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I use Foot as my terminal and Niri as my WM. It’s a great combo. Niri handles splits for me, and I don’t need tabs. I also turn off all window decorations, so my terminal content gets 100% of the terminal’s screen real estate-- so I don't need a native UI. All that said, it looks like Ghosty can be configured to match this setup, so I’ll give it a try. I just wanted to mention Foot to anyone who is running Linux. Foot is a simple, focused project.

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I am a happy foot user and I am considering switching from Sway to Niri. What has been your experience with Niri? One thing that concerns me about Niri is that it is not wlroots based. This means that many tools I accustomed to don't work with Niri. Do you have some dedicated tools for screen sharing, screen recording, screen printing, multi-monitor management, ...?

I absolutely love Niri. It has a built-in screen capture which is good enough for me. Screensharing works fine from Firefox (which is where I do all of my video conferencing). I stopped using multiple screens a long time ago, but I do occasionally hook my laptop up to my TV, and that works out of the box. Though, for stuff like that, I might log into to a Gnome + PaperWM session simply because I don’t remember how to fiddle with things, and I’m not generally trying to optimize for my workflow when I’m giving a live talk or watching TV.

What I like about foot is the heuristics governing text selection with the mouse. I find that more often than not, if I double click with the mouse on some text, what it ends up selecting is just the part I need.

I actually have to fight this feature a lot, but I appreciate what it's trying to do. For me the issue is I'm often trying to triple click to select full IRC lines and it keeps only selecting parts of the line because the person had put some quotes in part of what they said, and the selection "smartly" will only select the area between two quotes, even if those quotes were the ending of a pair on the left and start of a pair on the right, aka not even truly quoted text is being selected, but all the un-quoted text between two pairs of quoted text. The solution is to click a different spot, usually the timestamp is the safest, but I find I naturally drift toward the far right side of the terminal for selecting lines, or sometimes somewhere in the middle.

Is it weird that I never considered foot because of the name? At least when you say "alacritty" i understand that it's a terminal. When I tell someone I use "foot"... I don't know, it doesn't give a good feeling.

What about when you tell someone you "cat" a file or use "sudo"? Who cares what normies think?

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