I was excited to learn about two new terminal emulator app which seemed to have a lot of cool new features, warp and wave. Then I looked closer and found that both are a no go for me.

Warp is closed source and you need to create an account to use your terminal. Jebus Christus, no, thanks, but no.

Wave is an Electron app. While that’s better than not having a Linux version, I’ve seen how Electron apps behave. They are the ones which hog all memory and get killed by the OS first. So that’s a no from me too.

I guess I keep my Tilix for now.

  • Bell@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    I’d really like one that let me see options for the command I’m typing. Like if I type “dd” it shows me some of the options for the dd command like “if=” or “conv=”. Is there a fancy term like that?

    • gomp@lemmy.ml
      12·
      2 months ago

      That’s not something a terminal emulator should do - it’s a feature that belongs in your shell :)

      • Goun@lemmy.ml
        111·
        2 months ago

        But that isn’t the job of the terminal, but the shell, isn’t it? I don’t know how they’d do that, but it feels like they’d have to assume a lot of stuff. On top of that, if you use multiplexers like tmux or embeded terminals like in emacs, for example, you’d most probably lose some of the features.

        I don’t get how we need anything else than just a terminal that is fast, supports 256 colors (or true color, if you’re feeling fancy,) and changing the font.

        • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Also add sixel support. It is unbelievable that only a few terminals do this really well. Terminal UI libraries also suck and look so damn ugly, with the exception of whatever btop is using - it sucks that the UI library is tightly integrated into the app.