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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Skullgrid@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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.

https://apps.kde.org/yakuake/

https://tabby.sh/

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.

EDit 2 : Somehow I got multi tab profiles to work in Yakuake and quake like dropdowns to work (to the same degree) in tabby. I am the stupidest dev ever.

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[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I used a few terminal apps in the past. My current one is "Konsole" from the KDE project. It is quiet feature rich, has support for tabs and color schemes. It even supports split views, where multiple "terminals" are in one window and stay together. What I also find useful is, it has a right mouseclick menu option to open current directory in my file manager.

But it does not have a builtin functionality to "hide". For KDE there is an extension (called Kwin Scripts) to turn any terminal app you want to into a quake or yakuake like drop down: Quakified Terminal But that is for KDE only off course. Edit: I just learned this Quakified Terminal addon is quite new and got its first release version 4 hours ago as of writing. Lol. That's a coincidence.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

Yakuake is built with all the same components as and shares configuration with konsole. It's specifically quake mode konsole

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