hey chat, how long do you think it would take for me to configure kitty?

[green@mk.absturztau.be]

hey chat, how long do you think it would take for me to configure kitty?

[mir@ice.ch3.st]

@green@mk.absturztau.be the config file is very nice if you open in vim, probably a chill 30min

[green@mk.absturztau.be]

@mir@ice.ch3.st wow, kitty is the first program in which the compose key straight up doesn't work...

[mir@ice.ch3.st]

@green@mk.absturztau.be hm definitely check in its keyboard settings. iirc it does its own special modifier handling or something

[green@mk.absturztau.be]

@mir@ice.ch3.st also it's somehow 5 times slower than what i have...

[green@mk.absturztau.be]

@mir@ice.ch3.st

Performance
The main goals for kitty performance are user perceived latency while typing and “smoothness” while scrolling as well as CPU usage. kitty tries hard to find an optimum balance for these.

i guess they did not consider startup time to be an important metric. the terminal is like the only program that gets opened and closed on a regular basis...

[green@mk.absturztau.be]

@mir@ice.ch3.st okay fine, that issue is solved by using -1 and running it as a daemon. almost. i think the first window becomes real, but if you close all the kitties, we're back to 300ms startups...

[green@mk.absturztau.be]

@mir@ice.ch3.st there also seems to be a bunch of controversy over the author allegedly being an asshole

[oli@mastodon.hermitcollective.net]

@green @mir i wonder if foot works on xorg at all