terminator VS alacritty

Until recently, my answer would have been Terminator. Recently, however, the lack of support for OSC52 and the fact that the workarounds don't always work reliably has been bothering me more and more. Based on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/2495, it is quite unlikely that VTE (and therefore Terminator) will ever support OSC52.

For terminal software, I really enjoy using Terminator, because it allows me to spawn several tiled terminals in a single window, with a custom arrangement that can expand and shrink easily.

I use Terminator as terminal emulator and ZSH as shell.

Using a Terminal Emulator with native support for split panes (Examples: Terminator)

I use the ZSH as a shell with its own configuration. As terminal emulator I use Terminator. From my personal point of view I don't need anything more modern.

Rust is one of the most appreciated programming languages, as highlighted in the GitHub Octoverse Survey. It offers memory safety, high performance, and strong tooling, making it a solid choice for both small utilities and large-scale applications. Many of the tools I use daily, like Alacritty and 1Password, benefit from Rust's speed and reliability.

That's it! Happy CLI mastery with Zellij, Oh My zsh and Alacritty!

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

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.

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...

The terminal I am currently using is st but I have also tested this "Vifm" enhancement in kitty and alacritty.

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.

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

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: