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Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

16 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 2 stories, 14 comments · first 2014-11-26 · latest 2023-10-09

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  1. …for a more complete look of what you can do with the keyboard (normal mode) :) [1] https://github.com/thestinger/termite/
    comment by trapnii · 2023-10-09 · in Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator
  2. …GNOME and potentially break all software dependent on it that are not part of GNOME (e.g [1]). 1.: https://github.com/thestinger/termite
    comment by sprash · 2023-02-23 · in KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop
  3. …of alacritty as well so I can't even switch back (I mean I could, but it's now unmaintained.) [0] https://github.com/thestinger/termite
    comment by mijoharas · 2022-11-27 · in What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
  4. Sounds like https://github.com/thestinger/termite , the vte-ng issue, the https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658 issue which goes as far back as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78291 . Yes that is 2002, over 20 years…
    comment by vfclists · 2022-07-31 · in Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That’s Not a Good Thing
  5. …and experience tells a different story [1]. Never trust a library that is maintained by GNOME. 1.: https://github.com/thestinger/termite
    comment by sprash · 2022-01-13 · in Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
  6. …sums up why getting involved in VTE, or any GNOME project for that matter, is a bad decision. > > https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/master/README.rst... Wow, this confirms a lot of my impressions: >> In 2012, we submitted a tiny…
    comment by csdvrx · 2021-10-05 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
  7. …much sums up why getting involved in VTE, or any GNOME project for that matter, is a bad decision. https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/master/README.rst... I'm just a random spectator but perhaps your efforts might've been better…
    comment by _2paq · 2021-10-05 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
  8. …changes happening to VTE. Here's another explanation why VTE based terminals are best avoided. https://github.com/thestinger/termite Here's a complete list. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications#VTE-ba...
    comment by _2paq · 2021-10-05 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
  9. …ttps://ubuntu-mate.community/t/horrible-gtk3-gnome-ui-desig... And then you have the terminal Termite https://github.com/thestinger/termite This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their hostility towards other projects using VTE as…
    comment by tored · 2021-06-16 · in Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
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    Use Alacritty instead of Termite
    story by polm23 · 2021-05-07 · 323 comments
  11. I tried a bunch of terminals and ended up switching from urxvt to termite https://github.com/thestinger/termite a few years back (mainly for it's better handling for refreshing certain curses style output). This might be the best recent…
    comment by lhl · 2021-04-03 · in Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
  12. …least on MacOS. On Linux I was very happy with Termite which fit my keyboard-centric linux style https://github.com/thestinger/termite
    comment by dmix · 2020-10-01 · in Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
  13. He's also the author of Termite[0]. Pretty impressive how many projects he's been involved with. [0] https://github.com/thestinger/termite
    comment by CaptainBern · 2019-06-10 · in GrapheneOS – A privacy and security-focused mobile OS with Android compatibility
  14. termite https://github.com/thestinger/termite https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/termite
    comment by jryan49 · 2017-08-11 · in Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
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    Termite: a keyboard-centric terminal for tiling window managers
    story by chrissnell · 2017-02-14 · 0 comments
  16. …If you are using xterm, urxvt, or something similar, I would highly suggest giving it a try. [1] https://github.com/thestinger/termite
    comment by farresito · 2014-11-26 · in St – simple terminal