Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux

Re:Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux by rwbaskette on Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:25AM (#9074087)

I have not had luck finding an equal to iTerm2 on Linux. While there are many to choose from, few combine all the features (color support, themes, layouts, configurable hot-keys for navigating panes, etc.) in one package.

The one thing I miss the most is having nearly border-less panes for differing font sizes. To my knowledge, that can't be done on tmux or screen.

I'd welcome any suggestion of a terminal with the features of iTerm2.

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Re:Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux by lorenzfx on Thursday February 19, 2015 @10:02AM (#9074322)

Or give a tiling window manager [0] a try. My favorite is i3 [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager

[1] http://i3wm.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux by neilellis on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:47PM (#9075496)

+1 i3 is pretty darn good. Would be great if it was a little more user friendly though :-)

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Re:Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux by greggyb on Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:06PM (#9075668)

I'm just curious what parts you find not quite user friendly enough?

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Re:Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux by neilellis on Thursday February 19, 2015 @07:05PM (#9078074)

Oh it would be nice to have reminders for keyboard shortcuts, in status bar when you press the meta key etc. Since you're relying on a lot of memorising - that would be a huge asset.

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Re:Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux by yellowapple on Thursday February 19, 2015 @05:03PM (#9077405)

I second this recommendation, though I personally prefer XMonad or bspwm for my own tiling WM needs.

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Re:Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux by ghgr on Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:34AM (#9074136)

Have you tried gnome-terminator?[0]

[0] http://gnometerminator.blogspot.de/p/introduction.html

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