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> Starting alacritty is kinda slow. I keep seeing comments like this popping up on HN. Do you guys have some funky esoteric configs? In my case, where I only
by vladvasiliu 2y ago
> Starting alacritty is kinda slow.
I keep seeing comments like this popping up on HN. Do you guys have some funky esoteric configs?
In my case, where I only changed the color scheme and font, the limiting factor when starting alacritty is how fast I can move my fingers to the i3 shortcut. And I'm not running this on some exotic, fast hardware, just your standard crappy corporate HP laptop from a few years ago.
The only time there was a noticeable lag was when my zsh config was borked.
- HaoZeke 2y agoI think the concept of slow is relative here, for a no configuration start (from a fresh install) alacritty is slower by a factor of 4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40559084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40559084 However the absolute times are still probably not noticable unless you often cold-start terminals. | Alacritty | Foot | Foot Client | Absolute time (ms) | 99.0 | 37.2 | 22.8 |
- sodality2 2y agoI can say personally that I switched away from alacritty because I would press my key bind and start typing, and it would consistently miss letters because I hadn’t waited for it to fully load. Foot does not. If it was an app I opened by pressing Super and typing “terminal”, I probably wouldn’t need the speed increase. But the shortcut is easily accessible from home row, so I press it often and quickly.