Why do people mod their terminal prompt to display the current date/time?
It feels like one of these "ricer" things like opening 9 terminals just to run cmatrix and screenfetch.
Okay, I Like WezTerm
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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm
#252Recently 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 is WezTerm compared to iTerm2, since you’ve used both?
I’ve tried Kitty a few times, since it has a few features I miss in iTerm2 (e.g. the “i3-gaps” aesthetics if you set the right flags, a plaintext config that is easier to sync, and its graphics and keyboard protocols have a wider ecosystem than iTerm2’s comparable features, and the “layout” feature).
But… I generally find that iTerm2 “just works” and requires little fiddling to get all the everyday stuff to work as I want, but I’ve been down many rabbit holes with my Kitty config. For now I’ve therefore stuck with iTerm2, but imagine that a well-configured Kitty might be nicer.
Is WezTerm a good middle ground?
Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm
#253Earlier 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.
https://github.com/noctuid/tdrop is really rather interesting.
Thank you.
Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm
#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why I'm a NixOS guy now. Mostly. ;) The main thing holding me back is the Apple ecosystem integration with my other iOS devices.
That's hardcore. I admire people who work on Linux (I just use WSL 2 Ubuntu on Windows). Apparently, NixOS has it's fans! See: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/14clrjh/how_is_nixos...
yeah man, I remember reading stuff like that before I was sold on it and eventually it got to me (probably after another borked Arch install) and I was like "fuck it, I am diving into this mess come hell or high water" and...
... Yep. It's exactly as s/he said it. Once you grok it, you literally want it on EVERY COMPUTER YOU OWN.
IMHO it still needs to get more user-friendly, or at least have another layer that is more user-friendly, as well as have ramp-up materials that are consolidated and good, before it will be more widely adopted
Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm
#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
I appreciate his efforts, but tmux from my cold, dead hands. kitty is nice and fast, but tmux is in my blood (and on remote servers where kitty isn't).
Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm
#256Earlier 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.
Is the setting you're talking about the one under Settings>General>Startup>Window Restoration Policy>Only Restore Hotkey Window, or something else?
That's related to it, but the feature per se is more like a specially handled variety of iTerm's profiles. See https://iterm2.com/documentation-hotkey.html, section "Dedicated Hotkey Windows".
Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm
#257I’ve been using western but unable to search my command line history or find the relevant documentation.
Ideally fuzzy search of just the commands I’ve entered and not the full scroll history as some results take many hundreds of lines.
Is there a wezterm community where I can ask this and similar questions?
Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm
#258WezTerm 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?
No, and unlike the siblings I can actually feel it.
That being said, wezterm is about the only terminal I can use now (besides putty). I'm on a cursed setup, Windows with a Linux VM and whatever terminal I use it has to be able to directly ssh into the VM (NOT via ssh.exe), otherwise there's much worse latency/quirks due to stupid Windows conpty issues.
Currently it does not annoy me too much, but when I finally have time I think I'd try to fix it.
Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm
#259I really seem to like software that's configured with Lua.
It looks nice just as a basic setup (key = value type stuff), but you can do really complex dynamic configurations with it (like the dark-mode config in the linked article).
Hammerspoon is another, you can do so many things with it - I replicated most of Rectangle/Manget with Hammerspoon+Lua myself and now I can do the minor tweaks I couldn't do with the pre-packaged apps.
Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm
#260Recently 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…
While I see nothing particularly egregious about Kitty's maintainer, other than being a bit of a dick, it's not really the job of a maintainer to be your pal. Except, when I started using WezTerm at the start of this year... omg, this guy is absolutely fantastic. I have read scores of his posts and he's struck the perfect tone in every single one. Love this guy, really, he's awesome.
On the same note, Benny Kjær Nielsen, the developer of MailMate for macOS is absolutely amazing.
He spent half a day debugging a rather trivial issue with me and even sent me a custom build.
MailMate: https://freron.com/