Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator

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  1. kitty

    If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.

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  3. dotfiles

    A collection of my dotfiles (by siraben)

    My favorite aspect of kitty is the infinite scrollback. My scrollback is 10000 lines long and scrollback buffer itself can store 1 GB worth of history.[0] When you hit a certain shortcut, you can use any pager to search through the scrollback. It's all very fast.

    [0] https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles/blob/84225d914acd226863e...

  4. alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

    I've been using alacritty [0] for a while now. Really happy with it. I prefer it over the Windows Terminal, as it feels faster for me. I run a single instance with WSL on the desktop and use tmux for multiplexing. Executing powershell inside tmux isn't an issue. If I need an elevated shell, I use gsudo [1].

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

    [1] https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

  5. wezterm

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

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