topgrade VS alacritty

I don't understand why more people aren't aware of this: https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade -I use it for Linux and Windows.

To upgrade all at once I use topgrade.

For what its; worth, I love me some topgrade for keeping my stuff fresh.

$ topgrade Due to a design issue with notify-send it could be that topgrade hangs when it's finished. If this is the case on your system add the --skip-notify flag to the topgrade command or set skip_notify = true in the config file. If you don't want this message to appear any longer set display_preamble = false in the config file. For more information about this issue see https://askubuntu.com/questions/110969/notify-send-ignores-timeout and https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade/issues/288. ── 17:53:16 - System update ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── keine Neuigkeiten Bitte den Sensor des Yubikey berühren :: Paketdatenbanken werden synchronisiert … core ist aktuell extra 8,3 MiB 25,9 MiB/s 00:00 [##############################################################################] 100% multilib ist aktuell arch4edu ist aktuell :: Vollständige Systemaktualisierung wird gestartet … Es gibt nichts zu tun :: Looking for AUR upgrades... :: Looking for devel upgrades... :: Pakete nicht im AUR: gnome-software-packagekit-plugin js78 libsidplay :: als veraltet markiert: authenticator gnome-defaults-list lib32-aom lib32-libdav1d python2 xone-dkms es gibt nichts zu tun Zwischenspeicher-Verzeichnis: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Möchten Sie ALLE Dateien aus dem Zwischenspeicher entfernen? [j/N] Datenbank-Verzeichnis: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Möchten Sie ungenutzte Repositorien entfernen? [J/n] Ungenutzte Sync-Repositorien werden entfernt … Clone-Verzeichnis: /home/ingo/.cache/paru/clone :: Do you want to clean ALL AUR packages from cache? [j/N]: Diff-Verzeichnis: /home/ingo/.cache/paru/diff :: Alle gespeicherten Diffs entfernen? [J/n]: ── 17:53:25 - Configuration update ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:25 - Gnome Shell extensions ─────────────────────────────────────────── () ── 17:53:25 - rustup ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu unchanged - rustc 1.70.0 (90c541806 2023-05-31) info: cleaning up downloads & tmp directories info: self-update is disabled for this build of rustup info: any updates to rustup will need to be fetched with your system package manager ── 17:53:25 - pip3 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Requirement already satisfied: pip in /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages (23.1.2) ── 17:53:26 - Node Package Manager ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:27 - Yarn Package Manager ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:27 - Node Package Manager ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:27 - micro ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Checking for plugin updates Nothing to install / update ── 17:53:28 - Flatpak User Packages ──────────────────────────────────────────── Suche nach Aktualisierungen … Nichts zu tun. Nothing unused to uninstall ── 17:53:28 - Flatpak System Packages ────────────────────────────────────────── Suche nach Aktualisierungen … Nichts zu tun. Nothing unused to uninstall ── 17:53:28 - snap ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── All snaps up to date. ── 17:53:29 - Firmware upgrades ──────────────────────────────────────────────── Firmware metadata last refresh: 8 Stunden ago. Use --force to refresh again. Geräte mit keinen verfügbaren Firmware-Aktualisierungen: • SSD 860 QVO 2TB • SSD 870 EVO 4TB • ST1000LM035-1RK172 • WDS100T3XHC-00SJG0 No updatable devices ── 17:53:29 - Summary ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── System update: OK config-update: OK Gnome Shell Extensions: OK rustup: OK pip3: OK micro: OK Flatpak: OK snap: OK Firmware upgrades: OK Pacman backup configuration files found: /etc/pam.d/doas.pacsave /etc/dracut-uefi-hook.conf.pacsave

The ncurses tui is nice, maybe you can make a wrapper with ideas from topgrade and/or Wingetui

You might want to take a look at https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade

Consider adding topgrade. Yeah, I know gnome-software is supposed to be the preferred way now, but I'd still rather update my system from the command line and topgrade will update everything.

Once you have it installations, you can keep it up-to-date with https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade

It's opinionated, which comes with upsides and downsides. I won't blame the maintainer to keep things focused, feature creep (even for worthy features) can kill a FOSS project.

Another example is sixel support, there's a fork where it all works but is not sufficiently "proven" (code quality just as well as sixel being the best fit for the problem)

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/4763#issuecommen...

It may be annoying but I get the reasoning, and there are other terminals.

alacritty (Linux, Macos & Windows)

> Ligatures: ok, nice, possible in terms too (hopefully Alacritty one day)

I wouldn't hold my breath. Seems like its getting the iPad calculator treatment[0]. Which is to say rather than ship something working that can be improved, they're leaving a UX void.

[0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/50

IME, this is like the golden age of terminal apps in general and macOS-compatible ones in particular. There are several really good terminals for macOS:

[iTerm2 app](https://iterm2.com/)

[Kitty terminal](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/)

[WezTerm terminal](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html)

[Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty)

My daily driver is WezTerm…

- Runs on Linux, macOS, Windows 10 and FreeBSD

- [Multiplex terminal panes, tabs and windows on local and remote hosts, with native mouse and scrollback](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html)

- [Ligatures](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#fira-code-monospaced-font...), Color Emoji and font fallback, with true color and [dynamic color schemes](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/appearance.html#colors).

- [Hyperlinks](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/hyperlinks.html)

- [Searchable Scrollback](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/scrollback.html) (use mouse wheel and `Shift-PageUp` and `Shift PageDown` to navigate, Ctrl-Shift-F to activate search mode)

- xterm style selection of text with mouse; paste selection via `Shift-Insert` (bracketed paste is supported!)

- SGR style mouse reporting (works in vim and tmux)

- Render underline, double-underline, italic, bold, strikethrough (most other terminal emulators do not support as many render attributes)

- Configuration via a [configuration file](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/files.html) with hot reloading

- Multiple Windows (Hotkey: `Super-N`)

- Splits/Panes (Split horizontally/vertically: `Ctrl-Shift-Alt-%` and `Ctrl-Shift-Alt-"`, move between panes: `Ctrl-Shift-ArrowKey`)

- Tabs (Hotkey: `Super-T`, next/prev: `Super-Shift-[` and `Super-Shift-]`, go-to: `Super-[1-9]`)

- [SSH client with native tabs](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ssh.html)

- [Connect to serial ports for embedded/Arduino work](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/serial.html)

- Connect to a local multiplexer server over unix domain sockets

- Connect to a remote multiplexer using SSH or TLS over TCP/IP

- iTerm2 compatible image protocol support, and built-in [imgcat command](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/imgcat.html)

- Kitty graphics support

- Sixel graphics support (experimental: starting in `20200620-160318-e00b076c`)

# We use Alacritty's default Linux config directory as our storage location here. mkdir -p ~/.config/alacritty/themes git clone https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty-theme ~/.config/alacritty/themes

if by 'in the terminal' you mean 'in a program emulating an ascii terminal' then no, because ascii terminals don't support anything that looks better than ascii art. they don't support sixel either. there are a variety of proposals for how to add graphics to ascii terminal emulators in a backwards-compatible way, such as mgr and notty https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/51

but the 'terminal' that a terminal emulator is emulating is a device which provides a user access to a remote computer. normally nowadays this is a laptop or cellphone. in that case, yes, you can use x-windows, xpra, vnc, or a web browser

A decent terminal application (i.e: iterm2, alacritty, etc.)

I have been having random input lags with Alacritty. Initially I thought it was my custom neovim config. After some investigation, I have found an Alacritty github issue where users are reporting the same issue: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/6844

Thank you for your suggestions. I have now narrow it down to my terminal emulator. Alacritty. More precisely this issue: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/6844