Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by suyjuris 1140 days ago
> but it's not an order of magnitude faster than any other GPU accelerated terminal

It is [0,1]. Have you tried it? Up to individual preference, of course, but for me it does feel a lot better.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/

[1] https://danluu.com/term-latency/

1 comments

I did, it's noticeable, but not enough for me to switch from the convenience of nice antialiasing and desktop integration.

I use Black Box [1] from Flatpak because it has great design and smart copy (Ctrl-C does both copy and SIGINT depending on the context), which is more important to me than shaving a few ms latency. These days a lot of terminal work is done with `eat` from Emacs [2], which is even slower than Blackbox.

1: https://flathub.org/apps/com.raggesilver.BlackBox

2: https://akib.codeberg.page/blog/introducing-eat.html

xterm has anti aliasing