![]() In the past, while working, I would use tabs in iTerm2 (when I was using it) and I didn’t think a terminal multiplexor would improve my workflow all that much. I’d just ssh into a remote server and run my bin/long-process in a screen and then put it in background. I only had experience running GNU screen on remote servers for long tasks. Terminal multiplexor is something that I’ve been staying away from for a long time. The look and feel felt right, so did the configuration options (colors, font, opening URLs with a mouse click, ability to disable all the “husk” such as window title, and others).ĭon’t get me wrong, alacritty is very decent and you can give it a shot, but choosing what’s right for me is not solely based on numbers, popularity, or features, it’s also a matter of personal preference. Ultimately, I fell in love with kitty, and I would’ve chosen kitty even if it wasn’t faster (provided it’s not slow, of course) than Alacritty. As they are pretty neck-to-neck, speed is no longer the selling point for me. It turned out that on my setup (on my machine) alactritty is tad bit slower than kitty. Measuring terminal emulator performance is monkey business anyway. Never trust the writing on the wall, on some setups it may be “the fastest”, check on your own setup with the tasks that you are usually performing. ![]() When I’ve been choosing, Alacritty claimed to be “the fastest” on their github page. Next up I’ve tried Alacritty and kitty and they are pretty close in terms of performance with kitty having a bit of an edge over Alacritty (which seemed weird to be because Alacritty is written in rust whereas kitty is in python). If I were to use a terminal app for once-off tasks, I’d be fine with either iTerm2 or Hyper, but as a terminal is my ultimate workhorse I need it to be performant. Default MacOS Terminal app I just don’t like, and it’s kinda slow-ish as well, not to mention I probably can’t get it on Linux and I doubt it’s open source. Hyper, being Electron-based, is also a CPU/RAM devourer. I’ve tried quite a few terminal emulators. It has to work on both Mac and Linux (Windows, I’m sorry, not a fan of yours), so it has to have some cross-platformability. Criteria to satisfy my needsĪ good terminal emulator has to be fast since this is the app I’m spending most of my time in. Needless to say terminal is crucial in my setup, so it has to be the best I can get. When working I can usually get by with only 2 apps open - terminal and browser. Inside of it I’m running the rest of my setup which consists primarily of tmux, vim, fish, git, some other cli programs, and a bunch of scripts and aliases. I do lots of stuff on CLI, - logs, process monitoring, creating pull requests, writing code and all it entails (debugging, refactoring, running tests, etc).Īs such, my terminal is the app I’m using the most. I do like it when everything is “just a click away”, or a keystroke away. > "Should I open an issue to review the default colors?" - A harmless question by itself, but with context from previous comments, this is again expecting the project to change for you.I don’t like taking away my hands from the keyboard when I’m working. > "I think it would be a good idea to copy the default colors from urxvt." - this is basically saying the same as above but with more emphasis on expecting the project to change for and accomodate you. > "Aparently the defaults are poor" - attacking a decision based on your personal bias without consideration for why things are the way they are or that others may actually enjoy the defaults > The defaults don't match your urxvt installation, and because they don't match your previous terminal, you insist they are somehow wrong. You put the onus on us to engage and poke at your problem to find out what you actually want. The initial issue description basically said "the colors are wrong" with no description of what specifically is wrong, what you've tried (if anything), and a non-representative screenshot where your "expected" results are being skewed by the non-focused window dimming.
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