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

  • GolfNovemberUniform
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    4 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·
      4 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
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          4 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"