On Wed Oct 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM BST, Dan Ritter wrote:
And let's keep some Debian-related content: I recently did a
quick review of 43 or so terminal emulators; all but one of them
is available in Debian Stable.
https://blog.randomstring.org/2025/09/26/a-comparison-of-terminal-emulators/
This was a fun read, thanks.
I was surprised not to see Kitty in the round-up at the end: not
necessarily recommended, but in the first paragraph "If you’re on both
MacOS and an X11 box regularly and you would like complete consistency,
your choice is between alacritty (if you want it to be relatively
simple) and wezterm (if you don’t)."
Reading your overview of Kitty, I (theoretically) share your concerns
about abutting the author's opinions, although I'd argue it is at least
consistent *between Mac OS and X11*.
It's my current daily driver, I have almost no configuration for it at
all (in ~2-3 years all I've done is define url_excluded_characters and
un-bound 'quit'), so in practice for me at least that concern hasn't
been a problem. (perhaps it will later).
In the end, I was rather surprised to discover that xterm
actually has every feature I currently need.
That's a good outcome!
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Jonathan Dowland
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https://jmtd.net
