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Nothing even mentioned on WezTerm really?
People still use WezTerm when we have Kitty and Ghostty? Can you explain why? I'm actually interested to know what would make someone make that choice.
Very customizable and extensible using Lua. Extensive documentation, native ssh support and built-in multiplexing.
I see Ghostty does not support (and does not plan on adding support for) Sixels, instead preferring the Kitty image protocol. Now if the Kitty image protocol is so great and the Sixel stuff is so bad, ~~why is it only used in Kitty and Ghostty?~~ *Edit: it's also supported in Konsole, WezTerm, ... but still I'm interested in why we have 2 competing protocols right now.
IMO none of them are particularly useful. Sixels is hilariously inefficient. Kitty is slightly better because you can send data as PNG, but ... you have to send image data as PNG! I wish there was a high performance way of remoting graphics over SSH. How cool would it be if you could SSH to a remote machine and it just showed you the remote desktop in the terminal itself? No messing around with port forwarding, weird…
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> Now if the Kitty image protocol is so great and the Sixel stuff is so bad, why is it only used in Kitty and Ghostty? Images as in "pictures" or is that something else? I'm using Alacritty, and I don't think I've once thought "I need to see this image inside the terminal" and I do deal with images and frames from videos a lot. Probably if I saw it being added to Alacritty I'd think it was adding unnecessary bloat, s…
The alacritty maintainers reject any image protocols as unnecessary. I am fond of images in terminals, but I gotta say that I respect their decision, very good call. Not every terminal emulator should do the same.
I see Ghostty does not support (and does not plan on adding support for) Sixels, instead preferring the Kitty image protocol. Now if the Kitty image protocol is so great and the Sixel stuff is so bad, ~~why is it only used in Kitty and Ghostty?~~ *Edit: it's also supported in Konsole, WezTerm, ... but still I'm interested in why we have 2 competing protocols right now.
> Now if the Kitty image protocol is so great and the Sixel stuff is so bad, why is it only used in Kitty and Ghostty? Images as in "pictures" or is that something else? I'm using Alacritty, and I don't think I've once thought "I need to see this image inside the terminal" and I do deal with images and frames from videos a lot. Probably if I saw it being added to Alacritty I'd think it was adding unnecessary bloat, s…
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IMO none of them are particularly useful. Sixels is hilariously inefficient. Kitty is slightly better because you can send data as PNG, but ... you have to send image data as PNG! I wish there was a high performance way of remoting graphics over SSH. How cool would it be if you could SSH to a remote machine and it just showed you the remote desktop in the terminal itself? No messing around with port forwarding, weird…
At that point you're really better off using some other remoting protocol instead of trying to tunnel it all over a terminal session. There's nothing left of the original terminal.
If it worked it would greatly reduce the hassle.
Think about all the TUI apps that exist. They're useful because they're convenient when working in a terminal, not because they look like shit.
Overall, it literally looks like a better Alacritty alternative. The creator(s) did a great job!
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At that point you're really better off using some other remoting protocol instead of trying to tunnel it all over a terminal session. There's nothing left of the original terminal.
There is though - the ssh authentication and connection is already handled, and I'm already in a terminal. When I quit the app or session I'm back in the terminal. If it worked it would greatly reduce the hassle. Think about all the TUI apps that exist. They're useful because they're convenient when working in a terminal, not because they look like shit.
SteamOS comes with Konsole, so that's what I've got installed in Linux. What am I missing out on by not using e.g. Ghostty?
(I know this article is about Unicode support, but I don't think I've ever had a hard time using a terminal because of its level of Unicode support.)
I have been pretty happy with Alacritty for a while but just tried Ghostty and am a little bit mind-blown. The fact that it has a built-in theme picker is insanely convenient for people working on multiple computers at the same time(so the same theme might not work everywhere). Overall, it literally looks like a better Alacritty alternative. The creator(s) did a great job!