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I've used Apple's Terminal for a long time, way back when there was a set of color schemes called "Terminal Fructose" that was nice, I would have different colored backgrounds for different tasks. Apple at some point built that in with their themes.

However, Apple have languished with their Terminal support, they don't to >256 colors and some of the other more modern stuff is lacking and it doesn't really work with a Neovim+LazyVim setup.

I've been trying to find a "better" terminal and have bounced around between iTerm2, Kitty, Alacritty and Wezterm, but while they all are more "modern", I find that none of them seem to have that basic "New Window with Profile ..." option that lets me quickly open windows with different background colors/themes (at least without some screwing around).

Currently settled on Wezterm, mostly because it also works on Windows and I can share my wezterm.lua configuration (I should note that Windows Terminal is actually pretty good too). I still do find my self running Apple Terminal for quick things (e.g. using python3 as a REPL to do math or testing hex/binary stuff out etc).

parent lsllc 2 years ago

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