vte
refterm
vte | refterm | |
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6 | 37 | |
170 | 1,496 | |
1.2% | - | |
9.4 | 0.0 | |
15 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
C++ | C | |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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vte
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Linux Terminal Emulators Have the Potential of Being Much Faster
Meanwhile, all GNOME-based terminals are still capped at 40fps:
https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10770
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Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
Low latency is still available. Get a fast gaming keyboard/mouse/monitor/NVMe SSD. Use a latency-tuned kernel, e.g. with full preemption enabled. Disable swap and run a userspace OOM killer to avoid the problems this would otherwise cause. Run Xorg with compositing disabled and TearFree disabled. Disable vsync everywhere. Don't use software that caps the framerate low (e.g. terminals using libvte[0]). Turn off all UI animations.
Most software I used feels more responsive than anything from the Windows 95 era.
[0] https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10704
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Isn't there a way to fork VTE to have ligatures support?
In any case, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
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[ANN] Terminal Emulator (like xterm) implemented entirely in Haskell
Here is link number 1 - Previous text "vte"
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xfce4-terminal: No more bold fonts in 4.16?
I'm glad I listed them, I think you are right that it has to do with the library. Seems like they changed the way bold fonts are handled in this commit: https://github.com/GNOME/vte/commit/59e11fd751806876dc1a28c9c6d9a17d75db57d2. They also talk about it here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/323.
refterm
- Linux Terminal Emulators Have the Potential of Being Much Faster
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What Happens Before the Main Function is Called ?
refterm, a terminal emulator proof of concept.
- Beside SDL, is there an easier way to just show a custom rectangle with text, cross-platform?
- Windows Terminal is now the default Windows 11 22H2 console
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Why Modern Software Is Slow
> licensing it so that they couldn’t even look at it
https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm/blob/main/LICENSE
It’s just GPL 2.0, what are you talking about!?
Are Microsoft employees vampires that will burn up instantly if they merely glance at GPL code or something?
This is sour grapes nonsense from Microsoft. “We don’t like your tone so we won’t even dignify your argument by considering it.”
At one point an MS employee said they would love to fix their code as suggested by Casey but he refused to even look at the YouTube video!
“I would love to hear your arguments but I refuse to listen to the sound of your voice.” is next-level dismissive.
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Making a unicode console in opengl; I wanted to run my plan by some more experienced opengl'ers before coding it
You might also find https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm interesting.
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How can I create a rogue engine from scratch without curses?
Casey Muratori made a renderer/terminal a short while back. Might be a good reference of you intend to go that route. https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm
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Microsoft insults dev then takes credit for their idea
You keep complaining that it's not a fully working terminal. Casey, on the other hand, writes here: [1]
> These features are not designed to be comprehensive, since this is only meant to be a reference renderer, not a complete terminal.
[1] https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm#feature-support
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Burn My Windows
After that post they did implement a full reference implementation:
https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm/commits/main
And there is movement in getting changes into the terminal itself:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10461
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Wezterm
For a basic example of why you would want GPU acceleration, have a look at refterm: https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm
Even processes that you wouldn't think would be impacted by a terminal can be hurt relaly bad by your terminal's performance: your compiler's logs, etc. The GPU rendering part merely guarantees that your terminal sticks at 60FPS (or, whatever your refresh rate is) if the processing behind is efficient.
What are some alternatives?
hs-term-emulator - Terminal Emulator written in 100% Haskell
xterm.js - A terminal for the web
termonad - Terminal emulator configurable in Haskell.
Windows Terminal - The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
Monitorian - A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.
termbench - Simple benchmark for terminal output
hyperterm - A terminal built on web technologies
sharedrop - Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC - inspired by Apple AirDrop
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.