Recommended terminal emulator for swaywm?

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  • wezterm

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

    • I'm very happy with Wezterm. I could be configured via Lua, has build in image preview and a lot of other features.

  • kitty

    Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

    • I would advise to just read the kitty documentation: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

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  • termite

    Discontinued Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

    • Yes, alacritty is pretty heavy-handed with CPU. And theres nothing like having your battery drain faster the more terminals you have open to make you feel productive. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3108

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