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Was looking for a terminal that can render LazyVim. It's looking like Alacritty (definitely not ghostty).

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

there's also wezterm if you want more features.

[–] PlexSheep 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

kitty has two problems, one is called kovid goyal, and the other, kovid goyal having been one-shotted by the autoconfabulators.

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

My problem with kitty is, it didn't work for the languages I use, and when I complained the dev said he doesn't care about non-European languages. Alacritty works well for Japanese for me, including input methods, but sadly not for Arabic or other bidi.

[–] PlexSheep 1 points 1 hour ago

It works for japanese with an IME. What specifically are you missing?

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 1 points 4 hours ago

mmhm, and I understand this is generally a problem with terminal emulators and complex scripts.

again, wezterm's author is very amenable to improve this.

i don't know how well does the support look like now, but i remember that wez furlong put quite an amount of work to have the visual representation of indic scripts be less painful, for example.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

why's that name familiar? calibre?

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 13 hours ago
[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 3 points 15 hours ago