More fun in the terminal with Wezterm!

Wezterm is my new favorite terminal emulator. It’s been fun to create some customizations for it using the lua programming language. In this video, I’ll show you how I swap out background images, fonts, and color schemes using lua. I’ll also show you a tip for how to get rid of the notch if you have a MacBook.

Here’s the helper function I created to get a random entry from a table:

local wezterm = require("wezterm")
local M = {}

M.get_random_entry = function(tbl)
  local keys = {}
  for key, _ in ipairs(tbl) do
    table.insert(keys, key)
  end
  local randomKey = keys[math.random(1, #keys)]
  return tbl[randomKey]
end

return M

You can view all of my Wezterm configure here: github.com/joshmedeski/dotfiles/.config/wezterm

If you want to learn more about Wezterm, check out the official docs: wezfurlong.org/wezterm