How To Create An Epic, Simple & Fast Terminal Setup With Wezterm

In this video I show you how to use Wezterm to create a simple, amazing, fast and feature-rich terminal setup to level up your workflow! After posting my video on Alacritty, a lot of you recommended that I try out Wezterm and I love it! Hope you enjoy the video!

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⏰ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - Install wezterm
01:23 - Install git
01:31 - Install nerd font
02:07 - Create config file
03:31 - Font & font size
04:55 - Tab bar
05:31 - Window decorations
06:22 - Color scheme
06:49 - Opacity/Background blur
07:46 - Neovim Transparency
08:31 - Setup powerlevel10k
10:05 - Autosuggestions & highlighting
10:35 - Better history completion
12:00 - Better ls & cd
13:44 - Setup tmux
15:34 - Conclusion

[joseanmartinez]

Hey guys! Hope you enjoy the video! Remember to use whatever works best for you, be it Wezterm, Alacritty, iTerm2 or something else. This setup is very similar to my Alacritty setup and I've defaulted to it because Wezterm feels more complete in its features set (like controlling the amount of blur on a transparent window) & the configuration being written in lua. Thanks for letting me know about this awesome terminal emulator!

[Eyad]

Wow i just got wezterm two days ago after getting into neovim as well, this is like perfect timing

[JefCollier]

I was already using this after seeing your comment about WezTerm in your Alacrity video. I still watched this to the very end because I just like listening to Josean validate me.

[RYKalmante]

Thank you, Josean, for adding the transparent feature. For now, I will stick with your iTerm2 setup.

[Keb_Le]

Now to do Kitty for the holy terminal trinity B). Great video!

[omnipotentpotatoes]

12:35 Just a little suggestion. Switching the icons flag on eza to “auto” is really helpful for piping a large directory through grep and then xargs to du or something similar. The icons a sperate text that is passed through a pipe which can really mess up the result.

[nasang]

Yeay, been using this for 1 year, love this terminal because of the default config has both macOS and Linux keymaps interoperability for do basic things like copy, paste, etc.

[ttruogn]

Thanks for the video! Kitty should be the next:) It has a nice picture preview available out of the box.

[AndreiSilvester]

I encountered bugs with clipboard in Wezterm and switched back to Konsole. Works really well (though had to patch it for OSC52 support).

[jhonyortiz]

I love wezterm. Nothing is as fast as alacrity, and sometimes even in terminals it matters. And Kitty is just a beautiful mess. Wezterm just works and is still very fast.

[xen]

What do you use for displaying keystrokes in your video?

[marvinl]

Hey! Is there a particular reason why you opted for your own nvim config instead of using LazyVim, Astro, etc.?

[maddyleaf]

Been using Iterm2 for ages since I loved my setup and for some reason I could never get Alacritty or kitty to behave and look like my Iterm2 setup.

I had no idea about wezterm since a week ago and everything just works perfectly, I finally got the behavior and look of my old setup, but now it's way faster.

[gabrielgandour]

Hey Josean! Which keyboard are you using on this video? The sound of you typing is really satisfying to me haha.

[jlaviews]

What keyboard and switch are you using?

[xyrn]

hey man, I used your config on neovim I'm trying to implement the tailwindcss color highlights, I make it work but the icons on autosuggestion are gone. any idea how to fix it?

[omarroldan]

Awesome video. Is there any particular reason do you prefer tmux over wezterm's related features? I think its easier to mantain only wezterm + nvim configs instead of terminal + tmux + nvim configs

[gokgokay]

Hi Josean! I love your configuration. I have a question, as a mac and nvim user, which of western and iterm would you prefer to use?

[iamramiz]

Thock level 💯. What keyboard are you using?

[eyayawb]

Great video! Why do prefer to install/manage zsh plugins with brew instead of zinit?