From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love

Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by chaosite on Sunday August 25, 2019 @07:40AM (#20792411)

I use iTerm2 when I'm on MacOS, but I basically use it like I use a Linux terminal. I just don't need so many features from the terminal itself... I do need Unicode, with RTL, and colors, and a nice scrollback buffer.

For example, I don't use tabs in the terminal. I usually open a new window and use the WM from outside the terminal, or use tmux inside the terminal. Tabs in the terminal itself are not that useful in my workflow.

My current favorite Linux terminal is kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/), and before that I used rxvt-unicode.

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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by theobeers on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:07AM (#20792503)

Wait, you use iTerm2 on macOS, but you need RTL support? Is there a way of making that work? I’ve long wanted to switch to iTerm2, but its treatment of Arabic script is so janky, I just can’t do it. I’m still using the default Terminal app as a result.

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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by severine on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:07PM (#20795918)

There's a proposed patch in the bug tracker: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/1611#note_10740636...

Maybe you can give it a try.

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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by theobeers on Saturday August 31, 2019 @05:59PM (#20849050)

Thanks, I’ll check that out!

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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by chaosite on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:30AM (#20793495)

I don't have a solution for you, sorry... I need RTL on Linux, on macos I just avoid it.

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