After having used st as my main terminal for a while now:
- Most things work just like in xiate, but I did patch st heavily. Took quite some time to do this, but it was also fun, so it was worth it.
- st uses much less memory than xiate (12-20 MB for st, 40 MB+ for xiate) ā but way more CPU time. š
When I move another window on top of an st window (so that st has to do a lot of redraws), the CPU spikes so much that my whole X server begins to stutter.
- Thereās no point in denying it: Font rendering is way better in xiate, because it can use the whole GTK-Pango-Whatever stuff. Thatās a lot of code and could arguably be viewed as ābloatā, but the results are also better. Font stuff is not trivial, itās inherently complex.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de So are you switching back then? Wasting RAM rather than CPU load is the lesser of the two evils in my book. At least in summer. :-)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Iām going back and forth at the moment, canāt make up my mind. š Exactly, Iād rather waste RAM than CPU cycles in this case. Battery lifetime suffers, heat goes up, ā¦