Konsole

“Konsole inspects process metadata on the host via `flatpak-spawn`, which has a high overhead.”

“I have chezmoi apply my konsole settings onto every new machine”

“It is my daily driver and works well on KDE 6.8 for me.”

“Konsole is more than enough for me”

“is showing its age and has a bit of a widget bloat and an unwieldy configuration system”

“Konsole seems to keep up with modern features as well.”

“Konsole is a fantastic and very mature terminal emulator, but it does have some real gaps that reveal its age.”

“I also hate configuring Konsole, most KDE apps for that matter.”

“Konsole is not gpu accelerated and is several orders of magnitude slower”

“the konsole context menu and default toolbar are a mess”

“To me the point of Konsole is that it works well, plus it's already there.”

“clicking a spot to move the cursor only works if you're using Bash”

“Konsole is way faster than any of those on my computer”

“It "just works" and has all the features I need.”

“I don't even use a third party terminal (just konsole).”

“I use konsole and has significantly more user friendly screen to manage settings”

“the default terminal app from KDE (Konsole) renders and keeps Claude Code responsive enough”

“I use Konsole daily and have all the toolbars hidden”

“I think the UI is horrible, perhaps the worst KDE app.”

“seems fine and responsive to me”

“I used Konsole for years and it's great”

“Once they added the split feature, it became pretty damn near perfect.”

“Konsole for its flexibility and feature set while remaining really performant”

“it's based on Konsole, Plasma's default terminal emulator”

“Konsole has had a lot of these features for some time now”

“Konsole does not have a way of changing the layout of tiles”

“It's already been in KDE and konsole for more than 5 years!”

“Prefer my Konsole setup on KDE and I use both interchangeably all day tbh.”

“IMO Konsole does it right, it's a feature that's disabled by default, and there is an explicit warning”

“all their in house actual windowed applications like Konsole and Kate are mediocre at best”

“The giant copy paste buttons, tab bar which wastes a ton of space, are typical of kde apps.”

“Konsole required much configuration to be not way too busy”

“That setup works for me since ages”

“Konsole configuration has many options, but none that I can immediately see to change the default font size”

“I'll happily keep using alacritty, konsole and xterm, thanks.”

“Konsole and KDE stuff in general will let you set Mac-style bindings (with some config effort)”

“Unfortunately Konsole has this feature that each time you switch tabs the maximized window shrinks by a couple of pixels”

“It's very customisable and runs plenty fast.”

“If Konsole suits your needs, there is no reason to move to Ghostty.”

“Pretty nice to see KDE's Konsole rank really high, especially if you take performance/test elapsed time into account.”