all right, a year ago i tried kitty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478732 maybe it's time to try wezterm now:

first impression: dark background. no good. i want light. no gui to change. now where is that theme setting? ah, here: https://wezterm.org/config/appearance.html there are 1000 color schemes available! wut? ok, this seems to be all i am looking for: https://wezterm.org/config/lua/wezterm.gui/get_appearance.ht... gee, that's a lot of code for a single setting.

ok, that's better. now let's explore how wezterm handles sessions and windows/tabs.

it seems sessions would be domains, and so for a bunch of local sessions i need to configure some unix domains: https://wezterm.org/multiplexing.html#unix-domains

there is more about sessions here: https://wezterm.org/recipes/workspaces.html but it's all very abstract.

and where does this stuff go? ah, here: https://wezterm.org/config/files.html

turns out that the config example for the color scheme conflicts with setting other config values. i need

    config.color_scheme = ...
    return config

 not 

    return { color_scheme = ... }

that could have been explained better.

and finally, how do i switch sessions or tabs? no word about that on the multiplex page. or elsewhere.

fortunately, i found this article which describe an elaborate setup to make wezterm behave somewhat like tmux, with familiar keybindings. maybe i can get this to work: https://mwop.net/blog/2024-07-04-how-i-use-wezterm.html

oh, one last issue: there are no resize handles, or a titlebar, although according to the descriptions they should be there. where did they go?