i do prefer kitty[0] if i want a modern terminal emulator [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty
Not to be confused with KiTTY, the (seemingly abandoned) Windows SSH client based on PuTTY.
Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator
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#32i do prefer kitty[0] if i want a modern terminal emulator [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty
Me too. Nothing beats the "CTRL + SHIFT + G" option (open last output in less); no other terminal has it.
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#33'terminator' anyone?
Loved that one! At least until I discovered tmux and then later on tiled window managers.
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#34Modern terminal emulators not being compatible with the TERM environment variable seems insane to me.
Yes, it can be unreliable at first, when your software is new. This is expected, and it changes when people start using your software.
But if you don't implement compatibility with this env variable, then you are the reason it will not be reliable in any point in the future.
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#36Alacritty, 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.
Ass I use Offpunk to surf the web and Chafa to display picture, my main concern is displaying images using the sixel protocol (or, in the case of kitty, its own protocol).
Last time I tried, Alacritty didn’t support sixel (while even xterm supports it)
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#37Alacritty is cool and deserves the attention but I think wezterm totally underrated and does not get enough.
Why? Did you try both and what did you think?
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#38Been using alacritty for few years but moved to wezterm recently.
Why did you move?
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#39I 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.
Input and rendering latency are much better in Alacritty than iTerm. If you spend a lot of time editing large files in Vim it's certainly noticeable.
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#40I've been using Konsole and I only relatively recently found out how powerful its tab/split management is. You can drag and drop tabs between different windows, and you can drag and drop panes between different tabs to create splits, which also works even between tabs in different windows.