tags:
- gpu
front_end = "OpenGL"
Specifies which render front-end to use. This option used to have more scope in earlier versions of wezterm, but today it allows two possible values:
OpenGL
- use GPU accelerated rasterization (this is the default)Software
- use CPU-based rasterization.WebGpu
- use GPU accelerated rasterization {{since('20221119-145034-49b9839f', inline=True)}}
You may wish (or need!) to select Software
if there are issues with your
GPU/OpenGL drivers.
WezTerm will automatically select Software
if it detects that it is
being started in a Remote Desktop environment on Windows.
WebGpu
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The WebGpu front end allows wezterm to use GPU acceleration provided by a number of platform-specific backends:
- Metal (on macOS)
- Vulkan
- DirectX 12 (on Windows)
See also: