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urxvt and xterm are also fast terminals. The noticably slow ones are gnome-terminal, konsole, etc. They have pretty bad latency in the time between pressing a
by lupusreal 2y ago
urxvt and xterm are also fast terminals. The noticably slow ones are gnome-terminal, konsole, etc. They have pretty bad latency in the time between pressing a key and that letter appearing on screen.
- bayindirh 2y agoNeither Konsole nor GNOME Terminal are as lean and fast as (U)XTerm, however on day to day use, I fail to see input latency on these. I generally use 60-80WPM depending on what I write and how concentrated I am, and there's no noticeable lag from my perspective. GNOME terminal was visibly slow in the days of yore, but given that the libraries powering these are already accelerated, I don't think the difference between these "accelerated" terminals are as big as touted w.r.t. GNOME Terminal or KDE's Konsole.
- lupusreal 2y agoTo be fair I haven't tried gnome terminal in some years so maybe it's improved. I have used konsole (well, yakuake, but same thing) more recently and was minorly annoyed by the latency, particularly when scrolling in emacs/etc. I have since swapped out yakuake with kitty with tdrop for the "quake mode" effect.
- bayindirh 2y agoYes, Yakuake uses the same Konsole framework, but they might lag behind in terms of framework version IIUC. Konsole supports more features than Yakuake and feels a bit smoother to me since I drive both daily. Love to collaborate and make some tests with you, too.