viu VS alacritty

I've been using viu, which is also written in Rust: https://github.com/atanunq/viu

How does imgcatr compare?

Viu was last updated 5 months ago, imgcatr 3 months ago, not a significant difference. imgcatr is a longer name than viu, requiring more keystrokes to type.

https://github.com/atanunq/viu

Terminal image viewer with native support for iTerm and Kitty

in another terminal i sourced and installed a terminal image viewer. this was before i knew the image was gone. anyways, the one i picked is called "viu" (github).

Lastly, yeah, i discovered after that some tools already does this, like viu, i just did not search with the right keyword when i was looking for one. By looking at the simplicity of the tool it was kinda obvious i was not the first person coming with this idea anyway.

Viu works in Alacritty on Plasma Wayland for me.

fzf-lua with ueberzug or viu

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:

Alacritty is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. find out more

alacritty (Linux, Macos & Windows)

The Alacrity terminal is incredibly fast and customizable. Try working with a large project in Vim using, for example, iTerm. You might be pleasantly surprised.

Wezterm gives you basic stuff like scrollbars that Alacritty refuses to do: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/775

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)