just discovered kitty terminal today and for some reason i love it.
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Just discovered kitty terminal today and for some reason i love it
Oliver Sanders
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Brody Taylor
any reason to use this over termite or urxvt? i use these 3 terminal emus and i came to conclusion that terminal emulators don't matter.
nice logo and name tho
Logan Miller
>made by a pajeet
>uses a lot of python
>the electron of terminal emulators in terms of cpu and ram usage
at least alacritty is somewhat presentable
Henry Martinez
>openGL
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Samuel Wilson
I have news for you. There's a terminal emulator written in Electron.
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Easton Roberts
>news
are you living under a rock?
doesn't everyone know about this abomination already?
Xavier Stewart
It's for winfags who don't have many terminal options
Jackson Russell
yeah kitty is easily.the best terminal
you can even have ranger previews on it natively without w3m ir ueberzug
has full unicode support
has wayland support
has the best link recognition i've seen
its too good
Mason Rodriguez
also forgot actually has full color emojis which is kinda hilarious to see on a terminal
Lucas Reed
if you're on wayland this is the best terminal
otherwise st or urxvt are its equals in X
Connor Phillips
>urxvt
buggy and bloated piece of shit.
Carter Nguyen
why is it better than termite on wayland?
Sebastian Clark
Doesn't seem to work on wayland. I got lots of buggy ligatures, the letters swayed up and down like a 19th century printed poster.
Austin Hall
two reasons i opted out of termite
>if i have transperency image previews in ranger or w3m straight up dont work or work broken as in when i open another picture the last picture never dissapears so if it was bigger than the current one i always see it
>When using newsboat termite fails to recognize links properly
Josiah Hall
linux_display_server wayland"m
put it in kitty.conf
Luis Campbell
dont mind the "m
typo
Logan Gonzalez
You can cry and sperg as much as you want, but deep down you know xterm is still the one and only terminal emulator.
Evan Hernandez
I've been using it for a little more than an year. It's far from being actually good, but in a world where people use shit like alacritty and urxvt... I'll take it.
Adrian Harris
what makes it so good over alacritty?
Justin Watson
i took bald arab's st build, added box drawings patch and it's better than most linux garbage floating around
Ian Murphy
It has two major downsides for me:
1. No bitmap font support (somehow reasonable)
2. You can't disable font anti aliasing
Ayden Edwards
Alacritty is the GOAT
>GPU accelerated
>Written in Rust
Gabriel Flores
Alacritty is an awful terminal emulator full of bugs and glitches and poor in features. If it wasn't because of Rust, nobody would know about it.
>muh gpu acceleration
Other terminal emulators have it and it's hardly a benefit. Kitty has it too and it fucks up a couple of things.
At some point they was literally arguing that scrollback was an unwanted and unnecessary future. I mean... really?! Not even if we lived in the '60s.
The whole project is masturbation over cherry picked meaningless benchmarks.
Parker Johnson
>full of bugs and glitches
[citation needed]
Henry Edwards
dang, this is a pretty quick terminal
>It's for winfags
where did you read that?
>"Cross-platform: kitty works on Linux and macOS, but because it uses only OpenGL for rendering, it should be trivial to port to other Unix-like platforms."
Juan Rogers
it's quick, but i'm not sure i'll use it
only played with it a few minutes and;
- uses more cpu time than lxterminal (so much for gpu offloading)
- uses 3x more ram than lxterminal
- window resizes with pixels, not rows/columns (so it leaves a border if you don't resize it juuust right, and the window size hint openbox draws doesn't tell you the row/column count like any other terminal)
and lets be honest, if you're drawing that much text, you're sure as heck aren't reading it, and it should be directed into a file or piped to something else
Christian Watson
>using software written by pajeet
The absolute state of Jow Forums
Bentley Robinson
fuck off with your pajeetware
Lincoln Kelly
>github.com
>Not really interested in adding this, but will accept patches
>On second thought, even if you make a patch for this I won't accept it, because of a feature people barely use
I don't get it. Dynamically resizing terminal fonts (that don't persist) has a pretty specific use case, because otherwise you'd just make the change permanent in configuration. The only valid reason I can think of is making presentations of your terminal, which I'd wager you have less people doing than using bitmap fonts.