alacritty's lack of tabs absolutely killed it for me. They are not open to the idea of adding tabs, either.
True, but tabs are something built into tiling window managers like Sway. If you want a fast terminal with tabs then I'd recommend kitty.
Use Alacritty instead of Termite
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Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#62This is a beautiful example of FOSS culture at work. In what world would corporate, closed-source software engage in this kind of earnest truth-telling without the propellers of mergers, acquisitions, or takeovers?
Worth noting that the bad behaviour in question they're finally giving up on is from a FOSS project.
Which is why many people have left Xorg. Just because it has outlived its course doesn't reflect negatively on the open source project as a whole.
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
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#64Is there any indication of the energy impact using a GL context to render plain old text? These concepts seem incompatible in the context of a laptop, and who needs GL here when the bottleneck is biological. One of my favourite working modes is shutting down everything and just hacking away in vim, partly for distraction management but primarily because of battery.
There is at lease one open issue¹ with the clipboard crate that causes a high amount of wakeups (under Wayland at least). Whatmore, the wakeups scale with the number of terminals open. The project is ruthless about performance[latency] regressions, but not so much about performance[energy] overhead. [¹ https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3108 ]
They seem to care more about throughput than latency.
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#65Alacritty is obsoleted by Foot: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/n6kznh/yes_welcome_... https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
If you get it added to the standard Arch repo then I'll try it out.
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#66> 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.
time agnostic rule #1: people are people
And people form tribes, and tribal allegiance becomes very important to them.
In this case, both tribes (GNOME and Wayland) have a vision of the perfect way for software to work. They have each captured enough weak allegiance/users to prove to themselves that they are right. Therefore, the other side is wrong.
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#67alacritty's lack of tabs absolutely killed it for me. They are not open to the idea of adding tabs, either.
The maintainers would prefer to "do one thing well" and let other programs handle this sort of feature.
You can use tabbed[1] or a multiplexer like tmux, or you can use a different terminal emulator like kitty[2].
For example, instead of launching `alacritty`, you would launch `tabbed -c alacritty --embed`.
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#68Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#69When 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…
I've been using Alacrity/Sway for at least that long, and it's been perfect. Maybe I have a low end machine. How does it misbehave on Wayland?
There does seem to be some machines that Alacritty runs poorly on, but there doesn't seem to be a pattern of hardware vendor/OS or anything. On one of 3 machines I run it on (work MBP, personal laptop on Arch, personal desktop on Arch), I see the slow startups people comment on. I always assumed it was just a mac port issue, but I've seen others comment that it works fine on Mac, or that it doesn't work fine on Linux. It's not directly spec related either, as the work MBP is more powerful than my personal laptop