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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by SG- » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 8:31 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #9

I assume this is mostly a mac thing? The effort to get this up and running on debian appears to be a bit more work than normal.

it's a Mac and Linux thing.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by sitkack » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 8:31 PM UTC

Is there a bounty for zero days?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by mrjbq7 » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 8:32 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #9

I assume this is mostly a mac thing? The effort to get this up and running on debian appears to be a bit more work than normal.

$ git clone git@github.com:ghostty-org/ghostty.git

$ cd ghostty

$ zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast

$ ./zig-out/bin/ghostty

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by mrjbq7 » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 8:33 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #9

I assume this is mostly a mac thing? The effort to get this up and running on debian appears to be a bit more work than normal.

I imagine package managers will start picking this up shortly since it just released publicly.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by selectnull » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 8:34 PM UTC

sitkack wrote: post #12

Is there a bounty for zero days?

Yes, your name will forever be on that pull request.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by BSDobelix » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 8:34 PM UTC

So I will see how well it works on FreeBSD, but I love the development model, keeping it "closed" for the 1.0 (focus and polish), I have not tested it yet, but it already "feels" like professional engineering work.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by beanjuiceII » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 8:35 PM UTC

mrjbq7 wrote: post #13

kristopolous wrote: post #9

I assume this is mostly a mac thing? The effort to get this up and running on debian appears to be a bit more work than normal.

$ git clone git@github.com:ghostty-org/ghostty.git $ cd ghostty $ zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast $ ./zig-out/bin/ghostty

tried this doesn't work do i need some specific zig version?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by sitkack » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 8:36 PM UTC

selectnull wrote: post #15

sitkack wrote: post #12

Is there a bounty for zero days?

Yes, your name will forever be on that pull request.

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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by Jarred » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 8:37 PM UTC

I've been using Ghostty for several months now (used Alacritty before that). Ghostty is really, really good. It's fast, it gets the text rendering right (many cross-platform terminals struggle with this), and it has all the features I need.

It's also some very well-written Zig code. We use some of the code for graphemes in Bun for `Bun.stringWidth`.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by modernerd » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 8:37 PM UTC

Ghostty has a hard-to-find "quake mode" that may interest some.

During the beta I had it configured like this on macOS:

    keybind = global:cmd+space=toggle_quick_terminal
    quick-terminal-animation-duration = 0.1

There isn't an option to set the default height of the "quick terminal" window that I'm aware of but you can drag the bottom of the window after it opens and it will persist between toggles.