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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by pmarreck »

vijucat wrote: post #158
pmarreck wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's correct if it's always or very often your M.O., but if you rarely mess with it? How about if you spend some time fixing any annoyances that have accrued over time thanks to "involuntary unpaid vacation time"? For example, I recently reduced my terminal startup time to 1/3 what it was by putting in some optimizations. I'll be able to benefit from that for basically forever. ... Ah, you develop on Windows? This…

As an aside, I'm surprised how Apple fans think they're the one with the aesthetics advantage when their Lord and Master allowed them to change the color of their menu bar in...2023? :)

That's why I'm a NixOS guy now. Mostly. ;)

The main thing holding me back is the Apple ecosystem integration with my other iOS devices.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by ainka-ainka »

throwanem wrote: post #107
leblancfg wrote: post #10

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 wa…

Does WezTerm support an equivalent of iTerm's "hotkey window"? For those unfamiliar, that's a window tied to a show/hide keybinding which when shown floats above all other windows, making a terminal instantly available everywhere - a feature I could live without, but don't care to. I'd love to switch for all of WezTerm's other features, but without that it's simply a nonstarter for me.

I do it using https://gist.github.com/meowtochondria/8b99b8fbf364eec41ef66... on my Debian based machine running X11. I've bound this script to a key as a global shortcut using OS provided facilities. See the comment on gist if you have a different setup and want to adapt it to your needs. Algo: 1. Find path to wezterm binary by looking at desktop file 2. Use pgrep to get pid of running binary from previous step. 3. If no window is running, launch desktop file using gio 4. If window is running, bring it to front using wmctrl

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by abathur »

myst wrote: post #139

Am I a rare one being happy with Terminal.app?

I'm pretty happy with it.

I try alts when they come up since I might like to use the same thing on macOS and Linux, but I've yet to try one that both has the right features and doesn't feel sluggish.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by tracker1 »

I'll need to look at it again. Mostly been using Tabby lately, which I like aspects of, but it can be sluggish. I really like the new Microsoft Terminal for Windows, but it's Windows only, unfortunately and I mostly use Linux and Mac.

I looked at WezTerm a long while ago, didn't even realize I'd already had it starred. Will try it out again soon. It's just another one of those things, that I prefer to use the same applications (if I can) on all the platforms I use.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

gouggoug wrote: post #109
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember that this is the guy who said he would personally maintain python 2 because he didn't want to rewrite calibre for python 3 [0]. I try not to knock the guy, given that kitty and calibre in particular are amazing programs, but I still think you've gotta keep that in mind when engaging. FWIW, his conduct on the MobileRead forums where he answers questions from newbies and enhancement requests are far more polit…

> he answers questions from newbies and enhancement requests are far more polite and charitable. His ire seems to be reserved for fellow programmers. Some programmers (like myself) have little patience for people they consider should know better and are wasting their time. These same programmers are far more charitable to newbies because they know newbies are still learning. > Remember that this is the guy who said h…

> I read his "I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself." as "I am perfectly capable of maintaining [calibre running on] python2 myself", which is completely different.

That doesn't make sense to me in context. Presumably he was already maintaining calibre on python2 at the time, so what additional information is he adding?

It seems more like he was saying "I am perfectly capable of maintaining my own fork of python2 for however-much-python-I-need to continue developing calibre." Which, granted, is not as grandiose as "I will become the maintainer for the abandoned python2 language for the internet at large to use", but it is still a rather tall order.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by robotmachine »

nop_slide wrote: post #68
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/

This theme is very nice! Any way to get it into JetBrains editors?

Seconded ^

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by DavideNL »

technojamin wrote: post #134
throwanem wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does WezTerm support an equivalent of iTerm's "hotkey window"? For those unfamiliar, that's a window tied to a show/hide keybinding which when shown floats above all other windows, making a terminal instantly available everywhere - a feature I could live without, but don't care to. I'd love to switch for all of WezTerm's other features, but without that it's simply a nonstarter for me.

Not out of the box, but I use Hammerspoon to implement a global hotkey to show WezTerm: https://github.com/jaminthorns/environment/blob/a609e81f3f41... I don't have a keybinding to hide, but you could easily achieve that by inspecting the active window with `hs.window.focusedWindow()`/`hs.window.frontmostWindow()` and making the behavior conditional based on the application: https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window…

Note that this does only the “show/hide’ the window part;

The iTerm2 hotkey window, is a floating window, which for example also works in a space with another Fullscreen window/app opened (without moving to another space.)

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by bibstha »

iaresee wrote: post #132
leblancfg wrote: post #10

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 wa…

I'm kitty + tmux and have been for a while now. What kind of problems were you encountering?

I recently moved from Kitty+Tmux to Tmux only setup. I think the maintainer has implemented most of the features in tmux like split panes, switching, changing layouts etc and is probably why says what he says.

For me, I've found Kitty quite configurable enough to have everything except the remote server thing. I used this as my guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/KittyTerminal/comments/z2p2sh/ditch...

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