Any New iTerm2 Alternative?

Question

Don't get me wrong, I love iTerm2, but the feature overload is too high for me. The only reason why I use it over the standard terminal are the remapping possibilities (I use emacs in terminal a lot and need to remove many conflicting shortcuts).

kingkongjaffa · Accepted Answer

> feature overloadCan you just not use those feature which you do not need?I say this because iterm2 with zsh and oh-my-zsh is what I have used for years and I barely scratch the surface of the tools or any of the features, but it's just a comfy environment that works fine.

viraptor · Answer

Kitty is nice. Simple, supports lots of terminal codes, colours, GPU rendering, highly configurable remapping if you want it.

turtleyacht · Answer

> feature overloadXQuartz with xterm is one possibility. XQuartz helps with bringing up a GUI from a Docker container. Sure, `xhost +localhost`, but minimalism is only a .pkg install away.> remapping possibilities> remove many conflicting shortcutsI think the plain xterm does not have many shortcuts built in, but could be wrong.

wryanzimmerman · Answer

I sometimes use and like alacritty, and also have kitty fully set up for my use, but have mainly ended up going back to iTerm.
With a slow motion camera I can prove that alacritty is faster / more responsive, and I think I can feel it, but it also has slightly more bugs and uses massively more battery. One funny issue is that I can’t screen share alacritty in zoom.
I use tmux/neovim so I’m in the terminal 100% of the time I’m working.

Raminj95 · Answer

I use tmux/neovim so I basically live in the terminal 100% of the time when working and when playing around with sideprojects. And I find alacritty to be super easy to use and more responsive compared to iterm2 :)

pez_dev · Answer

I&rsquo;ve been using Warp [warp.dev] lately and it&rsquo;s been pretty refreshing so far.

cpach · Answer

I hear some people use Alacritty on Machttps://alacritty.org/

stephenr · Answer

I've been trying out Core Shell recently. I don't recall what options it has for keyboard remapping.

server_man3000 · Answer

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Any New iTerm2 Alternative?

Don't get me wrong, I love iTerm2, but the feature overload is too high for me. The only reason why I use it over the standard terminal are the remapping possibilities (I use emacs in terminal a lot and need to remove many conflicting shortcuts).

> feature overload
Can you just not use those feature which you do not need?
I say this because iterm2 with zsh and oh-my-zsh is what I have used for years and I barely scratch the surface of the tools or any of the features, but it's just a comfy environment that works fine.

Kitty is nice. Simple, supports lots of terminal codes, colours, GPU rendering, highly configurable remapping if you want it.

I use tmux/neovim so I basically live in the terminal 100% of the time when working and when playing around with sideprojects. And I find alacritty to be super easy to use and more responsive compared to iterm2 :)

I’ve been using Warp [warp.dev] lately and it’s been pretty refreshing so far.

I hear some people use Alacritty on Mac
https://alacritty.org/

I've been trying out Core Shell recently. I don't recall what options it has for keyboard remapping.

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