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Alacritty is obsoleted by Foot: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/n6kznh/yes_welcome_... https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
a) use an OS besides Linux (and whichever other unix-likes that have wayland compat now, last I hear FreeBSD had ... some degree of support), and/or
b) don't use wayland. Alacritty even works on Windows!
Does Alacritty still require you to copy terminfo to remote servers in order for backspace to work? I loved Alacritty, but copying terminfo every time gets old pretty quickly.
You can fix this by setting the following values in .config/alacritty/alacritty.yml: env: TERM: xterm-256color Another way is described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Alacritty#Terminal_function...
> GTK and most of the GNOME project are much of the same. Avoid them and don't make the mistake of thinking their libraries are meant for others to use. Choose your dependencies wisely. Sometimes only a crystal ball would have helped but often, a little bit of due dilligence would have prevented lots of upgrade pain down the line.
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Gnome developers actively hate their users and non-gnome developers. This issue takes the cake: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217
If that's your best argument against Gnome it seems like they are doing pretty well. Decorations can be done client-side with a library if needed - there is no reason to push that work to the compositor.
Things like these are why I think I'll never will be using wayland as it just breaks everyone's existing applications and workflows. wlroots and sway developers are doing good work to try to bring wayland and its tools to same level as X11, but then we have these other groups that just actively reject anything that doesn't go along with their "vision". And I speak as someone who wrote one of the first wayland compositors, and one of the first wayland compositor libraries, which code partially still exists in wlroots.
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Gnome has a fairly negative rep now, thanks in part to its repeated spurning of feature requests from developers and users. I remember when the Gnome desktop was exciting; there were frequently new apps to try, things pushing niche workflows that the Gnome team didn't consider. That all stopped with Gnome3.
I know it's fun for people to hate on GNOME but if you actually read the bug reports, the feature was not rejected. The patch was rejected in favor of a different way to implement the feature.
There will always be a reason why this patch isn't acceptable, despite the overall code-quality in gnome projects being... what it is. I'd bet if a Gnome app needed this feature that patch would have been quickly and quietly accepted.
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Gnome developers actively hate their users and non-gnome developers. This issue takes the cake: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217
Gnome is one of those projects that should be considered "free in license only". While the project is free to hack on as you wish for your own purposes, your chances of being able to influence the development of the main project are minuscule. To borrow a term or two, it's developed in the bazaar, but run like the cathedral. Maybe an open-air cathedral. Firefox is another project that I'd put under this label. All th…
That's not been my experience at all. The outrage machine on social media tends to spread around the small handful of patches that do get rejected so they can get angry about it, but they never talk about the other thousands of patches that do get accepted. Go look through all the other MRs on the gitlab if you don't believe me. Yes sometimes patches get rejected, it happens in any open source project.
I used to use termite, but switched to kitty for ... reasons I can't remember now. Does alacritty support ligatures yet? I've been using kitty because it does, but then I have issues with tmux in kitty ... I know, I want my cake and eat it
Lots of things alacritty cannot do- 1) If you scale certain fonts using fontconfig, alacritty would ignore that. 2) No emoji colors, no ligatures (and thus no flags), also emoji size has problems ... and not to mention it's one of the slowest (yes! contrary to what they blowhard they response time to keys is very large) terminals out there. List is endless, termite had its place, but there is no doubt that there is s…
When stepping away from KDE to sway, tried diffrent terminal emulators, but especially compared konsole, termite & alacritty. Back then (October 2020) I found alacritty to have really slow startup times on high-end machines (and got confirmation that's it's not my fault on IRC). Even massive Konsole started up faster. It also treats Wayland badly. So I settled with Termite, which I really like so far. It's sad that i…
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Gnome developers actively hate their users and non-gnome developers. This issue takes the cake: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217
I don't see why you are saying that has something to do with some attitude from GNOME. There are several Wayland compositors that don't implement that feature.
Can you list some that aren't weston or dead projects?
I used to use termite, but switched to kitty for ... reasons I can't remember now. Does alacritty support ligatures yet? I've been using kitty because it does, but then I have issues with tmux in kitty ... I know, I want my cake and eat it
Lots of things alacritty cannot do- 1) If you scale certain fonts using fontconfig, alacritty would ignore that. 2) No emoji colors, no ligatures (and thus no flags), also emoji size has problems ... and not to mention it's one of the slowest (yes! contrary to what they blowhard they response time to keys is very large) terminals out there. List is endless, termite had its place, but there is no doubt that there is s…
This is intriguing to me. You're not the first I've seen complaining about this, so there must be something to it.
But in my case, on a fairly low-end machine, what I type shows up instantaneously[0] on the screen, even when the CPU is busy compiling.
I'm running an i5-6500 with integrated hd 530 graphics and a 4K screen. I use i3 (so X11) and Picom with a bunch of effects.
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[0] I have a mechanical keyboard, and if I push the key all the way down, I hear the sound of the key bottoming out after I see the character on the screen.