Better terminal for Ubuntu?

GNOME Terminal has the above functionalities.

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 - https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda

Guake

GTK+ popup terminal. Great multi-monitor support. - https://github.com/Guake/guake

Check out Yakuake for a Qt/KDE alternative.

Terminology

Feature rich terminal using the EFL toolkit. https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology

WebUpd8 article about Terminology

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

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

As I said here and here, 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 shortcuts with Shift+F1, this excellent screencast or this great cheat-sheet.

• 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 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 (steroids for zsh):

  sudo apt install curl && sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
  

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

  • Plugins I like:
    • Productivity: Z colored-man-pages command-not-found extract zsh-history-substring-search pass taskwarrior web-search.
    • Build tools: docker git github
  • Themes I like: agnoster, awesomepanda, blinks, gallois.

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

See also

• Starship: The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
• CLI improved: Better alternatives to common CLI programs.