Finally got a few things sorted. Konsole starts oh-my-fish, which starts tmux. Learning basic tmux commands is good. Then use Kakoune in place of vim for basic editing. Need to brush up on all command options. Also, love it that oh-my-fish has a theme named after Isao Tomita! https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/05/08/music/isao-tomita-japanese-pioneer-of-synthesizer-music-dies-at-84/
another follow-up. Dropped tmux, now using Tilix to handle Quake-drop-down and easy window splitting. Inside it the shell is now good old zsh. Oh-my-zsh and -fish are ideas that sound great, but somehow ended up *more* complicated. So my prompt is pared down to mainly two items and some nice colors. I'm good.