Can anyone do a simple config for the foot terminal?

Colin · 6 April 2023 20:10

Thanks for the info.

You got me curious so I had a look for some benchmarks, and here’s some:

DanteAlighierin/foot/blob/master/doc/benchmark.md

# Benchmarks

## vtebench

All benchmarks are done using [vtebench](https://github.com/alacritty/vtebench):

```sh
./target/release/vtebench -b ./benchmarks --dat /tmp/<terminal>
```

## 2022-05-12

### System

CPU: i9-9900

RAM: 64GB

Graphics: Radeon RX 5500XT

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It is apparently so fast because it uses Wayland’s method of putting data on-screen rather than the old Xorg method.

Your mention of images also got me curious as to whether foot could display Fastfetch like images like…

…because it’s fantastic eye candy.

It looks like it can when the hidden gem notcurses is used…

…notcurses isn’t restricted to the foot terminal, others such as Kitty can use it. The technical stuff is way over my head, but the results of its use speak for themselves.