Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : zutty Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Tom Szilagyi * URL : https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : high-end terminal for low-end systems
Zutty is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, functionally similar to several other X terminal emulators such as xterm, rxvt and countless others. It is also similar to other, much more modern, GPU-accelerated terminal emulators such as Alacritty and Kitty. What really sets Zutty apart is its radically simple, yet extremely efficient rendering implementation, enabling it to perform seamlessly in resource-constrained environments where others struggle or fail. At the same time, Zutty aims to implement a sufficiently complete feature set to make it useful for a wide range of users, and strives to conform to relevant (actual or de-facto) standards. Zutty is written in straightforward C++ and only relies on OpenGL ES 3.1 for rendering, making it trivially portable to windowing systems other than X and operating systems other than Linux. Zutty provides a clean implementation written from scratch, resulting in a minimal, maintainable, modern codebase unencumbered by historical baggage. ---- There's been a bunch of those recently, but this one strikes me as interesting because of its minimalistic approach (e.g. st) combined with high performance (e.g. kitty) and conformity (e.g. xterm). A performance comparison is what brought me there: https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-of-Zutty No plan to maintain it, but figured it might be interesting to Debian folks.
