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Re: "re: Are You a Terminal Emulator Hipster?"

In: u/mediocregopher

i3wm+the kitty terminal+vim as my IDE here - very lean setup and no extra libraries....leads to a very fast workflow

🚀 maha

2023-09-15 · 10 months ago

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🦉 ResetReboot · 2023-09-15 at 19:16:

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.

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👻 mediocregopher [...]

— in response to ew0k

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...

💬 9 comments · 2023-09-14 · 10 months ago