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There's simply no comparison. I wrote a program that prints mpeg videos to the terminal, and used it to stress test just about every terminal out there. Nothing
by jart 6y ago
There's simply no comparison. I wrote a program that prints mpeg videos to the terminal, and used it to stress test just about every terminal out there. Nothing goes faster and smoother than KiTTY. Alacritty is no exception; in my experience it had glitchy rendering for certain characters and lagged. The only terminals I've seen that come close to KiTTY in terms of textmode graphics performance and overall quality, are probably PuTTY, Gnome Terminal, and Terminal.app. The only bad thing I could say about KiTTY is it glitches for me on occasion when rendering Emacs windows side-by-side. See also https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/printvideo.html https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/printvideo.html
- anthk 6y agoMeanwhile I'd just use the framebuffer here with tmux, and a parallel tty with my $HOME/bin/fbplayer script: #!/bin/sh clear setterm -cursor off echo -en "\e]P0000000" mplayer -really-quiet -vo fbdev2 -vf scale=:-1 "$@" setterm -cursor on echo -en "\e]P01d2229" clear Add mailx, sacc, bollux, irssi, bitlbee, cmus, fbpdf2 and fim and I won't use X any more. Even mednafen and ScummVM work with export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=fbcon Try it.
- vdm 6y agoDo you have a browser? Clipboard? They're the things that keep me using X.
- anthk 6y agoOn browser: lynx and links work on HN. Not many sites. will work, but at least with links -g you'll have images in a second tty (I use the first one with tmux). And you'll get far less distractions. Youtube: mplayer on tty2 + youtube-dl/streamlink/mpsyt. Reddit: lynx gopher://gopherddit.com (r/o), tuir (r/w). Clipboard: gpm. Crude, but it's something.