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Foot mentions (13)

• Terminal Latency

  It would be an interesting addition forbthe benchmark, although it's Wayland only. [0] https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

  But it's only for wayland, so I need to use alacritty on macOS. [0] https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator

  Alacritty is not minimal in its memory consumption. Foot is probably the best wayland minimal terminal emulator with an average memory consumption of ~2mb per instance. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Change transparency and color pallet of foot terminal ?

  Did you have a look at this page? It includes a themes folder. Also this page specifically mentions transparency. Source: about 1 year ago

• Anyone here use tiling window managers?

  Hi! HHKB user since 2004. Linux user since '95. I've been using tiling window managers for about 20 years. I've tried a few. Ratpoison first, then ion, then xmonad, then spectrwm (which is my favourite), but since I moved to wayland a couple of years ago, I've settled on sway (https://swaywm.org/). Meta-Return spawns a terminal (https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot, which is blazingly fast, using very little resources).... Source: over 1 year ago

ST - Simple Terminal mentions (44)

• Autodafe: "freeing your freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools."

  > you need to "edit your makefile". That isn't going to work for distributions Is it not? [st] requires exactly that. And distros seem to have no issues shipping it. [st] https://st.suckless.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Write Your Own Terminal

  Check out st[1] for a minimal terminal implementation. They also have user-submitted patches that you can apply to add desired functionality. [1] https://st.suckless.org. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age

  I am fundamentally and ideologically opposed to using a terminal emulator implemented in electron. If you feel similarly, then you might enjoy https://st.suckless.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Warp? A terminal behind login popup

  My journey of using terminal emulators began together with my introduction to Linux about 7 years ago. GNOME terminal was my first as it came pre-installed on Ubuntu, my first Linux distribution. Since then, I've had the opportunity to explore and utilize a range of terminal emulators, including Alacritty, Kitty, st, Konsole, xterm, and most recently iTerm2. It's been interesting to experiment with these different... - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought (2021)

  For those looking for a minimal VT100 terminal emulator without the legacy baggage of Xterm, I highly recommend checking out Suckless Software’s st: https://st.suckless.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago