Termite Terminal Reviews and details

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• termite?

  Note: I went to the termite github page and they still have the suggestion up there to switch to alacritty which is what I'm currently using. Source: over 2 years ago

• Bare metal Debian Linux on Apple M1 at 4K 60

  If you look at the people behind Gnome, you might get the impression that they are not interested in code openness or freedom, but the opposite. By their indirect actions they killed https://github.com/thestinger/termite/, for example. Source: over 2 years ago

• What's the preferred terminal emulator people are now using?

  I like alacrity or kitty, The termite github page says termite has been superseded by alacrity here's the link Https://github.com/thestinger/termite/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

  GTK, here are two forum threads that covers this. GTK3 regressions from a GTK2 perspective https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/gtk3-regressions-from-a-gtk2-perspective/19511 Horrible GTK3 / GNOME UI design is leaking into Ubuntu Mate applications in 20.04 https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/horrible-gtk3-gnome-ui-design-is-leaking-into-ubuntu-mate-applications-in-20-04/22028 And then you have the terminal Termite... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• X11 gang rise up

  I mean, yes, that's true. But there's some stuff that is significantly lacking here. alacritty, being GPU-accelerated, can be very laggy on low-end devices, and the input latency of alacritty is pretty bad compared to other X alternatives. I'm also not entirely sure what you mean by termite being "Wayland-native", given that their project has been obsoleted by alacritty. What is really missing is a ubiquitous... Source: almost 3 years ago

• Why is software always updating and why should I care?

  You can read more about in termite's github page, here: https://github.com/thestinger/termite. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Install termite while you still can if you are using Pi Zero. Everyone else, use Alacritty

  But the termite developer recently rage quit because of how GNOME was planning on using the next generation of VTE. I can't blame Stinger for what he did, more so since my goal with Perfect ALARM is to eschew GNOME and KDE/Qt as much as possible even though that's still not completely possible. Source: almost 3 years ago

• nautilus-open-any-terminal doesn't update termianl

  Now you have no excuse: https://github.com/thestinger/termite/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• [Guide] How I set up my gaming PC after fresh install of openSUSE Tumbleweed

  Termite will not be maintained anymore. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

  I tried a bunch of terminals and ended up switching from urxvt to termite https://github.com/thestinger/termite a few years back (mainly for it's better handling for refreshing certain curses style output). This might be the best recent overview of some of the pros and cons between some of the different options: https://anarc.at/blog/2018-04-12-terminal-emulators-1/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago