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Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use?
An anonymous reader writes: Although I spend a considerable amount of my time at work using shell commands and other text-based applications, I've never really given much thought to what terminal emulator I use. A recent article over on Opensource.com rounded up their picks for their seven favorite terminals, but I'm still unsure if it really matters which one I pick. Do you have a favorite terminal emulator, and if so, what makes it your favorite? I'm interested in hearing about that "one killer feature" that really sold you on your choice.
All things being equal, I prefer KDE's Konsole. It has all the features I need or want (tabs, profiles, easy customization) and fits well in the KDE environment.
If I'm using a simple window manager, I go for rxvt because it's lightweight and still hits most of the feature list.
What I actually use the most is Putty thanks to the fact that I'm at work and Windows doesn't include a sane set of utilities.
The hall of shame award goes to Apple's Terminal.app. Horrible handling of the bash key shortcuts.
Alex, I'll take keybindings not used by Emacs for $400....
ConEmu is a godsend. The configuration options are kind of intricate, but it's awesome to have a cmd/powershell window that acts like every other GUI terminal emulator (like putty) has since forever.
It runs portable, so if I do a consulting gig that involves a metric assload of powershell I can run ConEmu on the client systems without doing an install and just blow it away when I'm done.
I'm kind of puzzled at why when MS came out with PowerShell they stuck to the same crappy console window that cmd.exe used. You'd have thought they would have gained a lot more adoption momentum if there was a gee-whiz new terminal window that came with it.
I use JuiceSSH on my phone, which is amazingly useful more often than it should be necessary. It falls fairly low on that link, for some reason, so maybe I should check the others out.
puTTY on Windows.
Otherwise I'm connected directly to a linux box and just SSH out from a native command line. I don't tend to boot into X unless really necessary, and then I'm normally just stuck with xterm until I can get out of it.
And I don't know when the last time I had to terminal from an apple product is, so I don't even know any more for that one.