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Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by cosmojg » Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 9:21 AM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #217

adamch wrote: post #33

I've been using Kitty for a month now. I really like it. It's slightly less usable out of the box than iTerm 2. The default shortcuts are very counterintuitive (no CMD T for new tab or CMD W to close tab). But editing the preferences is straightforward. I prefer it to iTerm because it's so. Damn. Fast. It's the only software (besides Sublime) I run on my laptop that actually feels like it's using the 40 years of tran…

It's the only software (besides Sublime) I run on my laptop that actually feels like it's using the 40 years of transistor improvements I'm paying for. I wish more software fell into this category. It's still a little odd to me that something as conceptually simple as a terminal emulator should require a full blown GPU in order to perform smoothly.

I think both Fish and Kakoune fall into this category. They're a shell and a CLI/TUI text editor that feel incredibly modern compared to their predecessors (i.e. Zsh and Vim).

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by cosmojg » Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 9:39 AM UTC

ikornaselur wrote: post #312

kungtotte wrote: post #216

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For showing and hiding with a global keyword, couldn't you rely on your DE/WM to handle that for you?

Sorry, DE/WM? I assume WM is Window Manager, but can't think of what DE is, except Desktop something? I'm using macOS and unfortunately not familiar with how I'd do that, but I'm sure it would be easy with something like i3wm on linux (which I still miss after moving away from linux 3 years ago :/), but I don't know what I could use in macOS. Maybe I could find some third-party solution just to show/hide a particular…

You can run a tiling window manager like i3 and xmonad on macOS! See:

https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by cosmojg » Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 9:42 AM UTC

xhrpost wrote: post #257

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #254

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Do you use tmux? The tmux/vim combo on MacOS seems to have minimal performance gains when using GPU accelerated terminals, unfortunately.

This is what I was curious about as well. Screenshot shows a split screen though so perhaps some tmux-like functionality is available natively?

Indeed, it is! And I find that it's much better than tmux performance-wise.