contour-terminal/contour
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Modern C++ Terminal Emulator
11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2022-02-03 · latest 2025-10-01
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…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…
comment by JdeBP · 2025-10-01 · in Rio Terminal: A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator -
try the new alternatives [0] https://github.com/raphamorim/rio [1] https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour
comment by naranyala · 2024-05-22 · in Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator -
…in terms of latency. The synchronized output extension could be used to do this, though. https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/blob/master/docs...
comment by zamalek · 2024-02-01 · in Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim -
…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?…
comment by trapnii · 2023-10-09 · in Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator -
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.
comment by Conscat · 2023-10-08 · in Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator -
Looks nice, but seeming lack of tabs support ( https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/issues/90 ) makes it a hard sell for me.
comment by cmrdporcupine · 2023-10-08 · in Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator -
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:…
comment by k4r1 · 2022-07-18 · in WordPerfect for UNIX (1992) -
…that are known to work include: * xterm https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ - X11 - Linux * contour https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour - OpenGL - Linux, OS/X, Windows * foot https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot - Wayland - Linux, OS/X,…
comment by AutumnMeowMeow · 2022-02-03 · in Show HN: Java TUI framework with sixel image support