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Re: Ghostty 1.2.0

#13
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It look's like a good terminal emulator. The sad part is that on Linux it is Gnome only.

What do you mean? It uses Gtk but can be used from other desktop environments.

It uses libadwaita which is a GNOME only library. It will run on others GTK environments but won't match the UI styles.

Re: Ghostty 1.2.0

#16
As someone who spends most of my time remoted in to other machines, it's very hard to give up the deep tmux integration on iTerm 2, but I do cast a wandering gaze at Ghostty now and then. I know some people think tmux is a dead-end so if an alternative ever really gains traction I could be convinced to switch.

Re: Ghostty 1.2.0

#17

Some Typometer measurements on i3 here: # Title Min Max Avg SD 1 xterm 397 3.1 4.0 3.5 0.2 2 Alacritty 0.15.1 3.6 4.8 4.2 0.2 3 xfce4-terminal 1.1.4 2.9 6.8 4.4 0.3 4 Ghostty 1.2.0 11.3 15.5 13.0 0.7 5 kitty 0.42.2 11.7 21.3 15.8 3.3 https://imgur.com/a/RobYTWY

Bonus VS Code:

  # Title      Min     Max     Avg     SD
  1 VS Code    10.8    19.7    13.0    1.2

Re: Ghostty 1.2.0

#20
> Ghostty 1.3 will continue the focus of making Ghostty the "best existing terminal emulator" by shipping the last remaining major missing features to achieve parity with other popular terminal emulators. Namely, we plan on shipping scrollback search and scrollbars for 1.3, at a minimum.

Are scrollback and scrollbars that hard to implement? Or do people just don't care that much about them that they are only added in 1.3?

I tried using various terminal emulators which don't support scrollback and scrollbars with tmux (which apparently most people do as a substitute). However for me that falls apart as soon as you SSH to a remote host and need to use tmux there as well. Maybe I'm just a console-noob...

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