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I've used Apple's Terminal for a long time, way back when there was a set of color schemes called "Terminal Fructose" that was nice, I would have different colo

by lsllc 2y ago

I've used Apple's Terminal for a long time, way back when there was a set of color schemes called "Terminal Fructose" that was nice, I would have different colored backgrounds for different tasks. Apple at some point built that in with their themes. However, Apple have languished with their Terminal support, they don't to >256 colors and some of the other more modern stuff is lacking and it doesn't really work with a Neovim+LazyVim setup. I've been trying to find a "better" terminal and have bounced around between iTerm2, Kitty, Alacritty and Wezterm, but while they all are more "modern", I find that none of them seem to have that basic "New Window with Profile ..." option that lets me quickly open windows with different background colors/themes (at least without some screwing around). Currently settled on Wezterm, mostly because it also works on Windows and I can share my wezterm.lua configuration (I should note that Windows Terminal is actually pretty good too). I still do find my self running Apple Terminal for quick things (e.g. using python3 as a REPL to do math or testing hex/binary stuff out etc).

theshrike79 2y ago
I stuck with Wezterm for two reasons: 1) I can share the config across multiple platforms easily 2) Lua for configuration. There are a few things I miss from iTerm2 (mostly mouse related), but otherwise it took me a few evenings to configure it to my liking (cmd-n opens a new window at the default dir, not the current one) and I've been a happy user since.
p5a0u9l 2y ago
> none of them seem to have that basic "New Window with Profile ..." iTerm has exactly that.
- lsllc 2y ago
  Yes, you are right! iTerm2 does -- as long as you have more than the default profile set up (and you have to set them up yourself, which is easy enough).
graemep 2y ago
Konsole (the KDE terminal) does this (either from the manu or click and hold on the new tab icon) and I believe it is available for MacOS.
larrik 2y ago
That's weird, as I dumped Apple's terminal very quickly in favor of iTerm2 specifically because it support "new tab with profile".
jamesgeck0 2y ago
If you want to add "New Window with Profile..." to WezTerm, you can probably hack something into either `launch_menu` [1] (for starting different shells), or `augment-command-palette` [2] (for adding items to the command palette). 1. https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/launch_menu.html?h=launch https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/launch_menu... 2. https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/window-events/augment-command-palette.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/window-events/augm... Yeah, it takes some screwing around, but programming extremely specific features just the way you want them is peak WezTerm experience.

by lsllc 2y ago

theshrike79 2y ago

I stuck with Wezterm for two reasons: 1) I can share the config across multiple platforms easily 2) Lua for configuration. There are a few things I miss from iTerm2 (mostly mouse related), but otherwise it took me a few evenings to configure it to my liking (cmd-n opens a new window at the default dir, not the current one) and I've been a happy user since.

p5a0u9l 2y ago

> none of them seem to have that basic "New Window with Profile ..." iTerm has exactly that.

lsllc 2y ago
Yes, you are right! iTerm2 does -- as long as you have more than the default profile set up (and you have to set them up yourself, which is easy enough).

graemep 2y ago

Konsole (the KDE terminal) does this (either from the manu or click and hold on the new tab icon) and I believe it is available for MacOS.

larrik 2y ago

That's weird, as I dumped Apple's terminal very quickly in favor of iTerm2 specifically because it support "new tab with profile".

jamesgeck0 2y ago

If you want to add "New Window with Profile..." to WezTerm, you can probably hack something into either `launch_menu` [1] (for starting different shells), or `augment-command-palette` [2] (for adding items to the command palette). 1. https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/launch_menu.html?h=launch https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/launch_menu... 2. https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/window-events/augment-command-palette.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/window-events/augm... Yeah, it takes some screwing around, but programming extremely specific features just the way you want them is peak WezTerm experience.