Linux Terminal Memory Usage
I use terminals a lot. On most machines, I have anywhere from five to ten of them open across one to four desktops (there are 12 terminals open on two desktops on the machine I'm writing on). Having started using Linux in 1996, I used xterm because it was the baseline. I found rxvt around 1998 and used that for a few years. I'm not sure how it went from there, but about three years ago I was mostly using lxterminal but switched to alacritty because it did most things right and worked in both X11 and Wayland (I'm stuck between those two worlds). However, a little less than a year ago I discovered kitty which was very appealing because it ticked the same boxes as alacritty but also supported pixel-perfect rendering of photos IN THE TERMINAL (using timg - https://github.com/hzeller/timg) ... which is very handy when you're SSHed to a remote web server. I switched most of my machines to...