More fun in the terminal with Wezterm!

Wezterm is a my new favorite terminal emulator. It's been fun to create some customizations for it using the lua programming language. In this video, I'll show you how I swap out background images, fonts, and color schemes using lua. I'll also show you a tip for how to get rid of the notch if you have a MacBook.
Check out the blog post with more details:
www.joshmedeski.com/posts/mor...

[@JoshMedeski]

What's your favorite terminal emulator, let me know!

[@arabshaptukaev4348]

Hi Josh(@joshmedeski)) have you tried Warp Terminal? What do you think about it and why did you choose wezterm over Warp?

[@mentalmarvin]

Konsole. I love these kinds of short to-the-point videos than hours long streams.

[@JoshMedeski]

@@arabshaptukaev4348 warp has some cool features but it’s too opinionated for me.

[@NavyDevy]

Hi Josh, tried kitty terminal? I think it's pretty good, what you think about that?

[@JoshMedeski]

@@NavyDevy I have used kitty. It is very performant and has lots of similar features to Wezterm, I know lots of people who enjoy it

[@hotdog2c]

The fact that i can customize both my editor and terminal in lua is really great!

[@gregpetrov6919]

Thanks! So cool you make blog posts along with KZbin videos.

[@JoshMedeski]

You bet!

[@Emily-xl8qw]

Agree, i hate to watch a 10 minute video to just figure 1 thing out, but if im interested in all of the article, i have trouble reading it all

[@ascourter]

Great video Josh! I'll have to give it a try, especially since I can use Lua for config!

[@typecraft_dev]

wezterm looks great I'll have to check this out!

[@barbiefan3874]

on Linux in hyprland you can set xray option which will render all transparent regions as if there was nothing behind them, only wallpapers

[@bombrman1994]

Also I like to yoink the idea from windows wallpapers auto rotation. I would like to make it automatically rotate the wallpapers on given intervals

[@atipuginhere]

I've also moved from iTerm to Wezterm recently, much smoother experience imo

[@voiceoftreason1760]

I wonder why the landing page still only says it runs on win10 and doesn't mention win11

[@chandraprakashdarji]

Just wanna know who you placed your camera video in background of windows?

[@jgchristopher]

I love the PARA usage!

[@rocchan8887]

How is the emoji 👉put current line of your neovim, is it an autocmd? can you share your configuration?

[@JoshMedeski]

It's called smooth cursor, here's my config github.com/joshmedeski/dotfiles/blob/e9b8892c1049074bac0d4488ecd80deeb9103c9e/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/smooth-cursor.lua#L6

[@bstar777777]

Interesting video, but switching just for backgrounds and theming are kind of shallow reasons... what about performance, scrollback search, window splits, tabs?, tmux integration, bitmap fonts?, integration with zsh/fish, etc?

[@007arek]

Wezterm is similar to kitty, great performance with advanced features. I believe it has everything, I don't know what fish and tmux integration are you expect. It has their own session manager.

[@JoshMedeski]

I made this video to call out why Wezterm is different. It's GPU powered so I get all the same benefits as terminal emulators as Kitty and Alacritty but some "fun" additions using lua.

[@JoshMedeski]

I use tmux for now, but I've heard good things about both Wezterm and Kitty's session management tooling.

[@bstar777777]

@@JoshMedeski I've been diving in and seeing how it performs vs Kitty. I just came to the realization that I have a bunch of workflows that are Kitty specific. It's making it hard to switch on a whim, but I'm having fun figuring things out. Not sure I will ultimately switch, but it's nice to know what else is out there.

[@michal1693]

Im using linux. wezterm is my opengl terminal of choice (alacrity and kitty being alternatives) because it offers scrolling side bar. I still like to use mouse.

[@JoshMedeski]

I use tmux which has decent mouse support, but built-in support is always nice.

[@ii7mdj_353]

Hey dude awesome video! Keep it up 🫡

[@JoshMedeski]

Thanks! Will do!

[@codeman99-dev]

My favorite? Windows Terminal!

[@ravipratapmishra7013]

Recently a bug appears in yabai for where if an unmanaged window is present over a managed app(in yabai) then even if i toggle to the managed app via alt_tab then in that case also the unmanaged window will remain on top of the manage one even though managed one is in focus i mean if you perform any action say press space when browser is the managed app when pressing space key it will scroll browser page though the unmanage windowe is on top of managed window.

[@JoshMedeski]

Yeah, I have stopped using yabai. I’ve got a video coming out on why early next year!

[@ravipratapmishra7013]

@@JoshMedeski what are you using now?

[@giedi7644]

apparently the dreadful stage manager@@ravipratapmishra7013

[@stevedylandev]

Gonna have to at least give it another go!

[@JustMyTwoCentz]

How can i run wezterm as default terminal in debian and how can i autostart tmux when opening wezterm ? In gnome-terminal i have it so that opening my terminal opens and ressurects my tmux sessions (saved ones). Any help :)?

[@theherk]

Could be done in your shell by detecting an interactive session then launching tmux if not running. Then it wouldn’t be tied to the terminal emulator you use. But wezterm does have a spawn api that would let you do this too. Best of all, it has built in muxing so you don’t even need tmux.

[@JustMyTwoCentz]

@@theherk thanks for your reply ! Do you have this set up in your shell ? I have some script going, but can't really share it here, i managed to make wez open my resurrect/tmux sessions with it, so i guess it's working somewhat, just wanted to see different approaches :) I know about wez' built-in functionality of multiplexing, i just didn't get into it as of now and wanted to port my tmux setup first :)

[@donparker4584]

Windows swears that the installation Wezterm file is not kosher. And virustotal says it's life-threatening....

[@Fullflexno]

This Channel is so slept on!

[@JoshMedeski]

More to come!

[@klaudioz_]

Can I use it with visor mode on Mac?

[@JoshMedeski]

I haven’t heard of visor mode. Try and let us know if it works for you

[@AdventuresOfPepero]

it has lots of problems on windows. last version crashes ony machine.

[@lemonmango8]

Hey! At 3:28 you mention someone and their animated wezterm configuration. But I couldn't quite understand the name / find their KZbin Channel (Nick Nici?). Would be awesome if you could link them!

[@JoshMedeski]

Here’s the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/r53VaZuXeMuMqZIsi=_ThtEaMXFr6wRPaF

[@lemonmango8]

@@JoshMedeski thanks so much for the quick reply! Also looking forward to your video on what you're using now instead of yabai, if you're still planning to make it. I've also switched off from yabai because i found it too inconsistent and slow, to just using Stage Manager with a few keybindings, and I'm speculating that you might be running a similar setup these days, but curious to see in more detail! Cheers!

[@JoshMedeski]

​@@lemonmango8 thanks, that video is coming later next month!

[@phonglenus]

Can you give me the video link duol at 3.38 seconds?

[@JoshMedeski]

Check out the blog post in the description

[@umka7536]

I tried WezTerm but its font rendering quality is not what I expected.

[@JoshMedeski]

Fair enough, I’ve had a few issues with font rendering as well

[@laughingvampire7555]

be careful the suckless mob will come for you

[@danielstellmon5330]

I use Terminator. I don't do a lot of configuration on my terminal so I don't see much of a reason to switch.

[@JoshMedeski]

If it ain't broke 🫡

[@khanra17]

I switched from wez term because its a hugeeee bloat now.

[@theherk]

It’s like 35MB. What was added that you considered bloat?

[@user-vf5bm6vr8e]

I dumped my girlfriend for Wezterm

[@naranyala_dev]

try Contour terminal

[@BarryBazzawillWilliams]

🦶