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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by sva_ »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #76
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…

Remember that this is the guy who said he would personally maintain python 2 because he didn't want to rewrite calibre for python 3 [0]. I try not to knock the guy, given that kitty and calibre in particular are amazing programs, but I still think you've gotta keep that in mind when engaging. FWIW, his conduct on the MobileRead forums where he answers questions from newbies and enhancement requests are far more polit…

> His ire seems to be reserved for fellow programmers

If it works for Linus Torvalds, it might work for him

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by el_memorioso »

I used WezTerm for a while and loved it, but then I discovered it had some strange interactions with other programs that use the GPU or OpenGL. In my case, when running WezTerm, the robotics simulation tool Gazebo Classic [0] would only launch properly 1/3 to 1/2 of the time. The rest of the time the simulation appeared to start, but no display ever came up and the program eventually segfalted. I thought this was a Gazebo problem, since it is a bit touchy, but switching to another GPU-accelerated terminal like Kitty or Alacritty solved the problem. I guess the lesson being, if your GL program is misbehaving when launching from WezTerm, try another terminal to see if that doesn't solve the problem.

[0] https://classic.gazebosim.org/

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by aftbit »

I really _want_ to like WezTerm but the font rendering just looks bad compared to Alacritty. I understand that this is a very personal feeling and plenty of people like the WezTerm way better... but not me.

The author is not interested in trying to fix this issue, which is totally fine, as they point out font rendering is very subjective, but I'm also not willing to use a terminal that looks worse, even though I like many other things about it better.

https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/5331

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by medstrom »

bibstha wrote: post #169
iaresee wrote: post #132

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I'm kitty + tmux and have been for a while now. What kind of problems were you encountering?

I recently moved from Kitty+Tmux to Tmux only setup. I think the maintainer has implemented most of the features in tmux like split panes, switching, changing layouts etc and is probably why says what he says. For me, I've found Kitty quite configurable enough to have everything except the remote server thing. I used this as my guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/KittyTerminal/comments/z2p2sh/ditch...

Do you mean Kitty only setup?

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by [deleted] »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #166
gouggoug wrote: post #109

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> he answers questions from newbies and enhancement requests are far more polite and charitable. His ire seems to be reserved for fellow programmers. Some programmers (like myself) have little patience for people they consider should know better and are wasting their time. These same programmers are far more charitable to newbies because they know newbies are still learning. > Remember that this is the guy who said h…

> I read his "I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself." as "I am perfectly capable of maintaining [calibre running on] python2 myself", which is completely different. That doesn't make sense to me in context. Presumably he was already maintaining calibre on python2 at the time, so what additional information is he adding? It seems more like he was saying "I am perfectly capable of maintaining my own for…

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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by organsnyder »

ssijak wrote: post #114
throwanem wrote: post #107

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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.

That is the first thing I configure in iTerm. To have it slide down like Quake terminal, and hide it from the dock

Yakuake is usually the first app I install on a fresh KDE system.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by drdaeman »

bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #16

Whats not to like of wezterm?? My favorite and often overlooked feature is that wezterm is fully cross os, so if you work like me in Linux, macOS and Windows, then you can just learn wezterm and be done. I even share large parts of my terminal config across os:es.

It is not performing well for me, tends to just freeze for a few seconds when switching tabs after some time. No idea why (large scrollback is my only guess, but I'm not sacrificing that) and how to diagnose this.

I switched to Kitty, and while it has its share of issues, at least it works.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by mk12 »

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

kitty is extremely customizable. That's the main reason I use it.
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