glkitty VS wezterm

Compare glkitty vs wezterm and see what are their differences.

glkitty

port of the OpenGL gears demo to kitty terminal graphics protocol (by michaeljclark)

wezterm

A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust (by wez)
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glkitty wezterm
2 131
86 13,711
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4.1 9.8
about 2 years ago 7 days ago
C Rust
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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glkitty

Posts with mentions or reviews of glkitty. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-15.
  • A new way of drawing boxes in the terminal?
    2 projects | /r/programming | 15 Oct 2022
    I named sixels because those are widely supported. There are other protocols (the iTerm2 protocol, for example) that can display even higher resolutions. There's also the Kitty protocol for displaying graphics. Take GLKitty for example, that's much more than I'll ever need from a terminal. The most practical use case I've seen is a terminal based file manager with image previews and they don't need that high a resolution.
  • Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal for the modern age
    39 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2022
    I use configured zsh which has majority of features mentioned above. It is integrated with fzf and also has autcompletions(with help description), autosuggestions,hints, file completions and more. You can see my zsh dotfiles below.

    https://github.com/varbhat/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/zsh

    I could even have enabled real time type ahead completions with this plugin but i haven't (because i don't need this feature) : https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

    i use my current configuration on foot terminal (which itself is blazing fast and boasts fastest vtt parser) in linux and kitty terminal (which is very feature rich, even has terminal graphics protocol so that you can even run glxgears(opengl cube demo: https://github.com/michaeljclark/glkitty) on it) on linux and macos.

    i am sure that other shells such has fish also has these features.

    So, what benefits do i get on switching to warp? currently,i don't see any except few marketing words which aren't enough for me to start using warp.

    I might be missing something but i am all ears.

wezterm

Posts with mentions or reviews of wezterm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing glkitty and wezterm you can also consider the following projects:

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

warp - Secure and simple terminal sharing

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

workflows - Workflows make it easy to browse, search, execute and share commands (or a series of commands)--without needing to leave your terminal.

zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

termbench - Simple benchmark for terminal output

Warp - Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.

iTerm2-Color-Schemes - Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty

vtebench - Generate benchmarks for terminal emulators

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!