alacritty
Alacritty is a fast and cross-platform terminal emulator that performs GPU accelerated processing with OpenGL. BSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows run; instead of rewriting functions, it integrates with other applications, so it leaves features like tabs and partitions to the window manager or tmux. It comes with reasonable defaults, is extensively configured with the alacritty.toml file, and is still beta-level according to README.
alacritty
100alacritty · Terminal & CLI
- You run it as a terminal emulator on different platforms.
- You customize settings through configuration files.
- You run your day job with a simple, GPU-accelerated terminal that leaves tabs and partitions to a multiplex like tmux.
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
“I think you make a good point in this instance, so I upvoted. The follow-on discussion establishes the policy of big-cos pretty well and I don't think Alacritty much benefits from the AGPL since actual integration into other software base is unlikely (except for some of the…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
“edit: I just realized you weren't referring to a context menu, but select/middle-click. Duh, didn't even think to try that as I don't really use that feature much. That'll do the trick for now, though apparently they plan to remove this feature from the next gnome release? Seems…”
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