A Linux User's Journey Through Terminal Emulators: From xterm to kitty
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speckx
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Summary
A personal account of a long-time Linux user's journey through various terminal emulators from 1996 to present, detailing their progression from xterm to rxvt, lxterminal, alacritty, and finally kitty. The author explains their preference for kitty due to its support for both X11 and Wayland, as well as its unique ability to render images pixel-perfectly in the terminal using the timg tool, which is particularly useful when SSHed into remote servers.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledI use terminals a lot. On most machines, I have anywhere from five to ten of them open across one to four desktops
I found rxvt around 1998 and used that for a few years.
about three years ago I was mostly using lxterminal but switched to alacritty because it did most things right and worked in both X11 and Wayland
kitty was very appealing because it ticked the same boxes as alacritty but also supported pixel-perfect rendering of photos IN THE TERMINAL
which is very handy when you're SSHed to a remote web server
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