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Someone explained to me once why a GPU-accelerated terminal emu might be useful, but I can't recall what you might use that for. Anyone have an example of what a good use case would be?
It's just faster and smoother when scrolling text, and all the work of shifting those pixels is pushed off onto specialized hardware that's much more efficient at it. I use alacritty which is a different GPU-accelerated terminal emulator and I'm very fond of it. It's not a huge deal, I just figure that if I have the hardware, I might as well use it.
How much VRAM does alacritty use? On my machine, nvidia-smi reports 6MiB for konsole, which I'm seems to be some default reserved by Qt apps (eg dolphin reports the same amount)
Most of my open terminals are using 9 MiB, although one is using 17.