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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

#foot is a super nice #terminal that I just learned to exist: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot

#wayland only. has all the modern mandatory stuff but not extras.
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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I've tried both alacritty and kitty for some time only to realize that cross-platform terminal is not always the best idea.

E.g. it is pretty hard to find ubiquitos font settings that work for both GNOME and macOS. So on macOS I now use iTerm2 and in GNOME I use this. They play better with the surrounding environment, and possibility have shared configuration was rendered out anyway on how graphics works in each specific OS.
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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Ya, and another thing I like in foot that the only setting in graphics that I had to change was font. No borders, extra padding etc. in the default configuration. And only other setting I changed was to add F11 shortcut for full-screen. Took about 5 minutes to get it right from finding the project in the first place.
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visone@fosstodon.org

visone

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@jarkko
Check the server mode ...
` foot --server &` then launch the clients with `footlcient`
It'll surprise you

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triskelion@floss.social

Triskelion

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@jarkko I'm curious, doesn't it have weird window decoration in GNOME? Last time I tried foot in GNOME, it wasn't following GNOME window decoration style. It totally looked odd.

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@visone i prefer running tmux sessions so that kind of provides me same in all terminals but don’t mind feature to exist
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@triskelion i don’t care what window decoration looks like.
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@triskelion i only mind about padding and borders to be more specific
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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Sixel test. It is funny how much sixels have late years go appreciation when they were invented by DEC already in 1987, when they introduced VT-320 series of dummy terminals ;-)
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raven667@hachyderm.io

Raven667

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@jarkko this may be a rediculous question, but have you found a good Linux terminal which supports frames other than Konsole? I liked, of all things, MS Windows Terminal using CTRL-SHIFT-+/- to split the window into a new frame and CTRL-arrow to move between them. Konsole mostly works but is pretty janky with some weird glitches, unpleasing borders, poorly organized menus, etc., gnome-terminal has tabs and is reliable, but no frames. Everything else I've tried is unmaintained and crashy for me

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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Edited 2 months ago
@raven667 Never tried Konsole, and I've used tmux for past 10 years, which does have splits. So it takes care of my tabs and splits ;-) Main reason it being ubiquitos, i.e. takes care of split also in remote machines.
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raven667@hachyderm.io

Raven667

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@jarkko that might be the answer, I'll take a look at it. I've only used GNU Screen occasionally when I wanted a long-running command to be resistant to dropped communication, sometimes these days I just use systemd-run to make a temporary service, but am always annoyed in how it takes over CTRL-a and scrollback. I'll see if tmux makes more sense for me. thanks.

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