I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

  • Elsie
    2·
    9 months ago

    What stability issues have you encountered?

    • GolfNovemberUniform
      2·
      9 months ago

      I can’t remember all of them but now I have a weird issue that when I open Alacritty there’s some loading going on in the background for quite a few seconds which I can even see on the cursor (I think it’s “xdg” that’s loading) and even reinstalling the system didn’t help

      • ElsieEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Oh I think I know what you mean. Did you try setting your shell to something like sh instead of bash or zsh and see if it was a shell startup issue?

          • ElsieEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            And your default shell is a POSIX compliant shell, usually dash or ash, so that’s what I mean by sh. You can set it in ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml with:

            [shell]
program = "/bin/sh"