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I use urxvtd and LOVE it. It's blissfully fast with a smaller memory footprint than anything else I've tried. edit: I should have mentioned, having the minimal overhead and most responsive terminal is a "tier 1" priority for me. Urxvtd is the fastest, and lightest weight terminal period. Either that, or something has changed since I spent a long time picking it.
Tmux is a BSD project. On NetBSD, it replaced window(1), which was quite basic and did not have GNU screen or tmux bells and whistles. Thus, to avoid such features, one could use window:
https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/window-20120215....
Linux users can use pkgsrc to compile it.
The expression "doesn't try to reinvent" may suggest that the desired alternative needs to have been written after tmux, not before. If so, then window will not qualify. It dates back to the 1990s, at least.
Footnote - I admire the minimalism sought here. I consider myself somewhat of a minimalist and the size of tmux has never bothered me. Looking at the source, it is relatively easy to remove features. I have not used a mouse on computers I own for over 20 years. There are many tmux features I do not use. Still, I have not felt the urge to remove them. I use a statically-linked tmux with a few customisations that weighs in at 1.2M. That is smaller than the statically-linked text-only browser I use which comes in at 1.3M. But perhaps I will try to trim down tmux as an experiment if these unused features are in fact taking up significant space.
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Alacritty is simple and fast[0] (it does have mouse support, but no tabs, sessions, or startup scripts as far as I know. Configuration is all via config file.). Is that the kind of thing that you were looking for? [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Doesn't it feel sketchy to run a terminal that isn't even packaged by Debian? I run a few non-packaged things, but I don't want my terminal, or shell, or kernel to be "some code from a some person on github".
In addition, at some point I had a look, and the former terminal I used to use (termite[0]) deprecated itself in favour of alacritty as well so I can't even switch back (I mean I could, but it's now unmaintained.)
Alacritty is simple and fast[0] (it does have mouse support, but no tabs, sessions, or startup scripts as far as I know. Configuration is all via config file.). Is that the kind of thing that you were looking for? [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
OP mentioned good colour support, which alacritty does not have.
What's wrong with the default in whatever distro you're using?
- xterm
- urxvt
- sakura
- terminator
Alacritty is simple and fast[0] (it does have mouse support, but no tabs, sessions, or startup scripts as far as I know. Configuration is all via config file.). Is that the kind of thing that you were looking for? [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Doesn't it feel sketchy to run a terminal that isn't even packaged by Debian? I run a few non-packaged things, but I don't want my terminal, or shell, or kernel to be "some code from a some person on github".
As you got systemd and non systemd distros, Debian is in this a distro w/o alacrity.