contour

Those two are already balanced by Zutty and Rio. So let's have a look around at some of the emulators that make using the GPU a marketing point. DarkTile (https://github.com/liamg/darktile) accepts TTF and OTF, so presumably if you can get your bitmap font of choice converted into those formats you are alright. GhosTTY (https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty) gained proper bitmap font support just last month, the issues list says, but is reliant upon what FreeType and CoreText can handle. It has an open issue discussing those vis-a-vis bitmap fonts. Trap2 (https://github.com/tale/trap2) likewise relies upon FreeType. Contour (https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour) at least appears to have bitmap font support. Alacritty, WezTerm, and Kitty get a lot of mentions in the issues list.

try the new alternatives [0] https://github.com/raphamorim/rio [1] https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour

Another problem is that the cursor moves while the screen is buffer is being rendered. The location is only really known once the cursor settles in the same place for some time, which is unacceptable in terms of latency. The synchronized output extension could be used to do this, though. https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/blob/master/docs...

> In comparaison I have to add that the rendering in more defined in Urxvt that Contour even after tinkering, Nothing is perfect. Many thanks for trying though. If you don't mind, maybe you could file a report in github.com/contour-terminal/contour/issues/ such that we know about it, can track it, and also, report back to you, once it's improved? Generally speaking, it's hard to say that rendering is that bad, because we simply use FreeType for glyph rasterization as well as Harfbuzz for text shaping. That doesn't mean it's perfect. I know that not everybody likes lcd subpixel rendering in Contour, and that anti-aliasing (AA) methods are generally highly subjective on what the best AA method is. We implement multiple such that most users should find what they like the most. If that still doesn't fit, I'd like to know about it, so we can h

https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/issues/382 This apparently does not support the Kitty graphics protocol, just Sixel, which makes it look fairly unattractive to me, personally.

Looks nice, but seeming lack of tabs support (https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/issues/90) makes it a hard sell for me.

You should try some modern terminals fx.: - Contour https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour - Wezterm https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ Both fast terminals with modern features and cross platform. Also checkout Notcurses: https://notcurses.com/ Here is a video of the Notcurses demo running in a terminal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY

If you code in Java, and like TUI (console type applications), then you might enjoy Jexer: https://gitlab.com/klamonte/jexer I started Jexer in 2013, and off-and-on it's gotten better. I think my favorite part has been crossing paths with other terminal emulator ecosystem folks over the last few years. This release brings a few prettified effects inspired by other projects that you are all hopefully quite familiar with (notcurses, chafa, and vtm): * Translucent windows, including images under/over each other and text. * Animated/pulsing text * Animated gifs * A new XtermVideoPlayer example that uses ffmpeg/JavaCV to play movies inside a text-draggable window. (No audio though.) * New button styles: round, diamond, left/right arrows. The button ends and shadows are drawn with images so specific font support is not required. * A _much_

contour? https://github.com/christianparpart/contour