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).
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.