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Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by greggh on Monday November 03, 2025 @01:55PM (#45802816)
People still use WezTerm when we have Kitty and Ghostty? Can you explain why? I'm actually interested to know what would make someone make that choice.
Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by pneumic on Monday November 03, 2025 @02:37PM (#45803422)
Wezterm is actually programmable. I am looking to drop Kitty as it intentionally offers minimal tmux support and the text rendering options that made it superior for me are being deprecated.

Until Ghostty offers the scriptability found in wezterm and kitty (e.g., hit a keybind, spawn a new terminal and execute a font picker script), I am trying out wezterm, which is pretty great, but renders fonts too thin by default. I stare at this thing eight hours a day so text rendering is super important.

Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by bbkane on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @12:00AM (#45807569)
I had some issues with Wezterm fonts - I was able to configure it away: https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/tree/master/wezterm#fixed...
Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by alwillis on Monday November 03, 2025 @02:13PM (#45803114)
> People still use WezTerm when we have Kitty and Ghostty?

Very customizable and extensible using Lua. Extensive documentation, native ssh support and built-in multiplexing.

Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by sigmonsays on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:48PM (#45806341)
I prefer WezTerm over ghosttty and kitty.

I prefer it's UI and level of customization.

Ghostty animations run like crap for me on linux (not sure why).

Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by bbkane on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @12:03AM (#45807578)
Folks have responded about WezTerm's programmability being the reason they like it, but if you don't mind I'd like to flip the question around: why do you prefer Kitty or Ghostty to WezTerm?
Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by qart on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @01:35AM (#45807995)
I have them all installed, but I use WezTerm most often because it is fastest to give me a window when I hit the assigned shortcut key. Ghostty is a hair slower. Kitty takes 2-3 seconds. I keep launching terminals pretty frequently, so this matters to me a lot. The only other feature that it must have is truecolor.