zellij: zellij is slow (alacritty or default terminal)

When moving the cursor or scrolling, there is visible delay, also in comparison to tmux. I tested with alacritty and with the linux mint default terminal.

Basic information

zellij --version: zellij 0.13.0 tput lines: 34 tput cols:115 uname -av: Linux pascal-G533QM 5.12.0-051200-generic #202104252130 SMP Sun Apr 25 21:33:13 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

nvim --version: NVIM v0.5.0-dev+1274-gbb3372792 (used the appimage release) alacritty --version: alacritty 0.8.0

Further information I just opened a file in nvim in alacritty and did scroll a little bit in the logs below.

zellij-7.log zellij-8.log zellij-9.log

Related Issue: https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues/443

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions: 8
  • Comments: 24 (13 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Hi everyone, new user here. I was feeling some kind of input latency compared to my previous multiplexer and found this issue, in particular the comments about changing render_pause. This led me to quickly put #798 together to address this. It may not fix all the problems reported here, but at least it helps reduce the perception of latency - please take a look!

I believe it is related, Vim scrolling/cursor is choppy. It reminds me of a non-double-buffered video game. I’ll try gathering more data than casual observation

Hi everyone, new user here. I was feeling some kind of input latency compared to my previous multiplexer and found this issue, in particular the comments about changing render_pause. This led me to quickly put #798 together to address this. It may not fix all the problems reported here, but at least it helps reduce the perception of latency - please take a look!

Awesome, it’s very fluent now for me, closing it.