There was this comment in another submission today that is worth a read on why some terminals are faster on some tasks and not others https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37623669
Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
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Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#12Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#13I appreciate that their benchmarks are executed in a peak-optimized build. But, it leaves open the question of whether anyone actually enjoys that peak performance, because all the users install it from unoptimized distro packages.
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fo... https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/e5873544... https://salsa.debian.org/birger/foot/-/blob/13017bc992f66cc5...
Very cool. It must be a credit to the developer for contributing an easy-to-use PGO target.
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#14Been using `foot` for a year plus at this point. No issues, works great, very happy!
Same here works well, but I am eyeing others for image support at some point.
So i lokked a bit more and the sixel support seems to be decently good in foot (and i need something that works in tmux)
you can even play doom or videos at 30fps https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/481
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#15Tbh, I never ventured outside of Konsole. Never felt I was missing something or was limited by performance or anything beyond what the stock Konsole offered.
I feel the same...and often, when i feel that, then maybe i'm not the target audience for said tool/app.? (Which is not bad either way, simply that as good as the tool/app. might be, its just not for me.)
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#16Been using `foot` for a year plus at this point. No issues, works great, very happy!
Same here works well, but I am eyeing others for image support at some point.
Foot has sixel[0] support. Is there more robust image support in Kitty and others?
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#17I've been using Foot for a while now, having switched to it from Alacritty. I like it. I don't really require much from my terminal other than for it to "feel" snappy and to have some cosmetic customization, and from my own playing around, it does both well.
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#18Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#19Tbh, I never ventured outside of Konsole. Never felt I was missing something or was limited by performance or anything beyond what the stock Konsole offered.
Konsole is decent if you are running kde, but I'd guess majority of people don't
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#20here's a good read about terminal emulators, including speed benchmarks and discussing security aspects:
https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/
https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/