Alacrity works well on MacOS also. It gives you enough control that you can send meta (command) properly to readline, emacs, and whatever else is running in the terminal while letting some command chords be handled outside the terminal (e.g., command-tab, copy/paste, rectangle).
Use Alacritty instead of Termite
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Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#12Is there any indication of the energy impact using a GL context to render plain old text? These concepts seem incompatible in the context of a laptop, and who needs GL here when the bottleneck is biological. One of my favourite working modes is shutting down everything and just hacking away in vim, partly for distraction management but primarily because of battery.
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#13When stepping away from KDE to sway, tried diffrent terminal emulators, but especially compared konsole, termite & alacritty. Back then (October 2020) I found alacritty to have really slow startup times on high-end machines (and got confirmation that's it's not my fault on IRC). Even massive Konsole started up faster. It also treats Wayland badly. So I settled with Termite, which I really like so far. It's sad that it's discontinued, but it's a shame that alacritty should be _the_ replacement for it.
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#14This is a beautiful example of FOSS culture at work. In what world would corporate, closed-source software engage in this kind of earnest truth-telling without the propellers of mergers, acquisitions, or takeovers?
Worth noting that the bad behaviour in question they're finally giving up on is from a FOSS project.
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#15This is a beautiful example of FOSS culture at work. In what world would corporate, closed-source software engage in this kind of earnest truth-telling without the propellers of mergers, acquisitions, or takeovers?
I agree, but also in the corporate world there would be incentives for innovation to better compete or finding niche markets. It's not all bad
However, that competition might come in the form of a more effective sales force, rather than a more effective product
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#16Is there any indication of the energy impact using a GL context to render plain old text? These concepts seem incompatible in the context of a laptop, and who needs GL here when the bottleneck is biological. One of my favourite working modes is shutting down everything and just hacking away in vim, partly for distraction management but primarily because of battery.
Everything is a GL context under wayland isn't it?
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#17How about Foot? https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#18I liked termite because of the keyboard based selection mode and the minimal functionality. Wasn't aware that Alacrity supports that now. Alacrity is my choice for Windows, but unfortunately I cannot use it on WSL2, because it needs GLX features, which are not available. I hope I can soon use the new WSL2 graphics support
I didn't know alacrity was supported on Windows. Can it be used in place of putty as well?
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#19I used to use termite, but switched to kitty for ... reasons I can't remember now.
Does alacritty support ligatures yet? I've been using kitty because it does, but then I have issues with tmux in kitty ... I know, I want my cake and eat it
Re: Use Alacritty instead of Termite
#20I used to use termite, but switched to kitty for ... reasons I can't remember now. Does alacritty support ligatures yet? I've been using kitty because it does, but then I have issues with tmux in kitty ... I know, I want my cake and eat it
Lots of things alacritty cannot do-
1) If you scale certain fonts using fontconfig, alacritty would ignore that.
2) No emoji colors, no ligatures (and thus no flags), also emoji size has problems
... and not to mention it's one of the slowest (yes! contrary to what they blowhard they response time to keys is very large) terminals out there.
List is endless, termite had its place, but there is no doubt that there is so much ego in OSS that one solution canot fit all
Personally I'm keeping an eye out for wezterm, it seems all the good things of alacritty without the self-congratulation part