Wezterm! Configuration is in lua which I love. I have also stopped using tmux because of the multiplexing features of wezterm. I've never been so pleased with any other terminal emulator. Good video!

great video! I went to use your X handle to follow you, the one in your KZread description links to some bot.. and not your handle as on your website.

GPU terms make sense regarding what you stated; each character cell is rendered independently and TTF are drawn unlike rendered bitmap fonts and then there's hinting and aa. Used both Alacritty and Kitty and kind of dig both. Would not have believed that Kitty was developed in Python as responsive as it is; kudos to Kitty devs. Good vid.

/usr/bin/st tells me that you installed the packaged version. That defies the point of suckless stuff, imho. Their stuff is intended to be patched with the features you want and recompiled in < 1 sec.

Alacritty is a great choice, but lack of ligature forced me to look for other options. I'm using Tabby for now.

Suckless's terminal 'st' is not only small, it's fast. st is as fast as the gpu utilizing terminals for displaying text, and faster for startup. While that doesn't much benefit tmux users whose new windows are opened in an existing terminal, it's great for tiling window manager users opening a new terminal for every new window they're using.

What linux terminal is the best for smallest cpu/gpu/ram imprint? I want to have a bunch of opened terminals in the background running music from cmus, having an opened neovim/micro for some todo lists, weechat, elinks and other tui apps...I want them to leave me all resources foir Blenderm video rendering and Godot game engine... I don't know yet how to use tmux...any advice?

@abhinavlakhani5637

11 ай бұрын

st(or any other lightweight terminal) + zellij

@MoreChannelNoise

10 ай бұрын

I have only every used the small Urxvt or Xterm. Does everything I need

Why did you go for PopOS instead of fedora or any other linux distro?

@JohnCodes

Жыл бұрын

Because I'm super lazy and Pop is so easy. I do use alot of fedora at work tho.

tilix w/ oh-my-posh and nerd-fonts, with lsd aliased to ls. So pretttty!

You said you weren't going to include terminal emulators that weren't going to to tmux-like things like tilix, but Kitty actually does have those features too. Hyper has that, too.

@JohnCodes

6 ай бұрын

Oh wow, I didn't know Hyper could do that: TIL

Which terminals do you like to use?? Let me know in the comments

@nmdra

Жыл бұрын

Alacritty

@lloyd5221

Жыл бұрын

Kitty and Wezterm are my fav, they're feature-rich but still very fast

If you want to see images, gifs and videos, good luck with tmux & patching that with your terminal. I have just recently switched from alactitty + tmux -> foot->zellij, after finding out that rendering images or getting sixel support in my terminal is a pain in the @$$

a small size bin doesn't mean it will not cost a lot of CPU/RAM usage... right ?

@JohnCodes

Жыл бұрын

True but it matters if you're remoting onto a small desktop that only has a few 10s of megabytes of disc space

I just use st, never felt a need for anything fancier

@JohnCodes

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, st does it mostly for me: maybe I've just gotten lazy (especially on my work macbook) and like Alacritty so much for it's simple yaml config

No mention of WezTerm?

@tusharsnn

Жыл бұрын

I tried Wezterm recently and it wasn't smooth, scrolling was janky and key entry felt delayed. I'm on Windows.

I agree terminals are awesome. Its the first question I ask on a date. If they never use one they get a slap.

Where is foot terminal? It's the fastest terminal for wayland by far. Make a video on it, would be nice!

@cybernit3

4 күн бұрын

I read foot terminal doesn't use the gpu; one reason not that interested into it.

Wezterm !

Any terminal is good as long as you have Fig installed

@JohnCodes

Жыл бұрын

Fig falls into the same category for me of being a really cool, concept, but I'm skeptical of the pricing model and the telemetry nature of it. I'd prefer a free (as in freedom) and open source model.

@tusharsnn

Жыл бұрын

Does it even work? Half of the time its broken due to a new production bug they push. 😂

Kitty is the way

@JohnCodes

Жыл бұрын

Kitty is great!

Kitty is polyglot. The fast parts are written in C.

@cybernit3

4 күн бұрын

This is good to know because when I heard it was written in python; I thought it would be inefficient. I just use gnome-terminal by default and lately installed Alacritty. Alacritty config file format changed .yml to .toml. Was a bit weird to setup but got it going and seems good lightweight plus gpu accel.

I have no idea why anyone would want an electron app for a terminal... All electron does is make development easier for web dev people.

foot