Not on par with iTerm2 in terms of feature set, but a very solid choice for a daily driver.
Tilixįantastic and polished terminal emulator, been my daily driver for a while now. It's a newer project but this may be the iTerm2 killer. If you're a ricer, this is the terminal emulator for you. The only other thing I want is a hotkey dropdown terminal, not the end of the world. One feature I miss is profiles, but you can always have multiple config files (author made the interesting choice of using Lua rather than ini/toml/yaml/json for the config file).
Has GPU acceleration, built in multiplexer (tabs and splits), ligature support, built in imgcat support, background images, transparency, shell integration, almost everything one could want. My current picks for my favorite Linux iTerm2 replacements are, in no particular order: Wezterm If that means anything to anyone.While I in general prefer GTK applications in terminal emulators the reigning champ Qt is being overtaken not by them but by projects eschewing traditional GUI toolkits entirely! Much as I'd love to love them, Red Ryder/White Knight were lousy at VT100 emulation. If an emulator does do them, it's a sign that the developers were really trying and probably knew their stuff. An emulator that doesn't do them is not aspiring to be a high-fidelity DEC emulator. The quick test is to try double high/double wide characters. Many programs that claimed VT100 emulation were quite poor at it, particular issues involving commands that affected the VT100's internal state. Versaterm was not a flawless VT100 substitute, but it was very good at everything it did, and it did a lot. White Pine Software's Mac240 was a very faithful VT240 emulator and was quite good for graphics. It was by far the best VT100 emulator of any kind, on any platform, I ever evaluated. It worked with everything, and in particular supported double high/double wide characters, everything about keypads. Apple's own MacTerminal had the most complete, accurate, and lovingly faithful VT100 emulation of anything I ever tested. I looked into this very carefully back circa 1985 to 1989, because I was in the computer unit of a research institution that was heavily into Digital gear, had databases and so forth that exploited Digital terminals, and had standardized on Macs for personal computers. Some BBS installs have a web front end leveraging Java, which work quite well. Here is a link to a page that talks about the game in detail, and has some links to where you can telnet to, and play it. However, I thought it was worth mentioning.įor those of you who scoff at playing some door games on the BBS, I suggest you try Usurper. This may be related to the fonts yet again. Secondly, I write messages in some of the games and apparently the terminal puts in some bogus characters here and there. There is a check box in the preferences to change that. First, I noticed that the backspace doesn't work automatically under the terminal when connecting to telnet sessions. There are a couple of other things I'd like to bring up. j/k.Īnyhow, I've encountered the exact same problem, and our friend who posted the fonts on his. Just when I thought I was the only one who checked the boards, I find out there are two.
Download page, look under "Unix source" or something like that.
I've always found it to be an excelent program in the Windows world, and they have source for a Unix version which should work on OS X (this is based on the the Unix underpinnings, not anything written anywhere I saw). It is from '02 and mentions that the default shell on OS X is csh which (IIRC) means it's talking about 10.1 or 10.2 (since it was changed to bash in 10.3, right?).
I don't know where Mac software likes to hide ). If you dig deeper or try harder, you might have more success. A quick Google search didn't turn up much, here are the only two things I found. I don't use OS X (although I intend to soon when I buy a new PC), so I can't offer much.