more evidence that "modern" just means "written in javascript"
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I really hate this trend of making absolutely everything a web view / Electron.
A terminal that uses Electron? Hah, no...not a chance. I'll stick with wezterm.
Absolutely. wezterm is so good.
I installed it yesterday, I'm using kitty as default one, and noticed its just better in displaying colors. They kinda have a bit of more depth there. Any other cool uses of wezterm that you might recommend? Thanks!
Another kitty user here. Sounds like I'll have to checkout wezterm..
First time I read about it, what's great about it? I currently use a combo of alacritty and tmux and aside for a thing or two I could configure better I love it.
Not OP.
Wezterm can offload a lot onto a GPU which makes it a bit snappier. It also has built-in support for displaying graphics via SIXEL.
It's my go-to terminal emulator for anything Wayland. Alacritty seems to have been abandoned, sadly.
Why would anybody use this over wezterm or alacritty?
Why should I use wezterm or alacritty and not Terminator?
The answer to your question and mine should be pretty much the same. Because everyone has different preferences and requirements.
I think you misunderstood. I want to know what requirements you have, that are not met with wezterm. I understand, that some people like different software, but this is a huge github repo for a terminal written with electron. Just confuses me
Damn I gave those a brief lookup and they seem quite sexy. I'll have to try them out.
foot terminal enjoyer
My main complaint with foot is that I have to copy the terminfo everywhere, but other than that it just works I guess
Tabby seems to get a lot of hate in the comments here, but I enjoy it for the following reasons:
- it looks consistently on all platforms
- it has a nice working sync of connection profiles (even of ssh keys...encrypted!)
- its opensource
Yes, it is built on electron-crappie, but for someone who jumps across different workstations with multiple hosts with their own configurations, tabby is very straightforward.
Could the sync be done with other means? Sure, but I won't bother since tabby offers that OOTB and I can get up and running in 5 minutes from a fresh install.
- So can qt, gtk and pretty much any gui toolkit
- Syncthing or git annex functionally the same
- So is every other terminal
Basically just wasting resources for no reason
Cool project. I'm personally not a fan of using a terminal written in a web centric paradigm.
Tabby looks very good and straightforward but I'm more of a Nushell guy. Really love the user experience there.
I heard about this here, definitely going to give it a try, but I generally prefer simple, lightweight