Wezterm! Configuration is in lua which I love. I have also stopped using tmux because of the multiplexing features of wezterm. I've never been so pleased with any other terminal emulator. Good video!
Suckless's terminal 'st' is not only small, it's fast. st is as fast as the gpu utilizing terminals for displaying text, and faster for startup. While that doesn't much benefit tmux users whose new windows are opened in an existing terminal, it's great for tiling window manager users opening a new terminal for every new window they're using.
GPU terms make sense regarding what you stated; each character cell is rendered independently and TTF are drawn unlike rendered bitmap fonts and then there's hinting and aa. Used both Alacritty and Kitty and kind of dig both. Would not have believed that Kitty was developed in Python as responsive as it is; kudos to Kitty devs. Good vid.
/usr/bin/st tells me that you installed the packaged version. That defies the point of suckless stuff, imho. Their stuff is intended to be patched with the features you want and recompiled in < 1 sec.
I have used Hyper as a daily driver for several years now the only issue I have run into is with applications that have right-click functionality (e.g. musikcube), specifically because it is built on Electron. That's rare though and I'll just find the hotkey instead.
What linux terminal is the best for smallest cpu/gpu/ram imprint? I want to have a bunch of opened terminals in the background running music from cmus, having an opened neovim/micro for some todo lists, weechat, elinks and other tui apps...I want them to leave me all resources foir Blenderm video rendering and Godot game engine... I don't know yet how to use tmux...any advice?
You said you weren't going to include terminal emulators that weren't going to to tmux-like things like tilix, but Kitty actually does have those features too. Hyper has that, too.
If you want to see images, gifs and videos, good luck with tmux & patching that with your terminal. I have just recently switched from alactitty + tmux -> foot->zellij, after finding out that rendering images or getting sixel support in my terminal is a pain in the @$$
@@simondj8572 it keeps breaking something after every few months. When i wrote the 1st comment, it wasn't displaying sixel images in tmux. Started working couple months later. But after that there was again similar issue, but this time, the issue was with playing sixel videos. Which i didn't mind and didn't care at the time. And now there is a separate bug, wherein which it causes to crash my application along with foot server on my hyprland setup, whenever i use any keyboard driven mouse tool(warpd) while foot is on screen. I think this 1 is related to hyprland and not foot. And i have already opened an issue on GH. but it's strange that it only happens when I am using that tool while foot is on screen.
Fig falls into the same category for me of being a really cool, concept, but I'm skeptical of the pricing model and the telemetry nature of it. I'd prefer a free (as in freedom) and open source model.
This is good to know because when I heard it was written in python; I thought it would be inefficient. I just use gnome-terminal by default and lately installed Alacritty. Alacritty config file format changed .yml to .toml. Was a bit weird to setup but got it going and seems good lightweight plus gpu accel.
Wezterm!
Configuration is in lua which I love.
I have also stopped using tmux because of the multiplexing features of wezterm.
I've never been so pleased with any other terminal emulator.
Good video!
I wonder if there is an "oh my wezterm!"
Suckless's terminal 'st' is not only small, it's fast. st is as fast as the gpu utilizing terminals for displaying text, and faster for startup. While that doesn't much benefit tmux users whose new windows are opened in an existing terminal, it's great for tiling window manager users opening a new terminal for every new window they're using.
GPU terms make sense regarding what you stated; each character cell is rendered independently and TTF are drawn unlike rendered bitmap fonts and then there's hinting and aa.
Used both Alacritty and Kitty and kind of dig both.
Would not have believed that Kitty was developed in Python as responsive as it is; kudos to Kitty devs.
Good vid.
/usr/bin/st tells me that you installed the packaged version. That defies the point of suckless stuff, imho. Their stuff is intended to be patched with the features you want and recompiled in < 1 sec.
Alacritty is a great choice, but lack of ligature forced me to look for other options. I'm using Tabby for now.
Kitty maybe?
I have used Hyper as a daily driver for several years now the only issue I have run into is with applications that have right-click functionality (e.g. musikcube), specifically because it is built on Electron. That's rare though and I'll just find the hotkey instead.
Why did you go for PopOS instead of fedora or any other linux distro?
Because I'm super lazy and Pop is so easy. I do use alot of fedora at work tho.
Just took a look at the warp pricing: for those money I have subscription to Jetbrains IDE powered with AI :)
Fully featured IDE vs terminal
great video! I went to use your X handle to follow you, the one in your UA-cam description links to some bot.. and not your handle as on your website.
tilix w/ oh-my-posh and nerd-fonts, with lsd aliased to ls. So pretttty!
Which terminals do you like to use?? Let me know in the comments
Alacritty
Kitty and Wezterm are my fav, they're feature-rich but still very fast
a small size bin doesn't mean it will not cost a lot of CPU/RAM usage... right ?
True but it matters if you're remoting onto a small desktop that only has a few 10s of megabytes of disc space
What linux terminal is the best for smallest cpu/gpu/ram imprint? I want to have a bunch of opened terminals in the background running music from cmus, having an opened neovim/micro for some todo lists, weechat, elinks and other tui apps...I want them to leave me all resources foir Blenderm video rendering and Godot game engine... I don't know yet how to use tmux...any advice?
st(or any other lightweight terminal) + zellij
I have only every used the small Urxvt or Xterm. Does everything I need
Just installe Alacritty today in Windows on my work computer. The WIndows Terminal was just too slow when I opened big files in neovim. :(
someone say nvim is fast :((
You said you weren't going to include terminal emulators that weren't going to to tmux-like things like tilix, but Kitty actually does have those features too. Hyper has that, too.
Oh wow, I didn't know Hyper could do that: TIL
@@JohnCodes ...and iTerm2, and Wezterm
No mention of WezTerm?
I tried Wezterm recently and it wasn't smooth, scrolling was janky and key entry felt delayed. I'm on Windows.
Actual pro developers probably couldn't care less about what terminal emulator they use.
I just use st, never felt a need for anything fancier
Yeah, st does it mostly for me: maybe I've just gotten lazy (especially on my work macbook) and like Alacritty so much for it's simple yaml config
Where is foot terminal? It's the fastest terminal for wayland by far. Make a video on it, would be nice!
I read foot terminal doesn't use the gpu; one reason not that interested into it.
Funny you say tmux matters a lot to you, but considering Warp. Their support for it has been, well… subpar for years now.
I agree terminals are awesome. Its the first question I ask on a date. If they never use one they get a slap.
electron terminal HELL NAW!
If you want to see images, gifs and videos, good luck with tmux & patching that with your terminal. I have just recently switched from alactitty + tmux -> foot->zellij, after finding out that rendering images or getting sixel support in my terminal is a pain in the @$$
What is wrong with foot terminal in your use case?
@@simondj8572 it keeps breaking something after every few months. When i wrote the 1st comment, it wasn't displaying sixel images in tmux. Started working couple months later. But after that there was again similar issue, but this time, the issue was with playing sixel videos. Which i didn't mind and didn't care at the time. And now there is a separate bug, wherein which it causes to crash my application along with foot server on my hyprland setup, whenever i use any keyboard driven mouse tool(warpd) while foot is on screen. I think this 1 is related to hyprland and not foot. And i have already opened an issue on GH. but it's strange that it only happens when I am using that tool while foot is on screen.
Kitty is the way
Kitty is great!
I have no idea why anyone would want an electron app for a terminal... All electron does is make development easier for web dev people.
Vscode exists. And it has a terminal.
But yeah, eats RAM like your average american eats burgers
wezterm gang
Wezterm !
Any terminal is good as long as you have Fig installed
Fig falls into the same category for me of being a really cool, concept, but I'm skeptical of the pricing model and the telemetry nature of it. I'd prefer a free (as in freedom) and open source model.
Does it even work? Half of the time its broken due to a new production bug they push. 😂
Kitty is polyglot. The fast parts are written in C.
This is good to know because when I heard it was written in python; I thought it would be inefficient. I just use gnome-terminal by default and lately installed Alacritty. Alacritty config file format changed .yml to .toml. Was a bit weird to setup but got it going and seems good lightweight plus gpu accel.
foot