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Ghostty is now non-profit

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Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by alkh »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #18
orbsa wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you not bind the command "open ." to a keybind through Ghostty?

I think they are looking for the opposite: open a Ghostty window from Finder.

Yeah, exactly, like Ctrl+Alt+T opening Xterm in Ubuntu. If I am not mistaken, if you have a file explorer open it will automatically open terminal in that specific folder(i.e. kind of like `cd`ing there first)

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Post by presbyterian »

alkh wrote: post #15

The only thing I am missing now from Ghostty is being able to open it in any open Finder folder with a keyboard shortcut(like standard Ubuntu terminal). Ghostty already provides Finder-specific GUI shortcut but you need to use a mouse. Otherwise, stellar work(especially the ease of configuring it) and congrats to everyone involved!

I do this with an Alfred workflow, I hit command+space and then type “ft” and it opens the front most Finder window’s directory in Terminal (or iTerm, you can set it to whatever)

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Post by mindcrash »

bos wrote: post #3

Really nice to see a solidly valuable project develop a sustainable foundation instead of turning into yet another VC-backed devtools startup that will inevitably die in a few years.

Rather thank IBM for paying Mitchell an outrageous amount of money for Hashicorp, so he can devote all of his time on awesome projects like Ghostty without ever thinking about sustainable income ever again.

So thanks, IBM! <3

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Post by purpleidea »

This is great work and good news, however if you want to guarantee a long-term public benefit, use copyleft without a CLA! A more well-funded company can fork this and make the new work proprietary, meaning you did all that initial development work for them for free.

Apple and Microsoft are the two most likely parties to do so here. This isn't a theoretical risk.

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Post by nurettin »

simonw wrote: post #25
srameshc wrote: post #22

I never realize Ghostty is a project by Mitchell Hashimoto. I am very happy with tmux and never seriously looked at it , now I really curious what is it about and how it is different than say tmux ?

It's not an alternative to tmux, it's an alternative to the macOS Terminal.app or iTerm2. You can run tmux inside Ghostty.

For those who will read this literally, it works fine on linux as well.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by jeanlucas »

VerifiedReports wrote: post #30

Cool. I hadn't heard of it before. What advantages does it offer over the Mac's Terminal, for example?

Against Mac's terminal I'd recommend ghostty. Just the support for more characters and better defaults are a good reason.

Yet, I use WezTerm, won't be switching soon.

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