Better terminal for Ubuntu?

Please suggest a terminal application for Ubuntu desktop which meets the following requirements:

1. Paste via Right Mouse Click (without showing the context menu)
2. Copy via Mouse selection.
3. Solarized color scheme.

With current one "GNOME Terminal v3.6.0" it is not possible.
Or suggest a way to improve Gnome Terminal.

P.S. Why I dislike the "selection buffer" behavior. For example, I have in a text editor the word "command" and in terminal window command ls -la and I want to replace that word in Text Editor onto the command from terminal.

The selection buffer is not suitable in that case because when you will select "command" in the text editor to replace it you will have "command" in "selection buffer". So you will paste "command" instead of "command" :). You could only select ls -la and paste it after "command" via Middle Mouse Click and remove "command" after it. Too many clicks.

That is why I want to use "Clipboard" for that instead of "selection buffer".

Select with mouse -> Right Mouse Click -> Select in Context Menu Copy -> Left Mouse Click on that menu item - also too much clicks.

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6 Answers

GNOME Terminal has the above functionalities.

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In case you didn't know, in most terminal emulators:

• Copy text: Ctrl + Shift + c
• Past text: Ctrl + Shift + v

Have a look at these great alternatives

Tilda

Simple, GTK+ pop-up terminal -

Guake

GTK+ popup terminal. Great multi-monitor support. -

Check out Yakuake for a Qt/KDE alternative.

Terminology

Feature rich terminal using the EFL toolkit.

WebUpd8 article about Terminology

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There is one more terminal application you can install & the includes with many features . It's named as terminator.

you can install it with

sudo apt-get install terminator

in your terminal with CTRL+ALT+T

Guake is a GREAT emulator. You can install it with:

sudo apt-get install guake

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Guake + Byobu with tmux [+ zsh + oh-my-zsh + themes + plugins]

As I said ^{1 2 3}, I'm a happy user of Guake with Byobu inside it, which by default use tmux (better than screen).

1. Install and enable: sudo apt install guake byobu && byobu-enable

2. Add it to available shells: which byobu | sudo tee -a /etc/shells.

3. On Guake preferences (guake-prefs) choose Byobu as the default interpreter:

   Or dconf write /apps/guake/general/default-shell "'/usr/bin/byobu'"

4. Uncheck "Show tab bar", since you will use Byobu for that:

   Or dconf write /apps/guake/general/window-tabbar false

Other suggestions

• Learn byobu's shortcuts with Shift + F1, this excellent screencast or this great cheat-sheet. Some other of Guake are useful too, like Ctrl + Shift + Up/Down to adjust transparency.

• Learn available byobu terminal commands with apropos byobu

  • By default, byobu uses tmux as backend (you can use tmux shortcuts!). If you hate yourself, change it with byobu-select-backend.

• To use fn keys on Midnight Commander, use Alt + Nº or Shift + F12 to disable byobu F-keys.

• If a shortcut doesn't work, try disabling Guake ones that might interfere (in my case was Ctrl + F2 for vertical split):

  Or dconf write /apps/guake/keybindings/local/switch-tab2 "'disabled'"

• I changed the local byobu/tmux escape sequence (F9) to Ctrl + h so it doesn't interfere with tmux on a remote server.

Issue with F12 to toggle visibility on Wayland? Add a shortcut to --toggle-visibility.

zsh + oh-my-zsh + themes + plugins

Just that would be total happiness, but you can also:

• Install zsh (sudo apt install zsh) and switch shell from bash on Byobu, and/or chsh -s $(which zsh) (making ZSH the Default Shell).

• Even more? Install oh-my-zsh ("plugin" manager, steroids for zsh; others are antigen, zplug and zim):

  sudo apt install curl && sh -c "$(curl -fsSL )"

• zsh with oh-my-zsh becomes very powerful and beautiful with plugins and themes.

  • Plugins I like (check the awesome list):
    • Productivity: Z colored-man-pages command-not-found extract zsh-history-substring-search pass taskwarrior web-search.
      safe-paste (bracketed paste mode, for safety) is enabled by default.
    • Build tools: docker git github
  • Themes/prompts I like: agnoster, awesomepanda, blinks, gallois and spaceship.

(in below screenshot I wasn't using zsh yet)

See also

• Starship: The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!.
• Maybe Tilix (~5k) full-screen Quake mode could be an alternative. kitty (~14k) and alacritty (~38k)won't add drop-down support (kitty don't even like multiplexers). tdrop or this GNOME extension could be a workaround.
• CLI improved: Better alternatives to common CLI programs.
• Other tools
  • Navi: An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
  • cheat / tldr: allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line / Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

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In any circumstance, I would suggest Simple Terminal (completely customizable look. Cozy and good-looking.) and I3WM. I3WM is cozy, but you must know what to look for. I3 is a dual-boot. It is a window manager that enhances performance and accessibility of you Linux distribution. Ubuntu 18.04 has the files for it pre-downloaded. To install it,sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install i3. If this does not work, try

$ /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper download-file keyring.deb SHA256:460e8c7f67a6ae7c3996cc8a5915548fe2fee9637b1653353ec62b954978d844
$ sudo apt install ./keyring.deb
$ sudo echo 'deb bionic main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/i3-autobuild.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install i3

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Now for Simple Terminal (ST)

You can download the files for ST from . To install: click on the Archive Manager. Choose the ST file that you have downloaded. Now click unpack. Then, go to your terminal (the GNOME one.) and CD to it with cd /home/YOURUSERNAME/Desktp/st-0.8.2. Then, install it with xdg-open INSTALL. Fianlly,

./configure
make
sudo make && make install

For Copy and paste you can do it even without a mouse to do this:

• Copy: ctrl + shift + c
• Paste: ctrl + shift + v

And I recommend you to use terminator and then install "Oh my zsh" on it it will make your terminal better and beautiful and with installing packages on it, it'll give you nice features like auto-completion and... for downloading terminator :

sudo apt install terminator

and for installing zsh :

sudo apt-get install zsh

Build from source for newer versions: (Firstly, download build-zsh.sh)

chmod +x build-zsh.sh
./build-zsh.sh

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