Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed terminal

Re:Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed t... by hs86 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @10:21AM (#19476469)

The situation for terminal emulators is still bad on Windows.

Those web-based ones have no problems with fancy font features like powerline icons or ligatures but they still have a limitation when it comes to color support. [1] Fluent seems to be affected from this as well.

The other important feature for me is tmux with mouse support. To my knowledge, only WSLtty [2] does this right. It lacks support for font ligatures but I value a functional tmux more than some ligature eye candy.

I still hope that Microsoft will improve their own conhost.exe in further updates. Also, the upcoming 1903 update will improve the color support those web-based terminal emulators.

[1] https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1968

[2] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

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Re:Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed t... by bpye on Sunday March 24, 2019 @05:19PM (#19478841)

I tried out Alacritty [1] yesterday - it seems to work pretty well. It's the only one I've found so far that uses the new ConPty API. It's font rendering doesn't seem quite as nice as conhost though.

[1] - https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

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Re:Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed t... by trigoman on Monday March 25, 2019 @01:53AM (#19480563)

I didn't know about WSLtty! Thank you for the awareness, I've been using Hyper and have been hitting the tmux issues you listed.

It's noticeably faster and works great :)

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Re:Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed t... by l24ztj on Monday March 25, 2019 @05:55AM (#19481268)

wsltty is absolute crap. Not only it is very very slow with long lines or fast output, it also freezes often with applications that have GUIs like irssi.

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