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st with tmux is pretty great. Just about the lowest input latency you're likely to find on Linux, AFAIK, and tmux means you need few or no patches to st to have
by spanhandler 6y ago
st with tmux is pretty great. Just about the lowest input latency you're likely to find on Linux, AFAIK, and tmux means you need few or no patches to st to have a full-featured term. Not as low-latency as Mac terminal, but then again I don't know of a Linux terminal emulator that is.
- nickjj 6y agoThe last time I tried st the input latency was quite a bit more than xterm. Noticeable enough to feel the difference when opening them side by side and typing normally. xterm is really as good as it gets if you want a buttery smooth typing experience.
- mrob 6y agoKitty can match xterm's latency while having better throughput. The only drawback is the forced anti-aliasing, but that's easily patched out (in freetype.c, change the last line of get_load_flags() to "return base | FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME | FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO;")
- pxc 6y ago> Not as low-latency as Mac terminal, but then again I don't know of a Linux terminal emulator that is. Hmm. Am I tripping? Would you mind installing Konsole on macOS via Homebrew and telling me whether latency still seems that way to you?