Re: X terminal recommendations (was Re: Mailing list unusually inactive?)
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> 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)."
I have replaced the entry with "Mostly harmless".
Well, no, but you are partially responsible for this:
| 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). And, three people who are not the author of kitty have written in to tell me that kitty runs on both, so it’s quite likely that at least three people use kitty besides the author.
| What’s best on MacOS? alacritty and iTerm2 and wezterm and Terminal are all fine. I assume you are at least vaguely dissatisfied or else you wouldn’t be reading this. Start with alacritty if you were feeling short on speed. wezterm and iTerm2 are both competing for title of Most Shiny Bells and Shrill Whistles, so those might be attractive to you. If you want kitty, I assume you have a good reason.
> > In the end, I was rather surprised to discover that xterm
> > actually has every feature I currently need.
>
> That's a good outcome!
Good and, as I said, surprising. I was not expecting to shift
away from alacritty, but I have and I am quite happy now.
-dsr-
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