Linux version of Warp terminal is here

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13 points·vorporeal··5 comments

Hi! I’m Aloke, an engineer at Warp.

I’m really excited to share that Warp is now available on Linux! If you’re interested in trying it out, you can download Warp: https://warp.dev/

Building Warp on Linux was quite an undertaking. Warp uses a custom Rust-based UI framework that we built in house and renders natively on the GPU. To get Warp running on Linux, we built a version of our UI framework that supports winit [1] as a windowing backend. We also built a version of our renderer that uses wgpu [2]. Reducing complexity by using these well-supported, cross platform, frameworks let us bootstrap a version of Linux quicker than expected and should make it easier to build Warp for other platforms (like Windows).

Please let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges.

[1] https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit [2] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu

I'm trying out Warp for the first time, and an immediate accessibility issue for me is that the text is simply too small to read for a lot of the UI elements (context menu, side bar, tab bar…). The size should be configurable for all of the elements, not just the terminal view. I think I would also be fine with a setting that just scales the whole UI.

I did notice there is an issue for it already: https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/1443

I've used it on Mac on my work machine for a year-plus now. Now the wait is finally over for personal. Thanks for all your hard work on this!

Is there an alternative to Windows powershell like Warp?

How does it work with tmux?

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