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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by pmarreck »

saurik wrote: post #31
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…

Yeah: the kitty developer is definitely the sort who believes that he not only knows better than everyone else how to use a terminal, but that everyone else's opinions are fundamentally invalid. That his terminal fails to correctly render such stalwarts as the Linux "make menuconfig" UI and there are no settings to fix it as he doesn't believe in settings is, to me, telling. I then find reading his posts on issue tra…

> he doesn't believe in settings

wait... whut? No thanks, I like to customize things

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by aumerle »

pmarreck wrote: post #141
saurik wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah: the kitty developer is definitely the sort who believes that he not only knows better than everyone else how to use a terminal, but that everyone else's opinions are fundamentally invalid. That his terminal fails to correctly render such stalwarts as the Linux "make menuconfig" UI and there are no settings to fix it as he doesn't believe in settings is, to me, telling. I then find reading his posts on issue tra…

> he doesn't believe in settings wait... whut? No thanks, I like to customize things

You shouldn't believe things you read in hacker news comments. saurik is lying, probably because he once requested some feature that the kitty maintainer didnt like and refused with good reasons, which made saurik want to curl up into a ball and cry. To say kitty has no configuration options is the exact opposite of the truth. Proof: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by zamalek »

ishaanbahal wrote: post #36
Terretta wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've heard Wezterm has a multiplexer too, but just haven't tried it. You're in luck, the last half the post is about that.

Did go through it, bookmarked for use, that's how I learned about the command palette, just hard to break the habit of using zellij, that too with tmux mode :D

I migrated from zellij, here's a vaguely similar config to it: https://codeberg.org/jcdickinson/nix/src/branch/main/home/co...

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by adammarples »

lupusreal wrote: post #126
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.

If you use X, you can use tdrop to do this with any window. I have it set up with kitty, pcmanfm, and emacs client.

X?

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by robinsonrc »

roydivision wrote: post #72

I recently changed from Alacritty to WezTerm due to bugs in the former and I don't have any complaints so far. It is part of my daily professional workflow, works well with Tmux, under WSL. Great piece of software.

I went in the other direction and use Zellij for multiplexing. It works well for me, and I’ll be keeping an eye out for the Ghostty public beta to see how that compares. Great to have all these good options.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by robinsonrc »

myst wrote: post #139

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

I was until I started needing things like true colour support and was forced into trying other options. But if you haven’t noticed anything missing or not working with software that you use then Terminal.app is a fine choice

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by vladvasiliu »

adammarples wrote: post #144
lupusreal wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use X, you can use tdrop to do this with any window. I have it set up with kitty, pcmanfm, and emacs client.

X?

X11, the "old" [0] Linux graphics server.

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[0] "old" because there's a new kid in town: wayland.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by eredengrin »

dgacmu wrote: post #121

Ah, rats. It looks nice but to save others a bit of searching, if broadcasting to multiple panes is a requirement for you (something I use often in iterm2), it's not yet supported and not planned for support: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/2658

Wez left the issue open and said "I personally have no plans to implement this any time soon.", so I have to imagine he's open to PRs. He just has other things to spend his own time on.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by pmarreck »

Nice! I've been using Wezterm for a couple years.

I use the Embark color theme, which I don't see represented on the wezterm themes page: https://github.com/dmshvetsov/wezterm-embark-theme

I also like a slowly-blinking block cursor, a specific font, ligatures etc. Feel free to raid my config: https://github.com/pmarreck/dotconfig/blob/yolo/wezterm/wezt...

I love that I can use the same config on macOS and Linux as I use both machines often.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by nebben64 »

terraplura wrote: post #108

Been a long time user of Alacritty but recently switched to WezTerm. Set up was super quick and having graduated control over opacity and blur was brilliant. Also love that it supports Font Ligatures. Btw one gotcha on macOS during setup is that the left Option/Alt key does not emit the usual special character mappings, but the right Option key does. You can configure that too! Cheers Wez!

Thanks for sharing! Just curious, what made you switch from Alacrity? (I was also debating it vs. WezTerm)
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