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Any Alacritry users have opinions on this? I've been waiting for its release and am looking forward to trying it. Wonder what the big differences are? I mostly

Any Alacritry users have opinions on this? I've been waiting for its release and am looking forward to trying it. Wonder what the big differences are? I mostly appreciate Alacritty's simplicity and use tmux to manage multiple windows/panes.

wonger_ 2y ago
In my experience, Alacritty had a few bugs / unimplemented features that broke certain TUIs. Ghostty seems to be the most complete / least broken terminal emulator.
jitl 2y ago
You should also check out Wezterm too and see which one you like more. I ported my tmux keybinds to Wezterm - including vim-tmux-navigator style ctrl+{h,j,k,l} for navigating between nvim splits and Wezterm splits, ctrl-a as tmux leader. Getting tmux out of the way between terminal and nvim noticably improved scroll feeling in nvim and just in shell scrollback too. I styled Wezterm's tabs to look just like my tmux tab bar too, there's no visual difference for me between a Wezterm window with Wezterm tabs, and a Wezterm window with tmux tabs. If you're more of a terminal native than a Mac native, I think you'd enjoy it. My wezterm config: https://github.com/justjake/Dotfiles/blob/new/config/wezterm/wezterm.lua https://github.com/justjake/Dotfiles/blob/new/config/wezterm...
- nickorlow 2y ago
  Does wezterm (or any other terminal emulator) have some way to attach to a session over ssh or over multiple ttys? It's the main thing stopping me from jumping ship.
  - jitl 2y ago
    Yes, Wezterm has this. https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html I haven’t used it yet, and it requires you install Wezterm on the remote. Ideally Wezterm could push a mux server executable to the remote host if needed.
abound 2y ago
I tested it out really quickly, and something is off with Ghostty's font rendering on my machine -- there's extra vertical space between lines. I didn't see any config options for adjusting the line height, just things like `adjust-cell-height`, which squished the whole font, and `adjust-font-baseline`, which moved everything up. I tried a few searches ('line height', 'vertical spacing') on the GH issues for the project [1], but didn't see anything. I'm sure it's a simple config option or something with my font, but it works out-of-the-box on Alacritty + xterm and others. I might file an issue if I can nail it down a bit more. [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues
vesche 2y ago
I was using urxvt for about 10 years and then I switched to alacritty about 5 years ago. Have had the best experience with alacritty- runs on all my systems, super fast, config is great. That being said, I’m gonna give ghostty a well-deserved test drive. I like it a lot so far. Love seeing more zig apps!
- ComputerGuru 2y ago
  Urxvt causes(d) my laptop running Ubuntu to sporadically but spontaneously power cycle, presumably due to bugs in the graphics drivers. Iirc it happened under Nvidia and Intel.

wonger_ 2y ago

In my experience, Alacritty had a few bugs / unimplemented features that broke certain TUIs. Ghostty seems to be the most complete / least broken terminal emulator.

jitl 2y ago

You should also check out Wezterm too and see which one you like more. I ported my tmux keybinds to Wezterm - including vim-tmux-navigator style ctrl+{h,j,k,l} for navigating between nvim splits and Wezterm splits, ctrl-a as tmux leader. Getting tmux out of the way between terminal and nvim noticably improved scroll feeling in nvim and just in shell scrollback too. I styled Wezterm's tabs to look just like my tmux tab bar too, there's no visual difference for me between a Wezterm window with Wezterm tabs, and a Wezterm window with tmux tabs. If you're more of a terminal native than a Mac native, I think you'd enjoy it. My wezterm config: https://github.com/justjake/Dotfiles/blob/new/config/wezterm/wezterm.lua https://github.com/justjake/Dotfiles/blob/new/config/wezterm...

nickorlow 2y ago
Does wezterm (or any other terminal emulator) have some way to attach to a session over ssh or over multiple ttys? It's the main thing stopping me from jumping ship.
- jitl 2y ago
  Yes, Wezterm has this. https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html I haven’t used it yet, and it requires you install Wezterm on the remote. Ideally Wezterm could push a mux server executable to the remote host if needed.

abound 2y ago

I tested it out really quickly, and something is off with Ghostty's font rendering on my machine -- there's extra vertical space between lines. I didn't see any config options for adjusting the line height, just things like `adjust-cell-height`, which squished the whole font, and `adjust-font-baseline`, which moved everything up. I tried a few searches ('line height', 'vertical spacing') on the GH issues for the project [1], but didn't see anything. I'm sure it's a simple config option or something with my font, but it works out-of-the-box on Alacritty + xterm and others. I might file an issue if I can nail it down a bit more. [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues

vesche 2y ago

I was using urxvt for about 10 years and then I switched to alacritty about 5 years ago. Have had the best experience with alacritty- runs on all my systems, super fast, config is great. That being said, I’m gonna give ghostty a well-deserved test drive. I like it a lot so far. Love seeing more zig apps!

ComputerGuru 2y ago
Urxvt causes(d) my laptop running Ubuntu to sporadically but spontaneously power cycle, presumably due to bugs in the graphics drivers. Iirc it happened under Nvidia and Intel.