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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by hypnotist »

maztaim wrote: post #14

I'm a long time tmux fan, but I've been dealing with odd issues related to mouse actions. This is somewhere in alacritty, *vim or tmux. So I futzed with all of them, tried different terminals, all while telling myself it couldn't be tmux. So I just ignored it for over a year. I finally went back and gave wezterm a serious try just a few weeks ago and I am very happy to have switched. The mouse issues I was seeing go…

I use tmux daily. tried to like wezterm but issues with clipboard and resizing made look for another option. Very happy with Tilix now. https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

maybe less fancy/modern but absolutely rock solid every time.

environment: fedora/wayland/gnome

just throwing this out if anyone wants to test an alternative it out.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by eviks »

> My favourite WezTerm feature is its use of Lua for defining config.

That's indeed one of its best features (despite the warts of the language) as you're not as limited in what you can do vs. the data serialization alternative

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by pivo »

vladstudio wrote: post #13

Upvote! I tried Mac Terminal, iTerm2, Kitty, Warp, etc etc, and settled with WezTerm. Easy to configure, fast, looks nice. I created a theme for it too: https://tiniri.vlad.studio/

I like your light Vlad theme, installed! Thank you!

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by replete »

lkuty wrote: post #48
replete wrote: post #6

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

"quake-style visor mode" what is that feature? I am currently using iTerm2.

In Quake, the video game, a console would slide down from the top of the screen when you pressed tilde. Combined with splitting terminals its incredibly convenient to have 4 or 5 terminals toggle on a hotkey

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by dmd »

The one thing that keeps me on iTerm2 is Edit->Selection Respects Soft Boundaries.

"When enabled, vertical lines of pipe characters | will be interpreted as pane dividers (as in vim or emacs) and selection will wrap at them."

(For me, it's selecting text in irc.)

https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/596

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by replete »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #35
replete wrote: post #6

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

Often you hear it should be the desktop job to do this, but given most of them don't, it's moot.

I wish I could bind applications to slide out from left and right, I use slidepad on Mac which is a slide out web browser, and TotalFinder which has a visor feature for the bottom. Little things like this keep me on Mac to be honest

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by rekoil »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #35
replete wrote: post #6

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

Often you hear it should be the desktop job to do this, but given most of them don't, it's moot.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I want the feature.

I have it in iTerm, and I don't in WezTerm.

We can blame Apple if we want, but they are not going to implement this feature for us.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by replete »

rdtsc wrote: post #7

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.

ITerm has window splitting btw
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