Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by alexpls » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:02 PM UTC

Okay, I Like WezTerm
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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by sidmitra » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:27 PM UTC

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/colorschemes/

^ There's a host of built-in color schemes.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by enricozb » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:30 PM UTC

One thing I was looking for just yesterday was a way to dump my terminal's (alacrity) scrollback - escape sequences and all - to stdout. I wanted to pipe it to my text editor to search. Alacrity doesn't seem to have this unfortunately, but wezterm does with get-text.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by gtirloni » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:32 PM UTC

The main feature for me is splitting panes. I used to that in tilix and got western working exactly the same (can't stand tmux , sorry).

The Lua configuration is very intuitive as well.

I do get some indirect crashes when Xwayland crashes, which is rare. I had to disable Wayland support in wezterm because the window decorations aren't great yet.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by sodapopcan » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:35 PM UTC

Nice write up, may try out WezTerm though I only just recently switched to Kitty and I don't like hopping around too often. Correction related to Kitty, though. It does not use either YAML or TOML, it has its own simple config DSL and is otherwise fully scriptable via Python.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by replete » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:35 PM UTC

iTerm's quake-style visor mode bound to a hotkey is too good to give up...

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by rdtsc » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:36 PM UTC

I like it too, and have switched from iTerm2 to WezTerm recently. I tried some others, but WezTerm has window splitting which I use quite a bit so settled on it. Lua config is nice, although I am a minimal config kind of a person, so only have a few settings in there.

Yeah, iTerm2 has a lot of other fancy features, but I just rarely or never used them, so don't really feel like I miss anything.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by abhinavk » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:36 PM UTC

gtirloni wrote: post #4

The main feature for me is splitting panes. I used to that in tilix and got western working exactly the same (can't stand tmux , sorry). The Lua configuration is very intuitive as well. I do get some indirect crashes when Xwayland crashes, which is rare. I had to disable Wayland support in wezterm because the window decorations aren't great yet.

Same. Panes and tabs are must in a modern terminal emulator. I like tmux but not on my workstation.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by throwaway1194 » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:37 PM UTC

Try it on Asahi next.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by leblancfg » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:39 PM UTC

Recently switched to WezTerm and I'm very happy. Was using kitty before that – loved the set up and simplicity coming from iTerm2. WezTerm is leaps and bounds better in terms of what comes out-of-the-box. My terminal config is short enough to sit all in one screen on my editor. After that, the terminal just... gets out of the way and I don't need to think about it.

But the straw that broke my back with using kitty was, I'd end up encountering issues or trying to recreate some of iTerm2's features, only to end up time and again on kitty's maintainer's terse and dismissive comments.

e.g. IIRC his answer to "How do I set up tmux with kitty?" was something like "Don't, tmux is dumb" and closing it. Eventually I gave up.