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Tattoy Supports Animated Cursors with Text-Based Rendering

By

speckx

10mo ago· 2 min readenNews

Summary

Tattoy now supports animated cursors using a text-based approach with UTF8 characters, different from Ghostty's pixel-based rendering. While Tattoy may lack some subtleties of Ghostty, its pixelated effect can be appealing to some users.

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Tattoy now supports animated cursors.
Ghostty renders the cursor using actual pixels whereas Tattoy renders using UTF8 text-based 'pixels', namely '▀' and '▄'.
Because Tattoy already has a shader b
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Tattoy is a text-based terminal compositor

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