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I hed to look this up, so here's a correction: it was one large line logically split, not smaller lines. So you can't select, say, a long compact JSON line.
Still not fixed: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/3494
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How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm
I was really excited for it, because I didn't know about it, but seems to scratch every terminal itch I've got.
Except it didn't run on my Windows VDI because "The OpenGL implementation is too old to work with glium". There's a config workaround here https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/1813 though. I don't know if this setting, or the implementation per se, makes rendering slow, but it's unusable for me. I can't wait a couple of seconds for every keystroke inside mc, rendering text is supposed to be lightning fast.
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For 1 - there's actually a nice proposal from WezTerm to make this an all-purpose general protocol that I hope happens: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/discussions/4889
For 2 - I think this can be achieved with scroll vertical/horizontal scroll regions (which should also boost performance a bit). I hope to implement this in the future.
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You might not need tmux
i found the titlebar: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/6296
it's ugly as hell. but that's partly gnomes fault for not supporting server side decorations. and, at least they are working on something nicer.
in the meantime, now i have two sets of titlebar buttons. one set in the titlebar, and a somewhat nicer looking set in the tabbar. but i found a work around: if i turn window_decorations off, then i get nothing, but i can turn it back on without restarting and then i only get the integrated buttons in the tabbar without the ugly titlebar. now i only need to find a way to script this...
for now i'll just run it without a titlebar, using win/cmd+uparrow to maximize the terminal. i rarely need to resize it anyways.
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From iTerm To WezTerm
-- https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/3299#issuecomment-2145712082 wezterm.on("gui-startup", function(cmd) local active = wezterm.gui.screens().active local tab, pane, window = wezterm.mux.spawn_window(cmd or {}) window:gui_window():set_position(active.x, active.y) window:gui_window():set_inner_size(active.width, active.height) end)
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