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

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Post by alexzeitler » Wed, May 22, 2024, 5:09 AM UTC

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

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Post by lionkor » Wed, May 22, 2024, 6:17 AM UTC

Used it, its everything you need most likely.

And it somehow managed to become popular and advertise itself without the "written in Rust" tagline. I like that. Ofc its written in Rust.

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

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Post by _lvbh » Wed, May 22, 2024, 6:17 AM UTC

Alacritty doesn’t do well with modifier keys and a lot of keyboard shortcuts don’t work in neovim by default. I recommend using foot instead.

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

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Post by la_oveja » Wed, May 22, 2024, 6:20 AM UTC

i do prefer kitty[0] if i want a modern terminal emulator

[0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Wed, May 22, 2024, 6:21 AM UTC

_lvbh wrote: post #3

Alacritty doesn’t do well with modifier keys and a lot of keyboard shortcuts don’t work in neovim by default. I recommend using foot instead.

Can you give an example? I've never hit that, but I might not be using it that hard

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

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Post by hkwerf » Wed, May 22, 2024, 6:21 AM UTC

_lvbh wrote: post #3

Alacritty doesn’t do well with modifier keys and a lot of keyboard shortcuts don’t work in neovim by default. I recommend using foot instead.

I've been using both for a while and cannot remember having any issues like this.

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

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Post by eviks » Wed, May 22, 2024, 6:25 AM UTC

lionkor wrote: post #2

Used it, its everything you need most likely. And it somehow managed to become popular and advertise itself without the "written in Rust" tagline. I like that. Ofc its written in Rust.

Ofc there was a tagline. Check the announcement post in the repo's readme, it's your typical "blazing fast Rust"

> Alacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL

https://jwilm.io/blog/announcing-alacritty/

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

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Post by perth » Wed, May 22, 2024, 6:27 AM UTC

This project looks very cool. Worth noting however that it doesn’t have tabs.

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

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Post by asdwar532grf » Wed, May 22, 2024, 6:27 AM UTC

_lvbh wrote: post #3

Alacritty doesn’t do well with modifier keys and a lot of keyboard shortcuts don’t work in neovim by default. I recommend using foot instead.

Never had any issues with alacritty/neovim, but foot is much faster. Sadly no ligature support though: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/57

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

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Post by amne » Wed, May 22, 2024, 6:31 AM UTC

I gave it a shot on windows with wsl2. I hit some weird config gotchas because they switched to toml but didn't think it through too much (not a good sign). Then I just could not get my shortcuts to work with tmux and nevim. I use M+pgup/pgdn for session nav and S-left/right for window nav and instead of trying to break my config to get them to work I just gave up. I didn't see any benefits so went back to Windows Terminal.