By default, WezTerm doesn't have a scrollbar, but you can easily enable it with:

  config.enable_scroll_bar = true

  -- Hide the scrollbar when there is no scrollback or alternate screen is active
  wezterm.on("update-status", function(window, pane)
    local overrides = window:get_config_overrides() or {}
    local dimensions = pane:get_dimensions()

    overrides.enable_scroll_bar = dimensions.scrollback_rows > dimensions.viewport_rows and not pane:is_alt_screen_active()

    window:set_config_overrides(overrides)
  end)

https://blog.gripdev.xyz/2025/01/08/wezterm-easily-copy-text...

It allows adding a custom background image, also transparent background, and I can toggle all of that via my custom shortcuts: Transparent on/off, background image on/off/rotate randomly.

It is such a joy to use and so beautiful. That plus neovim, yazi file browser, and lazygit: Dreamteam. Best dev environment I ever had.

The first is hashing the working directory / (or remote hostname if I'm SSH'd into a host) to set tab title colors- much easier to find the right tab that way.

The second is writing a script to open tabs with in a certain order and set their titles. I don't use tmux, but this let's me recreate my preferred layout for projects quite easily.

See https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/tree/master/wezterm if any of this sounds useful to you!

1. When I split the terminal in 2 (left/right) and drag the slider around it glitches out and lags. On Linux at least. Like, I can release my mouse button and it'll just glitch back and forth between its old position and new position for a minute before settling down. (It also mangles any text that was already on the screen, but I'm guessing that's an artifact of the underlying shell, not wezterm)

2. I have a bunch of hyperlink regexes configured, but if there's a very long URL being displayed, WezTerm breaks the link. It's like it doesn't want to match URLs across multiple lines except the weird part is that the URL is literally only one line, it's WezTerms wrapping that makes it take multiple lines. So the regex is matching on displayed lines not on \ns, which is weird and breaks me constantly.

Other than those two things, it's pretty good.

Another issue I have with all terminals I've found so far is sometimes a program will just hang and no amount of Ctrl+C will kill it. And it drives me bonkers. I don't understand why the terminal can't take over and kill the entire shell and respawn it if it has to. In Wez I have to kill the pane or close the whole app. I tried digging in the Lua if I could "respawn pane" with a hotkey or something but I couldn't figure anything out that would keep my split-pane positioning.

I tried to use it on Windows as well but unfortunately the Antivirus freaks out on it. When I looked into it it was because of a small utility `strip-ansi-escapes` which is so simple that even I could see that it is a false positive. I tried to report it to Microsoft and other Antivirus companies with some success but in the end I gave up an this Sisyphus task.

1. Custom escape sequences that trigger my own code. iTerm 2 and Kitty support this (Kitty calls them "kittens"), but I don't think any other terminal emulators do. WezTerm appears not to. User variables do come close, but are not quite the same, since a user variable is "declarative" and this behavior is "imperative".

2. Show timestamps for each scrollback line. This is a feature you don't miss until you need it, but I use it, for example, to match log output timestamps to the time I ran a command in mysql console on a remote server.

I don't really care about streaming 134.55 MB/s of text to my terminal emulator; I do care about features that make me productive.

It's just broken on KDE permanently I guess :/ There have beem tickets about it, and there is an AUR repo with a patch that used to fix it... but :/

Was already worried about the project given that it hasn't seen a new release in quite a long time. Got the feeling that the maintainer has mostly moved on.

I got used to it and cannot make the switch to Wezterm because everything is unreadable to me now.

Otherwise, it's awesome and my default terminal everywhere.