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Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

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Re: Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

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I gave it a shot on windows with wsl2. I hit some weird config gotchas because they switched to toml but didn't think it through too much (not a good sign). Then I just could not get my shortcuts to work with tmux and nevim. I use M+pgup/pgdn for session nav and S-left/right for window nav and instead of trying to break my config to get them to work I just gave up. I didn't see any benefits so went back to Windows Te…

Had similar issues as well. I use a Nordic layout for my keyboard (which includes åäö). These extra characters were a pain to bind certain key combinations to.

Re: Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

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Alacritty, foot, wezterm, kitty form this block of "nextgen" terminal emulators. I do find them difficult to differentiate. I personally use foot as my daily driver, but that is just because alacritty happened to have some issues with nvidia drivers (bleh). But I chalk that up to nvidia, not alacritty.

Re: Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

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I tried it for a few years a while back on macOS but it somehow felt off, I don't remember why, something to do with mouse selection. I went back to iTerm2 and that's that, you couldn't view images with feh and similar tools in macOS terminals for some reason so I had no reason to stay. Out of interest, why would I want anything faster than iTerm2 anyway? Never felt that my terminal is slow.
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