On Sun Nov 03, 2024 at 19:41,  <prowess-alarm-much@duck.com> wrote:
> On Fri 01.11.2024 at 19:52 CET, Bruno Garcez de Lencastre wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 19:39, Bence Ferdinandy
>> r/TIL and thanks for sharing your dotfile.
>>
>> Anyways... I tried this and I noticed no visual change. But I did see
>> a significant change between
>> stylesets. Different stylesets generate different and sizeable
>> rendering glitches.
>>
>> I've decided to incrementally customize the styleset starting as bare
>> bones as possible
>> to see which changes start generating artifacts. Will report... it's
>> not a dealbreaker but so far
>> I am quite impressed with aerc's powerful capabilities.
>
> Update: instead of running the Win11 alacritty binary (currently v0.14),
> I've instead configured the linux binary v0.13.2 using the same
> configuration toml file as I have for the Windows version. The
> other difference is the launch command which is now:
>
> "C:\Program Files\WSL\wslg.exe" -d <distro> --cd "~" -u <user> -- alacritty
>
> I've not seen a single visual glitch.
>
> I hope this thread may help others who also experience these issues.

Wslg gives you native linux (no conpty) which is really great. The only
downside is that wslg windows are not windows native, i.e. border snapping and
all that don't work, make not-so-great Windows window handling downright
terrible ... This can be worked around by using an X server installed in
Windows and not using WSLg, but I've never got around to trying that out.

I know of one alternative way of bypassing conpty, by using a Windows native
ssh client that happens to support fancy terminal stuff and running an ssh
server on in WSL. It so happens wezterm and contour
(https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour) are such ssh clients. That
actually works pretty fine, and you get native Windows windows.

>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> PS: I've tried wezterm, but gave up midway through the configuration,
> it's too much... like kitty. I did stumble on foot (another terminal)
> and this one work nearly from the get go without any graphical gliches.
> However since all three experiences were launched using wslg.exe I think
> they should all work. Now it's just pick your poison.

I also don't like wezterm too much in honesty ... On Linux I 100% use contour,
it's a bit less stable on Windows, which why I sometimes run wezterm, but it's
getting better. You could maybe try that out also. Ofc is you don't mind the
windowing thing running anything with wslg is the best option.

Best,
Bence

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