kitty-pistol-previewer vs wezterm

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wezterm

A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust (by wez)

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kitty-pistol-previewer		wezterm
	Project
1	Mentions	131
5	Stars	13,711
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	9.8
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	10 days ago
Shell	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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kitty-pistol-previewer

Posts with mentions or reviews of kitty-pistol-previewer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-20.

File manager with image preview in the terminal?
12 projects | /r/commandline | 20 Jan 2022

kitty-pistol-previewer (my project)

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.

Level Up Your Dev Workflow: Conquer Web Development with a Blazing Fast Neovim Setup (Part 1)
12 projects | dev.to | 16 Mar 2024

wezterm (Linux, Macos & Windows)
Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
what terminal emulator would you recommend?
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 11 Dec 2023

wezterm is pretty good, I've been using it for a long time without any issues. The feature set is honestly huge and I'm probably using 10% of the capabilities, but I like having a lot of options.
wezterm suddenly stopped working.
1 project | /r/wezterm | 6 Dec 2023

Had the same on hyprland with wezterm and there is already a bug report open for it: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/4483
Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2023
Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2023
The problem that fonts cannot be bolded in wezterm
1 project | /r/neovim | 6 Jun 2023

I had the same problem, and looking at this issue helped: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/discussions/3388
Git Blame work around
6 projects | /r/HelixEditor | 4 Jun 2023

- [Wezterm](https://github.com/wez/wezterm)
Terminal emulators that break from the traditional rendering approach?
4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 30 May 2023

and my own humble entry in this space is wezterm: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm which has a decent population of users in Japan and a handful of arabic/RTL users for the unfinished bidi support.
Switching from Emacs. My experience
20 projects | /r/neovim | 24 May 2023

either Wezterm OR Window-terminal i Personally use WindowTERM with alacritty * when needed since WindowTerm has some weird ncurses issues ,

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kitty-pistol-previewer and wezterm you can also consider the following projects:

howto-lf-image-previews

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

lf - Terminal file manager

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

clifm - The shell-like, command line terminal file manager: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.

zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

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

viu - Terminal image viewer with native support for iTerm and Kitty

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