Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by desipenguin » Fri, May 24, 2024, 3:21 AM UTC

Sammi wrote: post #121

padthai wrote: post #47

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Foot is Linux only and lightweight, take it as a Wayland version of Xterm with good defaults and almost no emulation options. The rest works in all major OS. Alacrity is all about GPU rendering speed at the cost of everything else (at some point it did not have scrollbars/history). Kitty and Wezterm are packed with features and more difficult to differentiate. They are all good though.

There still are no scrollbars in Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/775 Use Wezterm is you want a modern rust based terminal with basic nice stuff like scrollbars.

Another +1 for Wezterm. I also tried Alacritty in past, but felt it too basic. Kitty was better. TBH, not sure why I left that for Wezterm. But for now, I've settled and have no intention to change.

FWIW I use Wezterm with Zellij

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

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Post by bjoli » Fri, May 24, 2024, 2:16 PM UTC

gorgoiler wrote: post #75

bjoli wrote: post #30

It says to use a multiplexer for tabs and splits, but doesn't that negate some of the performance claims? Tmux and screen are pretty notorious for slowing things down.

Oh that’s very interesting to hear about tmux increasing latency. I’ve not heard this before but now you mention it, it seems obvious. Could you elaborate?

Tmux scans every character at least once.

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

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Post by akx » Sun, May 26, 2024, 8:11 PM UTC

anbotero wrote: post #165

akx wrote: post #104

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iTerm2: cmd+shift+a = select output of last command. I can then cmd+c, open whatever editor I want (or `pbpaste | less` if I want `less`).

It always appears greyed out for me, Hotkey Window and default profile as well. Any idea why might it be? Thanks!

You haven't installed the shell integration, likely. https://iterm2.com/documentation-shell-integration.html

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

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Post by satiated_grue » Tue, May 28, 2024, 5:44 PM UTC

I don't understand why more of SecureCRT's features don't get implemented into FOSS terminal emulators.

If nothing else, just being able to have clickable buttons that I can configure to paste text is IMMENSELY useful. Combine a few good click-to-paste-string buttons with a bash for loop and ssh, and you're a long way to a quick and dirty Ansible replacement for those multi-system tasks.