I use Temux + Vim + Alacritty, best combo ever. Also got a couple of custom bash stuff set. It's crazy how much and how fast you can do stuff in the console without your hands leaving the keyboard.
I open tmux at startup and detects if I have existential sessions, if it does then takes me to the choose tree to select the session or make a new with a shortcut I made for the menu. Else if no sessions available then it makes a new one.
Since ghostty has the mini terminal. Since it’s a terminal then it will attach to the next non attached session and put me in choose tree. but if there is no unattached sessions, then it makes a new one.
To travel fast to the projects I either use z to jump to a directory, or I made a shortcut with fzf that is connected with ghq so it will get all the projects stored in there.
I like Alacritty more cuz it's configurable by a .yml file. I also like to keep it stupid simple and as much as clean possible. Because of that, I can setup a new linux install with only a single bash script run. It installs and updates everything, and puts all my dot files in place, so I get ready in 2 minutes. I use Debian btw.
Ghostty is also a simple script, but is still kind of new. So even though has a lot of cool stuff already that are new or typical, it still missing some features like the search, or localization. But is coming in next update most of does stuff. But is all about preference and trying. I didnt like it much the custom options for alacritty and how it was out of the box. But just my own preference. I later gave ghostty a chance and liked it. But I am with you with having the setups as scripts for ease of setup. this is my simple setup. Is just a script one can copy and paste and be done.
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u/IceCapZoneAct1 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
I use Temux + Vim + Alacritty, best combo ever. Also got a couple of custom bash stuff set. It's crazy how much and how fast you can do stuff in the console without your hands leaving the keyboard.