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I used to use kitty, but its CPU usage was on the higher side on my laptop. I tried alacritty but the lack of tabs (after using kitty for a long time) was a dea

by hiyer 5y ago

I used to use kitty, but its CPU usage was on the higher side on my laptop. I tried alacritty but the lack of tabs (after using kitty for a long time) was a deal-breaker. I'm currently using Wezterm[1], another rust-based terminal, which has tabs. It's worked great for me so far. 1. https://github.com/wez/wezterm https://github.com/wez/wezterm

roperzh 5y ago
by reading through the issues in Alacritty you realize that it's optimized for a very specific set of use cases, for example if you're using a tiling window manager you don't miss tabs at all (in fact they are an annoyance)
- konart 5y ago
  Or tmux.
antihero 5y ago
Do you need tabs still if you use tmux by default?
- hiyer 5y ago
  No. I used to use tmux extensively when I was doing a lot of remote shell work, but I don't do that any more. For local work I'd still use tmux if there was no other option, but kitty spoiled me :-).
- SloopJon 5y ago
  My favorite way to use tmux or et is with tabs in iTerm2.
- lopuhin 5y ago
  I prefer a tab for each machine, including local, and then each tab has a tmux or ssh + tmux.
- franee 5y ago
  Just moved to kitty from iterm2 a few weeks ago. Started with alacritty, but without tab support, was a deal-breaker for me. I use tabs in kitty with tmux on each tab. Each tab is a context in my environment (dev/services/ansible/terraform/etc).
alpaca128 5y ago
Yes, Kitty is too resource hungry for my taste as well. And the Alacritty devs outright refuse ligature support because all existing implementations are too low quality in their opinion. So now I'm just using st with a ligature patch. Not perfect and rather slow when dumping a lot of text to stdout, but it's otherwise snappy and does everything I need.
konart 5y ago
for some reason wezterm is very slow for me. I can see how neovim window is being drawn...
- ziotom78 5y ago
  Same for me. I installed it and checked how long it would take to `echo` a million random strings. It was significantly slower than Kitty, so I stuck with the latter. Hope it improves, because I loved the approach!
noisy_boy 5y ago
I use tilix[0] - it has both tabs and split windows with excellent customization options (accessible via UI). It is quick and I haven't had any issues with it so far. [0]: https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

by hiyer 5y ago

roperzh 5y ago

by reading through the issues in Alacritty you realize that it's optimized for a very specific set of use cases, for example if you're using a tiling window manager you don't miss tabs at all (in fact they are an annoyance)

konart 5y ago
Or tmux.

antihero 5y ago

Do you need tabs still if you use tmux by default?

hiyer 5y ago
No. I used to use tmux extensively when I was doing a lot of remote shell work, but I don't do that any more. For local work I'd still use tmux if there was no other option, but kitty spoiled me :-).
SloopJon 5y ago
My favorite way to use tmux or et is with tabs in iTerm2.
lopuhin 5y ago
I prefer a tab for each machine, including local, and then each tab has a tmux or ssh + tmux.
franee 5y ago
Just moved to kitty from iterm2 a few weeks ago. Started with alacritty, but without tab support, was a deal-breaker for me. I use tabs in kitty with tmux on each tab. Each tab is a context in my environment (dev/services/ansible/terraform/etc).

alpaca128 5y ago

Yes, Kitty is too resource hungry for my taste as well. And the Alacritty devs outright refuse ligature support because all existing implementations are too low quality in their opinion. So now I'm just using st with a ligature patch. Not perfect and rather slow when dumping a lot of text to stdout, but it's otherwise snappy and does everything I need.

konart 5y ago

for some reason wezterm is very slow for me. I can see how neovim window is being drawn...

ziotom78 5y ago
Same for me. I installed it and checked how long it would take to `echo` a million random strings. It was significantly slower than Kitty, so I stuck with the latter. Hope it improves, because I loved the approach!

noisy_boy 5y ago

I use tilix[0] - it has both tabs and split windows with excellent customization options (accessible via UI). It is quick and I haven't had any issues with it so far. [0]: https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/