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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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1. maztaim ◴[] No.41224273[source]
I'm a long time tmux fan, but I've been dealing with odd issues related to mouse actions. This is somewhere in alacritty, *vim or tmux. So I futzed with all of them, tried different terminals, all while telling myself it couldn't be tmux. So I just ignored it for over a year. I finally went back and gave wezterm a serious try just a few weeks ago and I am very happy to have switched. The mouse issues I was seeing go away. Splitting panes and resizing lots of panes is fast and responsive. It's built in so copying from a vertical split pane doesn't include the other pane like in tmux.

That doesn't make it perfect. Mouse themes are applied inconsistently as I use Gnome on Wayland. It also seems to be a problem when using neovim, but I can't prove it clearly enough to want to file a bug with anyone. Besides, everything I need to do still works and I rarely use the mouse unless I am copying random gobs of text.

I am sticking with wezterm for the moment. I have no reason to leave it at this point and it helped me reduce the complexity of my stack a teeny bit.

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2. bdhcuidbebe ◴[] No.41224288[source]
for tmux replacement, check out zellij for a modern take.

https://zellij.dev/

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3. maztaim ◴[] No.41224355[source]
Thanks for the link. I've tried this in the past. I feel no reason to try this with wezterm as what I need is already included.
4. hypnotist ◴[] No.41224832[source]
I use tmux daily. tried to like wezterm but issues with clipboard and resizing made look for another option. Very happy with Tilix now. https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

maybe less fancy/modern but absolutely rock solid every time.

environment: fedora/wayland/gnome

just throwing this out if anyone wants to test an alternative it out.