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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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488 points alexpls | 4 comments | 12 Aug 24 13:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.617s | source
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leblancfg ◴[12 Aug 24 13:39 UTC] No.41224245[source]▶
Recently switched to WezTerm and I'm very happy. Was using kitty before that – loved the set up and simplicity coming from iTerm2. WezTerm is leaps and bounds better in terms of what comes out-of-the-box. My terminal config is short enough to sit all in one screen on my editor. After that, the terminal just... gets out of the way and I don't need to think about it.

But the straw that broke my back with using kitty was, I'd end up encountering issues or trying to recreate some of iTerm2's features, only to end up time and again on kitty's maintainer's terse and dismissive comments.

e.g. IIRC his answer to "How do I set up tmux with kitty?" was something like "Don't, tmux is dumb" and closing it. Eventually I gave up.

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1. bee_rider ◴[12 Aug 24 15:40 UTC] No.41225699[source]▶
How are start-up times?

I mostly like kitty but I’ve noticed that it takes a couple seconds to start up when I put my cpu down to 400Mhz. (Which might seem like an odd thing to do, but xterm handles it fine and, hey, why do we need billions of clock cycles to start up a terminal? That’s ridiculous).

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2. fn-mote ◴[12 Aug 24 16:18 UTC] No.41226184[source]▶
Try using `kitty --single-instance`.
3. teamspirit ◴[12 Aug 24 16:33 UTC] No.41226373[source]▶
Just out of curiosity, what reason do you have to do that? Really curious to hear.
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4. bee_rider ◴[12 Aug 24 17:39 UTC] No.41227169[source]▶
400 is a bit extreme, it is as low as my clock will go. But I often go down to 1200 or 800.

I have an OLED screen and mostly use black background terminals, so I can get some pretty decent battery life out of it, especially at night when I dim the screen.

Dim/red shift/slow CPU is a nice low-distraction night time mode IMO.

Plus it is keeps my palms comfortable even if I accidentally run a computationally intensive code.