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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by progbits »

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.

My main pain point switching between work macbook and personal linux machines is the shortcuts. The macos configuration options are limited and require various hacks, and while I could configure things on linux to match I really don't like the macos shortcuts. So I end up with a weird mix and each time I switch keep pressing the wrong keys all the time...

Anyone found a good setup that works for them?

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by gaws »

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…

> "How do I set up tmux with kitty?"

What problems were you encountering? It's not hard to run tmux (and use all the keybindings with it) in kitty.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by Cyphus »

evandrofisico wrote: post #153
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The one thing I don't like about WezTerm, at least the reason why I stopped using it, is related to how it handles copying wrapped lines into the clipboard. It might just be me, and how I use tmux, but I found that when copying a line that gets wrapped, it includes a newline in the copied text. Very annoying, and I think it has to do with the interaction between WezTerm and tmux. I don't have enough evidence to creat…

It's not tmux specific, i have had the same issue and for me, it was a showstopper.

I’ve yet to try WezTerm myself, but this single issue would make me switch back to Alacritty.

I did some searching and it looks like the issue might be fixed in latest nightly. See https://github.com/wez/wezterm/pull/5396

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by hughesjj »

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.

Also it's well tested on all three. One look at wez' repo vs the rest in terms of GitHub actions, issues, and documentation was all the convincing I needed back in like 2019. Haven't turned back since. Heck it even supports tabbing out of the box!

It's the first terminal to truly replace urxvt for me in terms of support and speed. Before I was running termite and kept urxvt as a backup for some odd situations where termite got buggy.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by hughesjj »

aftbit wrote: post #173

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…

Oh man, fonts are fun. Ironically I moved off of alacrity and on to wezterm for font rendering reasons (p10k+patched nerd fonts), but that was pre pandemic

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by hughesjj »

abhinavk wrote: post #96
FL33TW00D wrote: post #40

WezTerm is just so much faster than iTerm2, wish I had switched sooner! Video demonstrating the speedup: https://x.com/fleetwood___/status/1807772624518316495

Is it better in typing latency though?

..you have noticable latency when you type? I'm genuinely sorry, that would infuriate me.

Personally I don't notice any typing latency in wezterm. I have p10k as a zsh theme and not really any 'plugins' beyond git for the terminal and use neovim+ also pretty much just got and CoC for an editor. I don't notice any latency when typing and, while not instant, still sub 200ms startup latency.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by taejavu »

aftbit wrote: post #173

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…

Oh wow I was expecting it to be slightly worse, like the subpixel rendering wasn’t quite right. But that is _bad_, to the extent it looks like a totally different font. Dealbreaker.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by E39M5S62 »

kelsey98765431 wrote: post #54

I will literally switch OS to anything that can implement iTerm2's tmux integration.

I wrote https://github.com/zdykstra/tmuxc as an alternative implementation of iTerm2's tmux integration. It's terminal agnostic; it just runs a command for each terminal. Depending on the terminal you use, you could probably make it spawn each tmux pane into a dedicated tab.

It's very much designed and built for my specific needs on my specific desktop environments, so there's no promises that it'll work for you well ... or at all.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by taejavu »

hughesjj wrote: post #195
aftbit wrote: post #173

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…

Oh man, fonts are fun. Ironically I moved off of alacrity and on to wezterm for font rendering reasons (p10k+patched nerd fonts), but that was pre pandemic

I’m using patched nerd fonts seemingly without issue on alacritty, were your problems specifically with p10k?

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by iamnotarobotman »

vladstudio wrote: post #13

Upvote! I tried Mac Terminal, iTerm2, Kitty, Warp, etc etc, and settled with WezTerm. Easy to configure, fast, looks nice. I created a theme for it too: https://tiniri.vlad.studio/

Also tried these terminals as well but stuck with Wezterm in the end and its one of my favourites.

I happened to have stumbled upon here to compare those terminals on this site: https://terminaltrove.com/terminals/

Looks pretty useful to me or anyone else that wants to compare terminals.

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