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Re: "re: Are You a Terminal Emulator Hipster?"
I became a suckless hipster this year and use st. Dead simple and fast and tiny, just the way I like it. Likewise, DWM is all I need in life, no more idiotic desktops.
2023-09-15 · 13 days ago
I used to maintain my own terminal emulator, zterm, based on gtk3 which had tabs and split panes. It's entire reason for existence was to have those features but with a smaller interface. I've since switched to using Alacrity and the Zellij multiplexer, which does everything that tmux does but to my mind has better defaults. I could easily swap Alacritty out for any of st, zterm, rxvt, foot or others.
i3wm+the kitty terminal+vim as my IDE here - very lean setup and no extra libraries....leads to a very fast workflow
I used to just go with the default. Lately, specially for using Vim as my IDE, I switched to Kitty, that has some of the new fancy stuff for fonts. And when you get a 4K monitor from the company, well... it makes sense to have a speedy GPU accelerated terminal that can rended fonts well.
re: Are You a Terminal Emulator Hipster? — I stopped using Gnome Terminal when I stopped using Gnome. It's a fine terminal, but it requires a ton of library packages that you don't need unless you're already running gnome. I think I might have had some problems with fonts as well, but it's so long ago that I doubt that would still be an issue. I switched to Konsole for a while, which...