About that xiate story yesterday.
Writing xiate might not have been the worst thing after all. For
starters, I couldn't find an actual alternative. The closest thing to
xiate would be taterm[1], I guess. If I'm not mistaken, it lacks some
important features, though, such as launching programs other than your
shell, e.g. "taterm -e vim".
That client-server model is not that bad, either. I was curious and
removed it. Yes, without UIM installed, it launches fast enough. But
the memory footprint is massive. Open a bunch of terminals and memory
usage easily goes up by a few hundred megabytes. That's reason enough
for me to keep that mode (taterm has it, too).
There's a bunch of VTE terminals, but they are all either big and
clunky or hard to configure. Or they are unmaintained.
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https://github.com/t-8ch/taterm/
