if you like opening links with letters like that you should look into vim extensions on browsers (you dont have really need to know kuch vim) but boy oh boy you will never go back to normal browsing again
I was using a tiling window manager. So I have a shortcut to open up my terminal emulator, and the tiling window manager will split the remaining portion of the screen for me.
Nice, I see a lot of people migrating to Wayland, I have not researched it too much yet, what are the benefits of Wayland? Why is it gaining so much steam?
Good question. I don't have a good answer. I don't know enough about window servers/compositors. My experience on Wayland has been very similar to my experience on X. One interesting thing is that on X you can choose a compositor (like Picom), whereas on Wayland the compositor is built in. A lot of things have broken for me when switching to Wayland. I couldn't recommend it yet.
I switched to Wayland six months ago. The biggest things for me are the sheer speed and smoothness. I experience absolutely zero screen tearing or stuttering, which plagued me on X11. I can run my three monitors at three different resolutions, scales, and frame rates without any issues. Hot plugging new displays and enabling them is completely seamless. It's just magical. It's not without flaws, though. For instance, you cannot have global hotkeys (yet) - if a window is not focused, it has zero access to your input. New protocols are added excruciatingly slowly because the developers think through absolutely EVERYTHING before merging them. It also just does not play nice with NVIDIA cards, though that may change soon now that NVIDIA has gotten off their high horse.
Recently switched from X to Wayland (not on purpose, because I wanted to try out Gnome). On X I had to edit a config file (messed up a few times which was a pain couldn't even boot in normally had to fix it in a tty) in order to set an option to turn off screen tearing for my Intel i5. Even after doing this I still had some screen tearing, although to be fair this is an old laptop (thinkpad t430); I didn't notice any screen tearing on my higher end pc. However after switching to Wayland there was no screen tearing at all. I also hear that the system is more modern internally and better made yada yada but I am a noob who doesn't know all these details.
Ok i tried it today with img2sixel, and i am switching over fom alacritty for now (although pains me because alacritty is such a cool name while foot is a little... meh)! Its blazing fast and actually converted pictures display rather fast!
Oh yea boiii wayland! So its fast opening, which is great, thats one thing that kitty is a little bit behind both foot and alactritty (it must be milliseconds but its noticeable to me). It also has images in terminal, which i found alacritty doesnt handle as gracefully as kitty does. But you say it is a bit slow (the images), and it did seem so, right? You think there is way to make this feature more responsive? Also thanks for the videos, my favorite linux ytuber on the internet (beating even DT, aw yis).
Give DT some time; you'll see they're a horrible person. Just an example: They heavily promoted Manjaro for over a year while deleting 'negative' comments about it. I hope Microsoft sues them for their ridiculous conspiracy theory nonsense as well. edit: what are your thoughts on Wezterm now that the major bug was fixed?
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. In terms of speeding up the image... probably just use a smaller image. ha ha I don't really use my terminal to show display images day to day, so it hasn't been an issue thus far.
@@tomontheinternet Yea, so i have been using foot still. You can actually just preconvert images to sixels and save them in fixed width. For me -w 400 makes displaying them crazy fast, and i love it! Its really cool, thanks for showcasing this. I think i am making a permanent switch now hehehe. The inly thing that pains me is the lack of vim mode for scrollback, visual and such, but tmux i guess.
