Which terminal emulator do you use?

[Member blur13]

Curious to learn which terminal emulators the lean and mean antiX crowd uses.

I use st (simple terminal) and alacritty.

st is by far the fastest and uses the least memory, only around 4 MiB. It does have some drawbacks. No scrollback buffer, and it crashes at even a hint of a color emoji, so for optimal usage you need to remove all color emoji fonts from the system.

alacritty is supposed to be GPU-accelerated, but I cant notice any speed improvements over st. But it does have scrollback buffer and can handle color emojis. Uses around 40 MiB.

[Member PPC]

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Hi. I stay with the default – roxterm – I tried st, but the lack of drag and drop was too much for me then… When I used Bodhi Linux, for a while, I loved their shiny terminal, filled with nice touches.

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[Member olsztyn]

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blur13 wrote:

Curious to learn which terminal emulators the lean and mean antiX crowd uses.
I use st (simple terminal) and alacritty.

I typically use urxvt. It provides full functionality as ROXterm but is lighter and not cluttered.
I do use ST sometimes too, especially in DWM.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Moderator BobC]

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Roxterm is fine. Its light enough, does copy/paste, and transparency too, if that makes you happy.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Yeah, for antiX, roxterm is as good as anything; other terminal emulators are either very minimal (and not intuitive, so you must know what you are doing). There are other easy to use terminal emulators; most of these bring in far too many additional packages for the default lean antiX environment.

The choices are up to each person nevertheless.

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[Member oops]

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… RoxTerm too, but a newer version: VERSION 3.12.1 stable
https://github.com/realh/roxterm

[Member techore]

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For a light terminal, I use st. I have been exploring kitty. Not light, however, at 100 MB depending on how you launch it and scroll-back history settings.

alacritty. If I was looking for a compromise between st and kitty, I would probably go with alacritty.

I’ve not got anything bad to say about roxterm but I am more familiar with st, alacritty, and kitty.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/overview/

• This reply was modified 5 months ago by techore.

[Moderator BobC]

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oops wrote:

… RoxTerm too, but a newer version: VERSION 3.12.1 stable
https://github.com/realh/roxterm

What are the improvements over the version in the repos?

[Member oops]

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… Not a lot, the antiX version is enough and lighter for a simple terminal … it was mostly to try it.

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