Hi R0b0t1, On 04/25 02:15, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:47 AM, <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > currently I am using urxvt as my standard terminal > > application, which is FAST and reliable. > > But it only emulates 24bit colors if instructed so. > > It maps 24bit rgb to 256 color using a fast but not > > total correct formula to to do (which is no critism - > > its just the way ot is implemented). > > > > I suppose you have seen https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728, but if > not, I will link it for you. Anyone following along who hasn't read it > might be inclined to do so.
Yes, I found that before. It triggers my post here and asking for experiences... ;) > > > I googled qyite a bit to find 24color terminal > > emulators and the one, which came closer to > > what I want is sakure. > > But comparing the speed of sakura with urxvt > > (catting a long log file twice while measureing the time > > of the second cat) it shows that sakura needs > > six times more time than urxvt. > > > > Combining this with the compile sessions, which > > are one of the core features of Gentoo ;)))... > > > > I would suggest looking at: > *) https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty > *) https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty I tried alacritty before ... or better: I tried to solve all dependencies and stopped at a certain point because it got all too ... how should I call that.... fuzzy? Kitty needs python3 ... I am on python2. Last time I got in conflict with these pythons I finally had to decide to reinstall my Gentoo from ground up (others things were also a reason, so not to blame python alone). So I stopped here also. > > Both of which are OpenGL accelerated. Unfortunately I'm not entirely > sure why sakura is slow. Finding out might be worthwhile. Alacritty is > the shiniest, but unfortunately the rust build and setup process looks > very insecure, similar to Haskell. Take into account that those > languages are experimental. I tried xfce4-terminal as suggested by Floyd...and got exactly the reversed timings. He found xfce4-terminal six times faster than urxvt and I got the reversed result. If I could find the culprit on my box I would be happy with sakura and/or xfve4-terminal. Where can I start? What may be the reasons? > > What I want is the "fastest" possible (...) > > terminal emulator supporting true color (24bit). > > I dont need fancy configuring options (two exception: > > TABS! and lightweighted) and I dont want KDE stuff (or > > any other bloated thing with thousands of dependencies...) > > I am simply using openbox. > > > > Tabs are probably a stretch though I admit they are a useful feature. I dont like to insert just another layer of confusion ;) with my terminal like screen of tmux. They are fine for in special cases but for my daily tabbed terminal I would like to have native support rigth in the terminal emulator. > I would recommend that if you find a Desktop Environment that has a > program you like you simply use it though the look may clash with your > other programs. It's hard enough to find programs that do what you > want on Linux. I have no problems with the 'optical clash'. But I don want to pull in dozenz of dependencies (KDE) just for a terminal emultor. These will also increase the amount of stuff which needs to be updated... > > What are your experiences? > > > > Nothing really seems to do what I want, and that may translate into > nothing really doing what you want. ...or in other words: I need to find the reason, why some terminal emulators are slow on my box and not on others... > > Any hint is heartly welcome! Thanks ! > > > > Cheers > > Meino > > > > PS: The terminal emulator dont need to be part > > of Gentoo necessarily...if it is compilable > > by a human being withoyt super powers... ;) > > > > Check the list on that gist - may as well keep trying them until you > find one that you like. To prevent exactly that was the reason for asking for experiences others made with terminal emulators. Blindly following the compile-install-test-desinstall cycle with applications listed somewhere is not efficient. Cheers Meino
