[HN Gopher] Kitty: The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal em...
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Kitty: The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
Author : varbhat
Score : 29 points
Date : 2022-03-23 15:54 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| metadat wrote:
| Is this related to Kitty, the Putty fork?
| peakaboo wrote:
| It's a very fast terminal but has some graphical artifacts in vim
| for me with integrated terminal.
|
| I use alacritty now. I also used wezterm for a while, it's really
| good but feels slower.
|
| Overall we are spoiled with choice. :)
| dundarious wrote:
| I spent some time traveling where my only computer was a
| Raspberry Pi 4 running 64 bit mode, and the only sensible
| graphics performance I could get in wayland was with "foot".
| https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
| kej wrote:
| Tangential curiosity: how did traveling with just an RPi work
| for you? Were you borrowing screens and keyboards, or using
| your own keyboard with a hotel TV? Any other accessories you
| used? Anything you'd do differently next time?
| prewett wrote:
| I'm not the parent, but I've traveled around with an Intel
| NUC, which is only a little bigger than the RPi. I got a
| portable 15" 4k "gaming" screen for $300, and I have a
| half-width keyboard. I bought a photo box from Michael's
| which fits all the non-screen items. I can easily pack it
| in a backpack (e.g. Jansport bookbag) no problem. The
| keyboard is frustrating to type on, although you get used
| to it. I probably should have gone with a keyboard similar
| to those Apple ones (but wired), didn't occur to me.
|
| I was trying to have a Windows/Linux machine on the cheap
| for the occasional cross-platform project. However, if
| you're doing serious work, you'll be happier with a nice
| laptop. (Except I don't know where you'd find a retina
| laptop outside of Apple)
| dundarious wrote:
| I was really only using it while staying with family and
| friends where I was always able to use an old monitor or
| a tiny "bedroom/kitchen" TV, but a hotel TV would be fine
| too (I'm assuming ports aren't blocked). I brought a
| Logitech K400 which is small, wireless, and has a builtin
| trackpad. Was also only using it for programming and
| basic web browsing. I don't recommend the keyboard (keys
| are a bit wobbly, some odd key positioning and shapes,
| definitely takes some getting used to, and the trackpad
| is relatively poor), but I just wanted something I could
| use for an hour or two a day, and it was perfectly
| acceptable for that. If I had to use it for a few more
| hours, I'd just bring a proper keyboard and mouse (weight
| permitting).
|
| I was confident I'd be fine though, I set it up in
| advance and used it briefly on the couch with a tiny
| monitor for about a week.
|
| I strongly recommend taking advantage of the USB HDD boot
| that's now supported on Pi 4 -- even some 15 year old
| 60GB spinning platter you have lying around from a long
| dead laptop is in my experience going to be faster than
| an SD card. USB3 to SATA connectors are cheap and
| reliable.
|
| The reason I did it was just trying not to be wasteful.
| My laptop died and I have no problem getting a new one,
| but I'm pretty sure I'll need a new one in a year for
| work -- the problem is I won't know the specifications
| (even OS, architecture, etc.) that I'll need until then,
| so I just wanted to see if I could get away without
| having to guess in advance. Generally I like to buy only
| when I need to, and to buy the best thing available at
| that time (within reason), and use that for a long time.
| matthews2 wrote:
| Zutty is also cool: https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/
|
| It's correct (like XTerm) while still being very fast.
| stas2k wrote:
| It is also old-school in a way of supporting Xresources based
| config, while at the same time being super strict on UTF-8
| support.
|
| Supports strange edge cases that I saw break other emulators
| like urxvt.
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