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Ask HN: Any New iTerm2 Alternative?

8 points by dmaa ↗ HN
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).

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turtleyacht
> feature overload

XQuartz 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 shortcuts

I think the plain xterm does not have many shortcuts built in, but could be wrong.

stephenr
I've been trying out Core Shell recently. I don't recall what options it has for keyboard remapping.
dmaa
Regardless of remapping, it looks innovative. Will try out, thanks!
viraptor
Kitty is nice. Simple, supports lots of terminal codes, colours, GPU rendering, highly configurable remapping if you want it.
kingkongjaffa
> 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.

pez_dev
I’ve been using Warp [warp.dev] lately and it’s been pretty refreshing so far.
swah
On and off on this. I enjoy the aesthetics and the rate of releases, but in the end some innovation will come into my way - latest example: tab handling. I need the simple, old school completion.
gaws
Available only on Mac. Not open source. Not free.

There are better options.

wryanzimmerman
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
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 :)