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Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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danpalmer wrote: post #14
kitsunesoba wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe my needs are just too basic, but I've not found much reason to look beyond Apple Terminal, GNOME Terminal, etc. Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown, but I don't find that worth the quirks that come with e.g. iTerm2.

Absolutely. The only major feature of iTerm2 that I use over the Apple Terminal feature set is the tmux integration, so that my tabs can exist on my server and my terminal is more of a thin-client.

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bee_rider wrote: post #18
danpalmer wrote: post #10

I'm not sure what the state of terminals is on other platforms, but on macOS iTerm2 is excellent - having every feature under the sun and very good performance. If performance is a bottleneck then Alacritty is even faster, but I've never felt performance limited in iTerm. This makes me skeptical about new non-native terminals. Usually the pitch is faster development so more features, but iTerm2 already being feature…

I like the ligature support in Kitty. Alacritty—I used it for a while but I didn’t really notice a performance advantage. I’m not sure what people are doing where terminal throughput really matters, and when Dan Luu did latency tests (admittedly, this was a while ago), Alacritty was middle of the pack.

You can enable ligatures in iTerm under Prefs > Profiles > Text. (Unfortunately ligatures are not supported by the Metal-based GPU renderer, which is faster than the legacy renderer.)

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Post by lelanthran »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #11
danpalmer wrote: post #10

I'm not sure what the state of terminals is on other platforms, but on macOS iTerm2 is excellent - having every feature under the sun and very good performance. If performance is a bottleneck then Alacritty is even faster, but I've never felt performance limited in iTerm. This makes me skeptical about new non-native terminals. Usually the pitch is faster development so more features, but iTerm2 already being feature…

Maybe my needs are just too basic, but I've not found much reason to look beyond Apple Terminal, GNOME Terminal, etc. Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown, but I don't find that worth the quirks that come with e.g. iTerm2.

> Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown,

On Linux I use yakuake for that (was in the repo), added it to the startup applications for my desktop environment.

On my Macbook Air I didn't find anything suitable.

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