Ask HN: Any New iTerm2 Alternative?

[dmaa]

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]

> 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.

[viraptor]

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

[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.

[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 :)

[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.

[cpach]

I hear some people use Alacritty on Mac

https://alacritty.org/

[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!

[server_man3000]

Hyper