes less than a second (averages to 0.25-0.59 seconds) to display files of up to 600 MB.
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Customize and save profiles
Profiles containing different settings can be created, saved, and loaded. Color schemes, window transparency, scroll bar, key bindings, start-up commands, window border, and menu bar can all be customized according to the user's needs.
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Allows CTRL-SHIFT-c/v within WSL Ubuntu as well
Good menu to customize.
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Yakuake
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Drop-down terminal makes for ease of use
Yakuake is a drop-down terminal. This means that you can press, for example, F12, and it slides downward from the top edge of the screen. After you are done with it, you can then hit F12 again and it slides back on top.
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Theming options are very limited, Does not integrate naturally with the DE
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Very customizable
Almost everything in Yakuake is customizable: from split view, fullscreen mode, configurable dimensions, to animation speed and keybindings.
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KDE Library dependencies
While not an issue if using KDE, when trying to use this terminal in other desktop environments or window managers, there will be a large amount of dependencies tied to the app. This makes for a large install size. For those trying to keep their desktop lean, this may be an issue.
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Split layout
You can easily split any tab into different windows and run several commands at the same time then monitor and change them with ease. You won't find this feature in guake or tilda!
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No sessions support
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Tabs support
Yakuake supports tabs, while working with several tabs is very easy. By default: to open a new tab press Ctrl + Shift + t. To move through them: Shift + left/right arrow.
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No Windows support
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Monitor for activity/silence
When an activity is let working (e.g.: compiling some source or upgrading some system), and you forgot it, a nice popup and sound will alert you when the command prompt returned on that term.
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Slow
Is not slow at all. I have yakuake installed in all my computers (8) and it launches immediatly after pressing the hotkey. Must be a error from yourt side. Yakuake has started to get really slow with the latest updates: it takes up to 3 seconds to start up after you have clicked the assigned hotkey.
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Unlimited scroll history
You can scroll, inside the same terminal session, infinitely, so no command should be lost, even it isn't stored yet on history.
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Heavy
Not true at all. I from far one of the lightiest graphical terminals out there. Mine is 14MB with a bunch of split views and 4 tabs at the moment of writing this.
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Lightweight
Opens at 40MB and stays below 100MB with some tabs splitted in four each. So if you need to have many terminals emulators opened in your desktop environment, is the a very light solution for all the features it includes.
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Quick search support
Search directly in your favourite search engine just by selecting something and right clicking. It will open the browser result page.
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Quick move through splits and tabs
You can move through terminals with Ctrl+Shift+Cursors or tabs with Shift+Cursor keys, so no need to touch you mouse or pad, making working with terms even faster.
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Can be scripted using qdbus
Window composition and commands inside can be scripted using qdbus. You can make desktop shortcuts to automatically create tabs, split windows and connect to ssh sessions or launch monitoring programms. Very useful.
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Wayland support
As the entire Plasma Desktop, yakuake already has full support for Wayland.
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Save output as text
You can save the output of a terminal directly to a text file, to work properly with it later.
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Enhanced focused terminal
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Terminology
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Configuration is sometimes complicated and non-obvious
There's a "Settings" menu for configuration, but more options there would make it easier. Downloading themes and extensions from the official repo would be a big plus.
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Scalable fonts
Font size in Terminology automatically scales according to window size. When you resize the window, so does the text.
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No True-Color support
Not able to display a modern full range of colors, yet.
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Looks smashing
Terminals are often very dull looks wise, not so with terminology.
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Scrollback is completely nroken
Scrolling back the emulator inserts random lines from other places in the scrollback buffer in between the actuall output lines. Thus it is impossible to see a correct copy of the previous output.
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In-terminal video, picture and thumbnail support
Thumbnails, pictures, and videos can all be rendered in-terminal, based on the directory listing or mouse interactions. For instance, using "ls" on a picture folder will produce a list of thumbnails instead of only the filenames.
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No scrollbar
The lack of scrollbar in Terminology makes navigation difficult. But you can use keys for it.
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Splitable
You can split windows, like in terminator.
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Too many bells and whistles
Some people feel that Terminology has too many features that are not suited for a terminal, but for a window manager instead. For instance, viewing thumbnails, watching videos and gifs, and other similarly flashy things just feel like eye candy and should not be part of a terminal emulator.
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Visually customizable
It is very customizable in every aspect of the visual options.
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Integrates well with Enlightenment WM
Terminology is part of the Enlightenment WM packages. As such, it integrates really well with Enlightenment and other tools in the package.
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Block copy
You can copy text in blocks.
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Copyfree licensing
Terminology uses the Simplified BSD License. As it is a copyfree license, it tends to minimize license incompatibilities, legal compliance requirements, and various other complexities that may make it difficult to understand certain licenses.
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KiTTY
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Includes additional features over PuTTy
Sessions filter Shortcuts for pre-defined command The session launcher Automatic logon script URL hyperlinks Running a locally saved script on a remote session Send to tray Transparency Quick start of a duplicate session SSH Handler: Internet Explorer integration pscp.exe and WinSCP integration New command-line options
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No centralized configuration
Each session holds its own configuration of all features. This means that if one wants to change a configuration common to all sessions (say, the terminal font), it has to be changed in each stored session separately. A better solution would be to have a default configuration and store only the changed elements for each session (both configurations would be merged, with e priority on the specific one).
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Startup sessions
Support start-up sessions which allow you to specify the window/tab layout, working directories, and programs to run on startup.
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No tabbed sessions
No built-in support for tabbed sessions. Requires an add-on.
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Source Code Available
Source code is available so you could modify or review changes.
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No mouse support in alternative screens
Like vim, less, etc.
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Can store login credentials
Ability to store passwords/passphrases locally.
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Clickable URLs
URLs are parsed and can be clicked.
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Auto login script
Automatic processing of commands after conncetion was made.
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True Color support
Supports True Color, so software like Vim can display a really nice pallet.
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Portable version available
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Background image
Ability to overlay the terminal background with an image.
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Unicode
Uses Unicode for the best character compatibility.
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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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Multiple terminal panes to suit user's needs
It is possible to split the terminal window into several areas and you can re-size them as needed. Multiple windows and tabs are also supported.
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Heavyweight
Due to its many features, Terminator can be a bit heavyweight and with lots of dependencies. This makes it unsuitable for old machines or computers with low resources.
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Highly customizable
You can change the size, color, and give different shapes to the terminal. You can also save multiple layouts and profiles via the GUI preferences editor.
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Poor text search
Text search in Terminator does not highlight matching patterns when found. It just shows the row containing one of the matching patterns at the top of the terminal. This way text search is still usable, but not the best.
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Can type on multiple grouped terminals simultaneously
You can type at the same time on any number of arbitrarily grouped terminals. (Or all at once, or only the focussed, all switchable with a shortcut or menu item).
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Starting up can be slow
Terminator can be pretty slow (as far as terminals go) when first starting up.
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Extendable functionality through plugins
Terminator functionality can be extended via plugins. Examples of this include: Custom commands URL handlers (on top of common ones) for apt, launchpad, maven Logging output to file
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Buggy and crashy
Crashes and closes many times a day when using split (and unsplit) shortcuts. The developers don't accept a bug report if isn't critical or not easy to reproduce.
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Save and launch layouts of terminals
Terminator allows the user to save, configure, and launch arrangements of windows, tabs, and terminals.
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Bug - unable enter text after a while
A while after having a terminal window open, entering text is impossible. The terminal just sits there, not frozen, but with an empty command line.
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Configurable scrollback buffer
The scrollback lines can be set to a preferred value, or set to infinite scrollback.
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Unable to specify startup window dimensions
Some users like their terminal windows to be a particular number of characters wide and tall. The default is 80x24 but some prefer something larger. Manually resizing every new instance gets old fast.
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Can act as a drop-down terminal
If you want to use Terminator as a drop-down terminal, you can do so by editing the config file and set whichever key you want to use as a trigger.
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Updating terminal layouts via the preferences window is hard
It's easy to save & name your current layout, but it's hard to edit it. Especially when you use custom startup commands per pane.
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Configurable shortcuts
Many actions in Terminator can be triggered with configurable shortcuts.
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Multiple line copy and paste does not work correctly.
If an output line wraps onto two lines copying and pasting it will insert a line break character between the two lines even though the was no line break in the original output. Thus it is impossible to copy/paste lines longer than the terminal width.
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Both true and fake transparency
If you have a compositor, you can use true transparency. You can also have a fake transparency where an image can be used as a fake desktop. Both of these can be tinted with the background color too.
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It uses the GTK VTE widget which does not support newest features
Newer and, admittedly, non-standard terminal features can't be used in Terminator.
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Desktop notifications on silence and/or activity
There is a standard notification pop-up that appears if a terminal is silent for a configurable period, or if it has new activity.
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Cannot disable zooming
The ctrl + mouse scroll key binding can't be disabled.
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Familiar to GNOME-Terminal users
When not constrained by it's own general principles and unique features, Terminator tries to follow the GNOME-Terminal way of doing things.
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Redundant
Just use tmux instead.
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Zoom and Maximize a single terminal for aiding focus
You can zoom (font size increases) or maximize (font size does not increase) a single terminal to fill the whole window with a shortcut. All the other terminals remain open, they are just hidden from sight, and everything is restored by repeating the shortcut.
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Ugly looking
The interface and the preferences window look outdated.
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Comes with an extensive manual
Every single aspect of Terminator is exhaustively documented, and can be quickly opened with the common shortcut F1 (which is configurable, of course).
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User-friendly
Terminator has tabs, drag and drop re-ordering of terminals, and lots of keyboard shortcuts to help the user. It also has an extensive preferences window, or if you have to, a plain text config file.
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Tries to reduce resource usage through DBus
Unless this option is disabled (it's enabled by default), Terminator will only run the first instance as a process. And when it's run again, the DBus server will simply open a new window using the old process. This helps a lot with reducing resource usage.
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Can save logs
Terminator has a really helpful functionality that lets the user start/stop a logger in order to save the text written in the shell into a file. In order to do this, the user needs to turn on the logging plugin in the plugin settings, and then a "start logger" menu item will appear in a right click menu when using the terminal. The user is also able to pick the path they would like the logs saved to when turning the plugin on.
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Content reflow when a terminal is resized
If you have long lines of text inside a terminal and then you change the size of the terminal, the text will also automatically update according to the new size.
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Can be driven by a script through DBus
Some activities can be scripted using a tool called remotinator which uses the DBus interface to command the application to perform a limited set of tasks.
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Tilix Config is easy and flexible
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Gnome Terminal
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Good integration with other GNOME-Shell apps
Gnome Terminal integrates well into Gnome Desktop, as well as the rest of the core Gnome Shell apps.
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No background transparency
While this used to be a good option, background transparency has been removed.
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Exceptionally fast
The Gnome Terminal is usually very fast. It boots up very quickly and takes less than a second (averages to 0.25-0.59 seconds) to display files of up to 600 MB.
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Gnome library dependencies
While not an issue if using Gnome, when trying to use this terminal in other desktop environments or window managers there will be a large amount of dependencies tied to the app making for a large install size. For those trying to keep their desktop lean this may be an issue.
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Support for tabs
Gnome Terminal allows for the use of tabs by right clicking in the terminal window and selecting open new tab or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+t by default.
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Font rendering doesn't look good
it seems that everything is fatter per default.
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Supports scrolling
You can scroll up and down in Gnome terminal. And if you wish to do so, you can also hide the scrollbar.
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Heavyweight
To achieve a large amount of speed, Gnome Terminal has to use a relatively large amount of memory to run. It may eat up to 15-30 MB per instance, depending on the task it's doing.
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Solarized colors
Gnome Terminal comes with a solarized colorscheme installed and ready to use.
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No tab names
Since Gnome 3, the feature for manual renaming of tabs was reaped off.
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Content re-flow when window is resized
When using the GNOME Terminal, if you have long lines of text inside it and then you change the window, the text will also automatically update according to the new window size.
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Doesn't support font ligature still in 2019
gnome-terminal uses vte for its terminal emulator, and vte simply doesn't support font ligature (yes, it's 2019). This is what its maintainer thinks about it. He really thinks supporting font ligature breaks terminal's grid, like he doesn't understand a font that's monospace is a monospace no matter if it has ligature or not.
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Notifications upon command completion
This isn't in the current release but in development versions you get notifications when commands are complete. This is great for long-running commands, relieving you from continuously checking to see if your command is done.
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Incomplete vt handling due to using libvte
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Configurable keybindings
Configurable key bindings can be used for copy-paste, sending SIGINT, switching tabs, and so on.
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Restrictive license
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Transparency
We can change the alpha canal and see through the terminal.
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Open Source
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Drop-down support
Drop-down functionality can be added to Gnome Terminal via an extension.
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Clever memory management
Multiple terminals are managed from one gnome-terminal instance that takes up about 45 MB. Adding on other instances (with 10k lines of used buffer), each terminal requires about 16 MB of memory.
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Getting better and better over time
Tilix used to surpass gnome-terminal but right now they are both the best options unless you have special needs.
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GPLv3+
Source repository:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal
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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
Configurable:
Lua based live reloading configuration
GPU Acceleration:
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FireCMD
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Sophisticated auto-completion
FireCMD supports command auto-completion. Once you start typing a command, you can press the tab key to auto-complete it.
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Not free
Although there's a free trial available, FireCDM is not free and costs $29.
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Recursive and persistent aliases
FireCMD allows users to create up to 500 aliases.
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HTML and CSS support makes for greater usability
HTML is a very flexible and user-friendly language for writing web pages, while CSS allows for the content of a HTML document to be separated from the style and layout of that document.
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A free trial is available
A free trial of FireCMD is available for users to try out.
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QTerminal
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Window resize
Resizing the window does not resize the contents, like rxvt-unicode does.
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Font ligatures
QTerminal support font ligatures found in fonts like FiraCode.
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Strange default paste action
When pasting into QTerminal, one has to be careful as it assumes immediate execution.
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Lightweight
Compared to many terminal emulators, QTerminal is lightweight with fewer dependencies than most.
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Fluent Terminal
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Integration for Cmder and Powershell
Supports different shells, such as Cmder's clink and powershell.
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No Scrollbars
Without scrollbar it is very difficult to navigate even the default Microsoft Terminal has a good scrollbar
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Great looks
Support Microsoft Fluent Design's Acrylic effect for a blurred-behind effect on Windows.
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Fast and modern design
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Fast
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Nice design
Great customized terminal but needs lot of other basic features too like scrollbar.
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Fox Term
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Multi-Terminal
Many terminals in one, save-able, restart-able, session.
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Dated
Hasn't been updated for a while, so your Windows will need legacy .NET runtime support. (Windows will automatically detect this and initiate the update, if needed)
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Simple
Minimalist. All you need is to connect to a serial host.
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z/Scope Terminal Emulator
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Supports tabs, making for easier navigation
z/Scope supports tabs and tab-based navigation.
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Not free
z/Scope is not free.
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Affordable
Licenses are permanent. Price starts at $46. First year support is free. Continuing subscription, it's not mandatory to renew maintenance services.
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Host Access
It supports IBM TN3270E / TN3270 emulation, IBM TN5250E, UNIX VT100-420, SSH and secure FTP integration.
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Cross OS
Windows and Web-based editions.
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Windows Terminal
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Official Microsoft product
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Requires latest version of Windows 10
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Is an *actual* terminal emulator--what a Linux user would expect--like xterm
Not a command prompt/processor (i.e. shell) but a host for such applications. ANSI / Virtual Terminal sequences 24-bit Color Pseudoconsole ("ConPTY")
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Cannot have a mix of elevated and non elevated tabs
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Multiple shell support
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Unstable and buggy
Sometimes freezes and/or crashes.
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Open Source under the MIT License
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/
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Configured via (mostly) documented json
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/cascadia/SettingsSchema.md
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Easy and well documented JSON settings
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Slow
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Microsoft is nailing on its features
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Doesn't have feature "Open Context Menu"
Poorly, this perfect terminal doesn't has this feature for Windows version.
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Windows 10/11
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