alacritty
kitty

alacritty | kitty | |
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366 | 311 | |
57,674 | 26,255 | |
1.0% | 4.2% | |
8.9 | 9.9 | |
6 days ago | 5 days ago | |
Rust | Python | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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alacritty
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Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
I don't want to learn tmux to handle a feature that my OS already handles. If alacritty supported tabs (and was slightly less hostile, e.g. [0]) I'd be happy with it
[0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3129
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From iTerm To WezTerm
I also tried Alacritty, but it is very basic and lacks the features I need. Recently, I tested Ghostty, which has gained huge attention – it has nice defaults, but its RAM usage is concerning (around 250MB per empty tab). Currently, it also lacks buffer search, which makes the terminal useless for me.
- 3 years old PR to Alacritty for Support for graphics remains open
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Ghostty 1.0
That's a great approach.
Not sure on the current state of Alacritty, but a few years back the suggested solution for users interested in battery performance was to switch a different terminal emulator: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3473#issuecomm...
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Preview images, videos, fonts, PDFs ... in Vifm.
The terminal I am currently using is st but I have also tested this "Vifm" enhancement in kitty and alacritty.
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Faking the tmux experience on Windows using AutoHotkey
I chose Alacritty for this. Why? Because it's written in Rust. Is there any other reason? It also has a pretty simple and has an easy to understand settings page and uses TOML. It also has built in support for vi motions. All wins. It's pretty easy to install as well, just follow the link above. I went with the portable version. Just make sure you note where it is going to look for the configuration files.
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Alacrity to Federated Cryptography
For a moment I was concerned about the terminal emulator alacritty[0], which this post, as it turns out, luckily is not about.
0. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
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My Neovim setup for Mac for coding (in Go), writing and boosting your productivity in 2024
Is not mandatory but for the ones interested, I am using the Alacritty terminal, so if you're interested you can download it using the following command in your terminal:
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Keybindings FTW! ⌨️🥂
Alacritty is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. find out more
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Customizing Your Lazyvim Setup for Personal Preferences
alacritty (Linux, Macos & Windows)
kitty
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Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine: a high performance caching library
kitty is very close, which is impressive when you remember that the vast majority of the work is done by one guy (Kovid Goyal).
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.239% vs 0.137%
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.729% vs 0.317%
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/graphs/contributors
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From iTerm To WezTerm
In recent years, new terminal emulators have appeared. I tried using them mainly for testing macmon. A couple of years ago, I tried switching to kitty, which was faster due to GPU acceleration. However, it required too much customization and still looked very non-native for macOS. GPU acceleration was added to iTerm as well, so I stayed with it.
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iTerm2 Critical Security Fix
No it's not. The author smuggles opt-out telemetry and is suspiciously abrasive towards users pointing this out.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544
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Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title
It's not just Kitty graphics, the Kitty Keyboard Protocol is a DOS waiting to happen, and Goyal with his customary charm is very hostile to the idea of correcting his mistake: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/7749
This isn't the only problem with KKB, it must be deprecated and replaced.
- Ghostty 1.0
- Kitty: The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
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Warp terminal – no more login required
For those that have to bounce between Mac and Linux for work/personal reasons, I cannot recommend Kitty terminal enough.
The main thing that's a big of a pain is you'll probably want to set up a scrollback pager (I use neovim as mine but vim works too) so you easily search the terminal output and copy/paste from it.
I use
# https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/719#issuecomment-...
scrollback_pager nvim -u ~/.config/kitty/kitty-scrollback-pager.vimrc -c "silent write! /tmp/kitty_scrollback_buffer | te cat /tmp/kitty_scrollback_buffer -"
and the scrollback pager vimrc:
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Preview images, videos, fonts, PDFs ... in Vifm.
The terminal I am currently using is st but I have also tested this "Vifm" enhancement in kitty and alacritty.
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(Youtube blogpost) Building Tree Link app with Svelte and Tailwind CSS
kitty (Linux & Macos)
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The Modern CLI Renaissance
The "security" practices of kitty are dubious: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544
What are some alternatives?
Rio - A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.
zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.
wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
Warp - Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.
nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more
foot - Unofficial Mirror: A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
tmux - tmux source code
st - build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw
iTerm2 - iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.
