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wezterm VS RXVT

Compare wezterm VS RXVT and see what are their differences

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wezterm logo wezterm

GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer made with Rust.

RXVT logo RXVT

A terminal emulator for X11.
  • wezterm Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-02
  • RXVT Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-17

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RXVT videos

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URXVT is the Best Terminal. (And some configuration notes)

More videos:

  • Review - My Minimalist Termianl Setup (ST and URXVT)
  • Review - Patching URXVT

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to wezterm and RXVT)

wezterm

RXVT

SSH
96 96%
SSH
4% 4
Server Management
93 93%
Server Management
7% 7
Terminal Tools
94 94%
Terminal Tools
6% 6
Productivity
100 100%
Productivity
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, wezterm seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 43 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

wezterm mentions (43)

  • Superfile – A fancy, petty terminal file manager
    I very well might be in the minority of Linux users, but I don't particularly care about the answers to most of these questions. I just want it to work. Give me solid defaults[0]. I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to override those defaults. That's an important feature of Linux. My first experience running a cool-looking TUI file manager yesterday (I actually ended up trying yazi first) was that I got a lot of... - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago
  • what terminal emulator would you recommend?
    Wezterm is pretty good, I've been using it for a long time without any issues. The feature set is honestly huge and I'm probably using 10% of the capabilities, but I like having a lot of options. Source: 5 months ago
  • Terminal emulators that break from the traditional rendering approach?
    And my own humble entry in this space is wezterm: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm which has a decent population of users in Japan and a handful of arabic/RTL users for the unfinished bidi support. Source: 12 months ago
  • Switching from Emacs. My experience
    Either Wezterm OR Window-terminal I Personally use WindowTERM with alacritty * when needed Since WindowTerm has some weird ncurses issues ,. Source: 12 months ago
  • Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust
    AFAIK wezterm[1] and warp[2] are built on top of the WebGPU [1] https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ [2] https://www.warp.dev. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
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RXVT mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of RXVT yet. Tracking of RXVT recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wezterm and RXVT, you can also consider the following products

Konsole - Konsole is a free terminal emulator which is part of KDE Software Compilation.

PuTTY - Popular free terminal application. Mostly used as an SSH client.

iTerm2 - A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.

Tilix - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3.

Kitty terminal - Super fast, GPU and OpenGL based terminal emulator with tiling support

Alacritty - Alacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator.

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