WezTerm

Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with WezTerm, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 19 complaints

Click-and-drag selection only works for a few lines of text2026-03-01
Noticeably slow, with input latency in some situations, such as rendering while games run at 144fps2025-12-04
Terminal lags for seconds on every keystroke inside mc on the VDI2025-10-31
Dragging the split divider glitches and lags, flickering between positions after release2025-10-30
Scrollbar always shows as a big line even with no scrollback2025-10-29
Duplicate titlebar buttons appear in both titlebar and tabbar, requiring a workaround2025-08-02
Configuring it is mildly annoying and has to be re-learned after each update2024-12-26
Adding a simple Cmd+K shortcut to clear the buffer was tedious and boring to set up2024-10-23
Using ssh.exe in WezTerm causes noticeable latency and quirks from Windows conpty2024-08-13
Mouse themes are applied inconsistently on Gnome Wayland2024-08-12
Terminal is slow to respond compared to Kitty and Windows Terminal2024-08-12
Cmd-left and cmd-right not bound by default, must add Lua config2024-08-12
Command-A types an 'a' instead of selecting everything, and the select-all option is hard to discover in docs2024-08-12
Switching between macOS and Linux keeps leading to pressing the wrong shortcut keys2024-08-12
Many features are hard to discover; keyboard block selection is forgotten and hard to relocate2024-08-12
Terminal is so laggy on the MacBook Air it becomes unusable2024-05-22
Terminal clears man page or editor output on exit, unlike xterm's option2023-05-28
Keyboard layout breaks typing of | and shortcuts on European keyboards; close and find dialogs feel antiquated2021-12-12
Window titles all say "Wezterm" so the current directory and running command aren't shown2021-12-12