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Same, I was surprise to see this bit ;-)

Konsole has been my daily terminal emulator since the move from GNOME {2,3} (since the removal of fallback mode which subsequently disabled compiz fusion, also breaking a lot of my long term formed habits) to KDE 4.10 (now latest plasma 5). Cannot complain.

However, there is a new GPU accelerated terminal emulator emerging - alacritty which claims to be the fastest in the business. Looks promising (I've tried it) -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13338592

My issue with Alacritty is that it is attempting to be a GPU-accelerated terminal in the space that urxvt operates in (bare-bones, few configuration options, etc). One of the things I like about iTerm 2 is the ability to configure so much of it (even just small things like having multiple cursor styles to choose from, and configuring cursor blinking).

If terminator supported keyboard shortcut transparency change in the same way iterm2 did I could switch, (not the full window just the background of the terminal). I often have the docs up and want to type and read at the same time on my laptop without flipping back and forth.

I love Iterm2 but Terminator is very much awesome.