Why not just use tmux? It’s super nice.
What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
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Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#32wezterm has lots of bells and whistles, but is fast and you can ignore the other features.
Yeah I used to use alacritty with the ligature patch, but swapped to wezterm as it supports ligatures natively. It's fast enough, maybe not as fast as alacrity or kitty.
I just don't use the built in multiplexer or whatever.
I think if you're running tmux, a lot of kitty/alacrity's performance is mooted anyway?
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#33Alacritty is simple and fast[0] (it does have mouse support, but no tabs, sessions, or startup scripts as far as I know. Configuration is all via config file.). Is that the kind of thing that you were looking for? [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Regarding terminal emulators, I believe that by "fast" people usually mean "low latency" instead of "high throughput". Apparently alacritty has a good performance on thoughtput according its benchmark with vtebench, but it does not provide good latency performance according to [0]. [0] https://danluu.com/term-latency/
I agree, 34ms is unacceptable latency. Let's all use eshell in Emacs instead.
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#34I use foot, which has been quite good.
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#35Alacritty is simple and fast[0] (it does have mouse support, but no tabs, sessions, or startup scripts as far as I know. Configuration is all via config file.). Is that the kind of thing that you were looking for? [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
OP mentioned good colour support, which alacritty does not have.
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#36Alacritty is simple and fast[0] (it does have mouse support, but no tabs, sessions, or startup scripts as far as I know. Configuration is all via config file.). Is that the kind of thing that you were looking for? [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Regarding terminal emulators, I believe that by "fast" people usually mean "low latency" instead of "high throughput". Apparently alacritty has a good performance on thoughtput according its benchmark with vtebench, but it does not provide good latency performance according to [0]. [0] https://danluu.com/term-latency/
That reference is pretty old at this point, especially considering that some of those terminal emulators were very young projects still. I would search for new results before making a statement about performance.
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#37Alacritty is simple and fast[0] (it does have mouse support, but no tabs, sessions, or startup scripts as far as I know. Configuration is all via config file.). Is that the kind of thing that you were looking for? [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Regarding terminal emulators, I believe that by "fast" people usually mean "low latency" instead of "high throughput". Apparently alacritty has a good performance on thoughtput according its benchmark with vtebench, but it does not provide good latency performance according to [0]. [0] https://danluu.com/term-latency/
I'm not sure how current that article is - in that article they state that the alacritty team had created an issue relating to latency[0] which was closed in favour of a different issue[1] which is still open.
The newer issue[1] appears to state that latency isn't an issue on Wayland as it already has frame scheduling support, but their proposed fix targets X11, MacOS and Windows.
I was quite surprised as I hadn't noticed any latency using alacritty, but I've been on Wayland for some time so that might be the reason.
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#38tilix https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/
You can disable everything in it. I just use it mainly for the panes.
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#39Foot's already been mentioned, which is my Wayland goto. For
X, I like Sakura.
Re: What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
#40evilvte
sakura