I've done that before, just did so again now. There are a number of issues described with the various forks implementing ligatures. Please take the time to read through this very thread.
Alacritty is the first terminal which feels as fast and snappy as GLterm back in the day 😉 Vim, then ligatures “appear”.)Įdit: BTW, Alacritty is awesome! It reminds me of GLterm, which was my go-to terminal emulator back in the early 2000s (mentioned here, the official site at seems dead). Of course, if the same line used for input receives output from a program e.g. I suppose that it's easier to handle because it's not needed to backtrack and redraw the line where the cursor is to have ligatures applied during input:
Alacritty wsl code#
One terminal emulator that handles them quite well in my experience is Pangoterm, though I have not looked at the code to see whether it does something explicitly or it just delegates the task to Pango - anyway, leaving the link here as reference, in case it's useful to gather inspiration from its code.įor reference, the following screenshot shows an interesting behaviour of Pangoterm: ligatures are not handled in the lines/cells where used input is done, but only in the ones where output is shows. I went with VcXSrv since it looked like it was more actively maintained, but I tried both and they work the same.Support for ligatures would be indeed super nice. After researching, it seemed the two most popular options are:
Alacritty wsl windows 10#
To run an X Window application, I needed to have an X Server installed and running on my Windows 10 machine. That was way overkill for what I wanted to accomplish, but reading through the post I learned/realized that if I had an X Server running on Windows, I could use GUI Linux terminal emulators “natively” on Windows! That opened up a ton of possibilities, and one of my favorite Linux terminals, Terminator, was now a possibility! Installing an X Server When I was about to give up, I saw a post on Reddit about someone who got XFCE working on WSL Bash. What I realized in my search and multiple trials was there just wasn’t a good Windows terminal emulator. Not gonna cut it for me (though I still do use Cmder regularly for when I need to run Windows cmd.exe) Linux Terminal Emulators I could never get mouse mode to work (scrolling or selecting panes), and resizing windows was problematic. Unfortunately, when I started using Tmux it became a problem. The closest I got, and one that I used for a while was Cmder: Love this app for managing remote connections (e.g.
With the Windows Subystem for Linux (WSL) it’s now possible to have a “native” Ubuntu command line on my Windows 10 machine to use for my CLI nerdiness.
Alacritty wsl for mac#
I often feel like I just pay the premium for Mac hardware to have a reliable and easy to configure *Nix operating system.īut lately I’ve really been wanting to get off the Mac ecosystem and start using Windows 10 on my X1 Carbon as my daily machine. And using iTerm2 with oh-my-zsh is the best terminal experience I’ve ever had. Python and Node dev environments just work. With Homebrew, command line tools just work. While there’s nothing particularly special about MacOS that I love (in fact there’s quite a bit I don’t like), it’s honestly been the terminal and the underlying Unix based operating system that keep me glued to it.
Alacritty wsl driver#
I’ve been using a Mac as my daily driver for work for the last few years.
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