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Re: Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI

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Agree. Weird to market a terminal with a description of how it looks rather than actually how it looks.

No LLM is going to take screenshots unless you force it to. They like dem words more!

They're not an LLM, just Aspie. I've seen this misconception like three or four times recently, it's nuts.

Re: Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI

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You should post a screenshot in the README to give people an idea of what the terminal looks like.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I've added a screenshot to the README. Hope you like it.

To be fair: no, I dislike it. It looks completely unreadable. I still don't know why Apple thinks this is a good idea.

Re: Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI

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Hi everyone, I'm the developer of Calyx. I was a Ghostty user but kept running into the same problem: too many tabs, no way to organize them. Ghostty doesn't have tab groups or a plugin system, so I built Calyx using libghostty as the rendering engine. The idea is simple — keep Ghostty's speed, but add the workflow features I was missing: - Tab Groups — color-coded, collapsible groups to organize tabs by project - Co…

Do you have a screenshot!? I'll happily move to Calyx if it looks to my taste.

Hi, I've added a screenshot to the README. Thanks for the nudge!

Re: Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI

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Hi everyone, I'm the developer of Calyx. I was a Ghostty user but kept running into the same problem: too many tabs, no way to organize them. Ghostty doesn't have tab groups or a plugin system, so I built Calyx using libghostty as the rendering engine. The idea is simple — keep Ghostty's speed, but add the workflow features I was missing: - Tab Groups — color-coded, collapsible groups to organize tabs by project - Co…

Did you have trouble using tmux to organize your terminal sessions?

Re: Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI

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Hi everyone, I'm the developer of Calyx. I was a Ghostty user but kept running into the same problem: too many tabs, no way to organize them. Ghostty doesn't have tab groups or a plugin system, so I built Calyx using libghostty as the rendering engine. The idea is simple — keep Ghostty's speed, but add the workflow features I was missing: - Tab Groups — color-coded, collapsible groups to organize tabs by project - Co…

Did you have trouble using tmux to organize your terminal sessions?

Hi, thank you for asking. Honestly, I didn't know about tmux when I started this project. I was only familiar with Ghostty and cmux, and I really wanted a translucent terminal with Liquid Glass. Plus, building my own means I can customize it however I want going forward. So I just went for it.

Re: Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI

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Hi, thanks for the feedback. I've added a screenshot to the README. Hope you like it.

To be fair: no, I dislike it. It looks completely unreadable. I still don't know why Apple thinks this is a good idea.

Apple isn't suggesting to adopt this for your terminal, given they haven't made the native terminal glassy.

Re: Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI

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Hi, thanks for the feedback. I've added a screenshot to the README. Hope you like it.

To be fair: no, I dislike it. It looks completely unreadable. I still don't know why Apple thinks this is a good idea.

This is not what Liquid Glass actually looks like on first-party macOS applications. This needs way more blur and opacity to match even the control center widgets.
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