iTerm2
iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things. (by gnachman)
kitty
Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal (by kovidgoyal)
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| 13,174 | 17,581 | |
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
iTerm2
Posts with mentions or reviews of iTerm2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-24.
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Best apps for a newbie to not miss ? I am going to use my first ever MBP I need recommendations please to make most of the machine
Maybe a different terminal emulator like iterm2 for one with tons of features or something like kitty or alacritty for a lighter weight terminal.
- For those who are expert at MacOS Terminal
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Colorize zsh Mac Terminal
1. Install iTerm2
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How to Create a Remote Development Environment Using Ubuntu Linux
Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH iTerm2 hyper Apple Terminal (pre installed on OS) Linux Terminal (pre installed on OS) Windows Terminal PuTTY
- Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?
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Make Mac usable for Linux user
macpaste for mouse copy and paste https://github.com/lodestone/macpaste and to have terminal where its own mouse paste can be disabled, iTerm2 https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2
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Reasons to change the default terminal to Warp
Moreover, there are tools were made on top of those to provide more functionalities, and fill some of the gaps, for instance, oh-my-zsh, Prezto, oh-my-fish, and much more. However, the default embedded terminal in macOS is still lacking something. That's why iTerm and other terminal like Hyper. It provides you a set of customization to boost your productivity.
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Master any CLI tool with this one weird trick
I use iTerm2 as my terminal, it is a great alternative to the default macOS terminal and has a lot of features - customization.
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Why Sixel?
Amongst newer 21st century OSS terminal emulators, there has been some work at revisiting better ways to encode raster graphics over telnet. In particular, you might want to look at George Nachman's iTerm2 and Kovid Goyal's Kitty, both of which support Sixel and their own newly-designed custom protocols for raster graphics, among other newfangled terminal features. Wezterm, another recent OSS terminal emulator, also support's Kitty's protocol.
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Switching over from Linux… some questions
It is Unix. Note that if you use Bash, you'll need to install the latest version yourself, Zsh is the default shell these days. Homebrew is a common package manager. And while macOS ships with a terminal app, called Terminal, others can be installed. I prefer iTerm. Good luck and have fun!
kitty
Posts with mentions or reviews of kitty.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-29.
- Difference between the two kitty?
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It has been years, since vim & terminal emulators have existed, Why is there no animations in the terminal. like smooth scrolling, cursor animations?
Here's the story for kitty wrt smooth scrolling: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/1123
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Best apps for a newbie to not miss ? I am going to use my first ever MBP I need recommendations please to make most of the machine
Maybe a different terminal emulator like iterm2 for one with tons of features or something like kitty or alacritty for a lighter weight terminal.
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Some keys behaving incorrectly within VIM on Sway
Not sure what layer you were talking about, but it seems kitty started to send NumLock status with those keys as described here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/5885
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Wayland blows ass and mostly functions as a launcher for x.org processes. Nobody needs, wants or asked for Wayland. It's nobody's fault but the assholes at FreeDesktop
I'll be honest, I'd never looked into any of these terminals in any great detail, but this made me look into Kitty. I hadn't realised what an exceptional source of jerking material it was. The FAQ is excellent.
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Why Sixel?
Amongst newer 21st century OSS terminal emulators, there has been some work at revisiting better ways to encode raster graphics over telnet. In particular, you might want to look at George Nachman's iTerm2 and Kovid Goyal's Kitty, both of which support Sixel and their own newly-designed custom protocols for raster graphics, among other newfangled terminal features. Wezterm, another recent OSS terminal emulator, also support's Kitty's protocol.
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What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
Been using urxvt for many years, this year I replaced it with kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/), will stay probably for as many years as urxvt :)
I enjoy Kitty’s good color support and performance, though it does have a lot of bells and whistles in which you’re not interested:
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Overriding app icons
I'd like to change the icon of kitty to something else but not sure how. I assume there has to be an overlay of some sort involved but my attempts failed.
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Can I get useless_gaps, but with a solid color between?
This may be more of a kitty terminal question.. But the top border is not displaying on my terminal (Kitty https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty) for some reason.. Very strange.. All the other borders work and for other applications it work
What are some alternatives?
When comparing iTerm2 and kitty you can also consider the following projects:
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
WindTerm - A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal.
tmux - tmux source code
wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
noto-color-emoji-font - Color emoji SVGinOT font using Noto emoji, with multiple releases, such as Lollipop and Nougat. Linux/MacOS/Windows
termite - Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.
Tabby - A terminal for a more modern age
i3 - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3.
urxvt-perls - Perl extensions for the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. [Moved to: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty]
Warp - Warp is a blazingly-fast modern Rust based GPU-accelerated terminal built to make you and your team more productive.