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I've been using urxvt for some reason.. maybe out of simplicity. It's color range is bad though, though at the same time it's colors are more accurate than if

by platz 6y ago

I've been using urxvt for some reason.. maybe out of simplicity. It's color range is bad though, though at the same time it's colors are more accurate than if i run xfce4-terminal, for example.

ninjin 6y ago
I migrated from urxvt to Alacritty a little less than six months ago, here are some reflections. Despite all the talk about performance, I find urxvt to be more responsive. However, it is really not something that bothers me during day-to-day usage and I suspect that it will improve over time as urxvt is about as dead as it gets when it comes to a code base. I also ran into some font scaling issues across monitors [1], but I suspect urxvt gets around this mostly by being completely ignorant of things that have happened over the last 20 years. [1]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3465 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3465 Some awesome parts on the side of Alacritty. The community is nice and responsive, documentation good, code modern, and configuring it is straightforward (auto reload upon file edit anyone?). Try getting fallback fonts to work properly with urxvt for example, that is what ultimately drove me away urxvt as the rendering issues I encountered with CJK fonts just drove me up the walls. The worst being somehow shifting the font size depending on whether a character was present in my Japanese font or not. Bonus, I believe the following is sufficient to emulate the look and feel of urxvt in your `.alacritty.yml`: window: padding: x: 2 y: 2 draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors: true
pmoriarty 6y ago
I went from xterm to urxvt (which I used for many years), back to xterm, then to st to alacritty and finally settled on kitty, which I love. kitty has TrueColor support, way more features than aclacritty (which seems to take a more minimalist approach, if I remember right, and this was one of the main reasons I switched from the latter to the former), and in my experience has been both extremely fast and extremely stable. The only thing I really don't like about it is that it seems to copy continuously to the clipboard when I click and drag over some text, so pieces of that text end up cluttering my clipboard history (for which I use parcellite on Linux). The final selection when I finish moving my mouse and let go of my left mouse button works fine, as usual, so I'm willing to live with this... though I'd still prefer it not to copy anything to my clipboard until I've finished clicking and dragging and released my left mouse button.

by platz 6y ago

I've been using urxvt for some reason.. maybe out of simplicity. It's color range is bad though, though at the same time it's colors are more accurate than if i run xfce4-terminal, for example.

ninjin 6y ago

I migrated from urxvt to Alacritty a little less than six months ago, here are some reflections. Despite all the talk about performance, I find urxvt to be more responsive. However, it is really not something that bothers me during day-to-day usage and I suspect that it will improve over time as urxvt is about as dead as it gets when it comes to a code base. I also ran into some font scaling issues across monitors [1], but I suspect urxvt gets around this mostly by being completely ignorant of things that have happened over the last 20 years. [1]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3465 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3465 Some awesome parts on the side of Alacritty. The community is nice and responsive, documentation good, code modern, and configuring it is straightforward (auto reload upon file edit anyone?). Try getting fallback fonts to work properly with urxvt for example, that is what ultimately drove me away urxvt as the rendering issues I encountered with CJK fonts just drove me up the walls. The worst being somehow shifting the font size depending on whether a character was present in my Japanese font or not. Bonus, I believe the following is sufficient to emulate the look and feel of urxvt in your `.alacritty.yml`: window: padding: x: 2 y: 2 draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors: true

pmoriarty 6y ago

I went from xterm to urxvt (which I used for many years), back to xterm, then to st to alacritty and finally settled on kitty, which I love. kitty has TrueColor support, way more features than aclacritty (which seems to take a more minimalist approach, if I remember right, and this was one of the main reasons I switched from the latter to the former), and in my experience has been both extremely fast and extremely stable. The only thing I really don't like about it is that it seems to copy continuously to the clipboard when I click and drag over some text, so pieces of that text end up cluttering my clipboard history (for which I use parcellite on Linux). The final selection when I finish moving my mouse and let go of my left mouse button works fine, as usual, so I'm willing to live with this... though I'd still prefer it not to copy anything to my clipboard until I've finished clicking and dragging and released my left mouse button.