Please forgive my ignorance: what do these terminal emulators do better than a basic terminal application, such as Terminal.app? My work with terminal is quite basic, I edit a few files, execute a few commands and sometimes cURL something. Terminal.app has some basic colors, has tabs, and works out of box without any visible performance issues for basic usage. What improvements would these emulators bring to my daily life?
Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
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Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
And most of it still works perfectly fine on an iPad Pro, in a completely new browser from the future. Good times!
On safari desktop and mobile, I get: > W A R N I N G! Your browser is not supported by this site.I cannot guarantee that things will work as they should. Consider downloading either Mozilla >=1.4 or Internet Explorer >= 6
Considering Safari only exists for about 15 years, and the site is older than that, I think it does a very reasonable suggestion.
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#133Another GPU-accelerated terminal emulator is alacritty[0]. Although it has a lot less features than kitty and really is only usable with tmux (or GNU screen, whatever), it is more or less perfect for people who want their terminal to do just one thing and that one thing pretty fast. Disclaimer: Haven't tried kitty yet and using alacritty for a nearly a year now. [0] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
Alacritty seems far more popular (partly because it is written in Rust) though it is only some months older. But, beyond being GPU-based, it offers nothing more over other terminals. (Actually it offers less being as slim featurewise as st.) For Kitty you can even ignore GPU rendering and still have some good stuff.
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#134Not affiliated, but recently switched to Kitty from iTerm 2 on OS X on my main at-work MacBook Pro and I’ve been very impressed. It’s snappy, easy to configure and works well with my zsh/tmux setup with a few tweaks. I would love to drop tmux in favor of kitty’s sessions and multiplexing, but old habits die hard, so it will take some time.
What does kitty buy you on top of tmux that is worth locking yourself into a particular terminal?
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#135How do we install the GPU without a terminal?
Software emulated gpu library backend
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#136This is somewhat of an aside, but the fastest terminal emulator I've ever used is rxvt-unicode. I don't even know if it utilizes the GPU (doubt it), but damn is it snappy. Try it out if you're on GNU / Linux.
This nice study goes into nicely thought out detail to compare speed of emulators, I recommend it. Urxvt is not so blazing fast at latency, and it manages great scrolling speed by dropping content. (It's my current emulator of choice though !) https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/
Does it drop it or simply not show it? Will scrolling back through history display the "dropped" content? If so I'm fine with that, it's annoying when you finally finish a task and pipe the results to a file just to find the bottleneck slowing you down was display refreshes.
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#137Another GPU-accelerated terminal emulator is alacritty[0]. Although it has a lot less features than kitty and really is only usable with tmux (or GNU screen, whatever), it is more or less perfect for people who want their terminal to do just one thing and that one thing pretty fast. Disclaimer: Haven't tried kitty yet and using alacritty for a nearly a year now. [0] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
I was pretty impressed when I found alacritty a while ago, but I stopped using it as I soon found out that pretty much any speed gain I got from using the terminal is pretty much negated from having to use tmux in order to have any form of window management..
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#138Please forgive my ignorance: what do these terminal emulators do better than a basic terminal application, such as Terminal.app? My work with terminal is quite basic, I edit a few files, execute a few commands and sometimes cURL something. Terminal.app has some basic colors, has tabs, and works out of box without any visible performance issues for basic usage. What improvements would these emulators bring to my daily…
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#139Two simple speed tests:
time find ~
alacritty takes 8.5 seconds and uses 75% CPU
kitty takes 15 seconds and uses 100% CPU
konsole takes 16 seconds and uses 100% CPU
time for i in {1..2000000}; do echo $i; done
alacritty takes 16 seconds and uses 75% CPU
kitty takes 17 seconds and uses 100% CPU
konsole takes 16 seconds and uses 98% CPU
Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
#140About a year ago I was deciding between Kitty and Alacritty and I chose Kitty because of 2 important features it had over Alacritty: proper underline rendering (Alacritty just draws underscores) and text selection with Shift+Mouse. Kitty also compiles instantly as it's written in plain old C. The author is also very responsive on GitHub and addresses each issue quickly.