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Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend?
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Kitty if you have a GPU and run programs that have a lot of output (build scripts and emerge). It uses the GPU for better performance.
kitty is great, for me it's similar to mpv: it does what it's supposed to do, no fluff. Just straight up performance.
Kitty is great until you SSH into a machine where it's not installed and try to use tmux or some other commandline apps
@flashgnash @Laser Connecting once with its ssh kitten resolves this by uploading appropriate terminfo files to the user's directory.
I didn't realise it was only once you had to use it
@flashgnash Yep, just once to transfer the terminfo files and resolve this.
The SSH kitten is pretty useful though. If you use it in combination with kitty's --single-instance mode, you can start new kitty windows in the same SSH session without logging in again using its shared connection feature. Hugely convenient for how I work at least.
I have used it for that feature before, is there not a concern around defense in depth there though? If you've got a rogue program running could it not then hijack your ssh connection and infect that machine as well?
If it's a machine you have control over you can install the terminfo. Or setting the TERM variable to something like xterm-256color when connecting, that usually works, though I haven't tried with tmux.
I usually just change TERM to xterm but I've heard that isn't a good way to do it
Also I'd rather not install stuff on every server I ssh into, I've installed it on test servers but wouldn't want to do it on prod
I've never had issues with TERM=xterm