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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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leblancfg ◴[] 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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throwanem ◴[] No.41225545[source]
Does WezTerm support an equivalent of iTerm's "hotkey window"?

For those unfamiliar, that's a window tied to a show/hide keybinding which when shown floats above all other windows, making a terminal instantly available everywhere - a feature I could live without, but don't care to. I'd love to switch for all of WezTerm's other features, but without that it's simply a nonstarter for me.

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1. lupusreal ◴[] No.41226027[source]
If you use X, you can use tdrop to do this with any window. I have it set up with kitty, pcmanfm, and emacs client.
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2. adammarples ◴[] No.41226696[source]
X?
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3. vladvasiliu ◴[] No.41226755[source]
X11, the "old" [0] Linux graphics server.

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[0] "old" because there's a new kid in town: wayland.

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4. bgm1975 ◴[] No.41231267{3}[source]
And a middle-age'd man named XFree86 lol.
5. mst ◴[] No.41236018[source]
https://github.com/noctuid/tdrop is really rather interesting.

Thank you.

6. naikrovek ◴[] No.41240276{3}[source]
I’ve been reading about Wayland since around 2010 and it still isn’t ubiquitous, and still doesn’t work everywhere.

How long can we call something that’s at least 15 years old “the new kid”?

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7. mega-tux ◴[] No.41270393{4}[source]
Wayland has arrived in lot of distros as default graphics server pretty recently, that's why it is OK to be called the new kid, IMO.