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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27741183

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18481126

I've recently stopped using tmux in favour of relying fully kitty's built-in windows and tabs, and I'm a fan.

The real killer app for me was the "pass_keys" plugin that allows you to navigate vim and kitty splits all with the same keys. I think there are plugins that allow you to do the same between vim<>tmux<>kitty as well, so it's not like you would need to drop tmux to take advantage of it.

Anyway, so that's been a big shift in my daily workflow. I've been using tmux for well over a decade, and GNU screen before that (I was never able to train myself away from the C-a prefix.

The one thing I miss a lot is being able to quickly detach and re-attach to existing sessions. Especially when doing some work over an ssh connection. But then I can always just shove the terminal into scratch space, or another i3 workspace.

This isn't me trying to sell anyone on ditching tmux. I love tmux, and if it works for your flow then it's perfect for you. More just curious what kinds of setup other people have.

Is there some hot new thing that I've missed that blows both kitty and tmux and i3 out of the water? Idk, but I'm always on the lookout. :p

Kitty v0.39.0 was released with 12 changes not including any major new feature on 2025/01/16

We have 3 new additions, 3 changes and 9 changes included in version v0.15.0 released on 2025/01/14

I found the following Ghostty config can be used to get i3wm border around Ghostty (using i3wm with XFCE)

window-decoration = true
gtk-titlebar = false
gtk-adwaita = false

Related: With the release of 1.0.1 of Ghostty, there is an issue with border around Ghostty on Linux

Version 1.20.0 of Foot terminal is released with 3 additions, 4 changes and 2 fixes.

with 13 changes (nothing major) kitty v0.38.0 was released on 2024-12-15.

read details changelog here

So even though I was a bit confused by why Ghostty needs to exist at first, I'm now completely sold. And to be completely honest, you should be too.

read details in the post.

p.s. I am not the author.

released on 2024-10-30 with 7 changes/fixes listed. The major change is "the cursor tails"

Show an animated trail when the text cursor makes large jumps making it easy to follow cursor movements. Inspired by the similar feature in neovide, but works with terminal multiplexers and kitty windows as well. See the pull request for a demonstration video. This feature is optional and must be turned on by the cursor_trail option in kitty.conf.

5 fixes, 5 changes and 5 new additions

17 fixes, 7 changes and 3 additions.

Its main features (many of them unique) over rxvt are:

• Stores text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4).
• Uses locale-correct input, output and width: as long as your system supports the locale, rxvt-unicode will display correctly.
• Daemon mode: one daemon can open multiple windows on multiple displays, which improves memory usage and startup time considerably.
• Embedded perl, for endless customization and improvement opportunities, such as:
  • Tabbed terminal support.
  • Regex-driven customisable selection that can properly select shell arguments, urls etc.
  • Selection-transformation and option popup menus.
  • Automatically transforming the selection once made.
  • Incremental scrollback buffer search.
  • Automatic URL-underlining and launching.
  • Remote pastebin, digital clock, block graphics to ascii filter and whatever you like to implement for yourself.
• Crash-free. At least I try, but rxvt-unicode certainly crashes much less often than rxvt and its many forks, and reproducible bugs get fixed immediately.
• Completely flicker-free.
• Re-wraps long lines instead of splitting or cutting them on resizes.
• Full combining character support (unlike xterm :).
• Multiple fonts supported at the same time: No need to choose between nice japanese and ugly latin, or no japanese and nice latin characters :).
• Supports Xft and core fonts in any combination.
• Can easily be embedded into other applications.
• All documentation accessible through manpages.
• Locale-independent XIM support.
• Many small improvements, such as improved and corrected terminfo, improved secondary screen modes, italic and bold font support, tinting and shading.
• Encapsulation of privileged operations in a separate process (improves security).
• Optimised for local and remote connections.

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