Comment by 🦀 jeang3nie

Re: "re: Are You a Terminal Emulator Hipster?"

In: u/mediocregopher

I used to maintain my own terminal emulator, zterm, based on gtk3 which had tabs and split panes. It's entire reason for existence was to have those features but with a smaller interface. I've since switched to using Alacrity and the Zellij multiplexer, which does everything that tmux does but to my mind has better defaults. I could easily swap Alacritty out for any of st, zterm, rxvt, foot or others.

🦀 jeang3nie

2023-09-15 · 9 months ago

2 Later Comments ↓

🚀 maha · 2023-09-15 at 17:45:

i3wm+the kitty terminal+vim as my IDE here - very lean setup and no extra libraries....leads to a very fast workflow

🦉 ResetReboot · 2023-09-15 at 19:16:

I used to just go with the default. Lately, specially for using Vim as my IDE, I switched to Kitty, that has some of the new fancy stuff for fonts. And when you get a 4K monitor from the company, well... it makes sense to have a speedy GPU accelerated terminal that can rended fonts well.

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👻 mediocregopher [...]

— in response to ew0k

re: Are You a Terminal Emulator Hipster? — I stopped using Gnome Terminal when I stopped using Gnome. It's a fine terminal, but it requires a ton of library packages that you don't need unless you're already running gnome. I think I might have had some problems with fonts as well, but it's so long ago that I doubt that would still be an issue. I switched to Konsole for a while, which...

💬 9 comments · 2023-09-14 · 9 months ago