So, I’m looking for a new terminal, there’s a few glitches with yakuake (not dropping down on main monitor anymore, sometimes when I paste in too much text it gets all buggy) and there’s some new features I want from it I found in tabby (basically, different themes in different tabs to help orient me faster and avoid issues)
Tabby’s shortcut to dock and hide and reappear leads it to disappearing the window, not coming back, and continuing to run several processes. Also, it’s really heavy. (electron based?)
I want something that’s light and usually disappears without remaining on my task manager (system tray is ok) , unrolls and disappears at a single keyboard shortcut, has multiple tabs, and I can choose whatever colour scheme I want per tab.
Ideally, I will have a list of colour schemes , and each tab will choose the next colour scheme to move to.
Also, generic terminal preference discussion, shoutout, etc thread.
Edit: for some reason people think I want themes, which I know all terminals I’ve used support. It’s different themes per tab
Also I don’t care if it does tiling or not. If it does it, sure , whatever, but I don’t use that feature in terminals.
I’m vaguely comfortable in the terminal. I installed a fresh version of [your favorite distro] to do some quick work on a spare PC. The default file manager wouldn’t connect to my NFS share, some weird error.
Instead of tracking down the problem, I just fired up the terminal and mounted it manually. Quicker and easier.
Stuff like that.
But I could never imagine being power user enough to prefer one terminal over another. You guys are discussing features I barely understand let alone have a preference on. I only just recently added sudo !! to my repertoire!
More power to you!
It takes time to need to do more stuff in the terminal. I’m doing some web development so I need access to the terminal to inspect a database, run the server (which needs to stay open and sometimes shows errors) a way to interact with the server ad hoc or do things to the files and whatnot there, and one more for general tasks.
Sometimes I connect to my web server though the terminal; if I end up doing this more, I want these things to be visually distinct to avoid running the wrong commands in the wrong place. This is semi common practice where people colour code things differently between live, test and other environments to avoid deleting tables from live.
As a new/casual user, I wouldn’t be concerned about not using terminal enough or whatever. It’s not an contest. You just might find yourself wanting or needing to do it more as you have more and more specific needs.
The only reason I use Yakuake is because I want to not have to launch a terminal whenever I want to do a small task, and because it builds my self esteem to have it set up where I can pop open a terminal whenever I want to. It also encourages me to use it more and improve my bash skills by using it more.