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Re: How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm

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Post by ASalazarMX » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

spoaceman7777 wrote: post #29

Wezterm was great, but I had to stop using it recently because it keeps crashing immediately (across two different computers) on CachyOS/Arch :/ It's just broken on KDE permanently I guess :/ There have beem tickets about it, and there is an AUR repo with a patch that used to fix it... but :/ Was already worried about the project given that it hasn't seen a new release in quite a long time. Got the feeling that the m…

I was really excited for it, because I didn't know about it, but seems to scratch every terminal itch I've got.

Except it didn't run on my Windows VDI because "The OpenGL implementation is too old to work with glium". There's a config workaround here https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/1813 though. I don't know if this setting, or the implementation per se, makes rendering slow, but it's unusable for me. I can't wait a couple of seconds for every keystroke inside mc, rendering text is supposed to be lightning fast.

Re: How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm

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Post by pksebben » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 6:47 PM UTC

theshrike79 wrote: post #70

pksebben wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost entirely with you on that, actually. But OS and other environment differences frequently demand some sort of tweaking, which I absolutely do not want to do by hand if I've done it before.

Chezmoi can do conditional templating on config files, which is super nice. But it's always better when the application itself is cross platform and uses just a single config file. (Just setting all of the knobs on macOS is a massive hassle and only part of them can be automated in a deterministic way...)

It's about time I started using a dotfile manager that I didn't make entirely myself - thanks for the recommendation.

For more and more of the cross-platform headaches, I've actually found myself treating the OS as more of a virtual host, and spending the plurality of my time configuring layers that run in it (modify .zshrc where it can do the work of iterm/wezterm, if it can be done in .emacs then do it there).

I get the feeling that I'm not far off shipping personal nix containers around, but there's still a little too much friction between having containers work and working on the OS itself.

Re: How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm

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Post by theshrike79 » Mon, Nov 03, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

pksebben wrote: post #72

theshrike79 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chezmoi can do conditional templating on config files, which is super nice. But it's always better when the application itself is cross platform and uses just a single config file. (Just setting all of the knobs on macOS is a massive hassle and only part of them can be automated in a deterministic way...)

It's about time I started using a dotfile manager that I didn't make entirely myself - thanks for the recommendation. For more and more of the cross-platform headaches, I've actually found myself treating the OS as more of a virtual host, and spending the plurality of my time configuring layers that run in it (modify .zshrc where it can do the work of iterm/wezterm, if it can be done in .emacs then do it there). I ge…

I spent a long time messing about with different solutions and Chezmoi is the one that's least confusing for me and fits the way I think the best.

I've been using it for years and didn't touch the templating until this spring actually, I just had if statements in my setup bash scripts =P