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The situation for terminal emulators is still bad on Windows. Those web-based ones have no problems with fancy font features like powerline icons or ligatures
by hs86 8y ago
The situation for terminal emulators is still bad on Windows.
Those web-based ones have no problems with fancy font features like powerline icons or ligatures but they still have a limitation when it comes to color support. [1] Fluent seems to be affected from this as well.
The other important feature for me is tmux with mouse support. To my knowledge, only WSLtty [2] does this right. It lacks support for font ligatures but I value a functional tmux more than some ligature eye candy.
I still hope that Microsoft will improve their own conhost.exe in further updates. Also, the upcoming 1903 update will improve the color support those web-based terminal emulators.
[1] https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1968 https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1968
[2] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty https://github.com/mintty/wsltty
- bpye 8y agoI tried out Alacritty [1] yesterday - it seems to work pretty well. It's the only one I've found so far that uses the new ConPty API. It's font rendering doesn't seem quite as nice as conhost though. [1] - https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
- trigoman 8y agoI didn't know about WSLtty! Thank you for the awareness, I've been using Hyper and have been hitting the tmux issues you listed. It's noticeably faster and works great :)
- l24ztj 8y agowsltty is absolute crap. Not only it is very very slow with long lines or fast output, it also freezes often with applications that have GUIs like irssi.