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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by micahkepe »

Been trying it out for a few hours and love it! One feature that I do miss from Kitty is the cursor trail when your cursor moves in a buffer. Excited to see what Ghostty does in the future and thank you for a great new terminal!

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by afatparakeet »

wutwutwat wrote: post #27
BSDobelix wrote: post #16

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.

source is open https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty

Only as of 1.0 release I believe was their point.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by do_not_redeem »

block_dagger wrote: post #105

Nice work! How does this compare to Warp?

- open source

- faster

- no AI bloat

- no telemetry

- no obnoxious warning banner if you run without admin access

- no VCs that will enshittify the app in a few years

- doesn't require an internet connection and an account to access motherfucking bash on your local machine

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by thomaslutz »

modernerd wrote: post #20

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.

Downside is that the quick terminal doesn't support tabs. Unfortunately that's currently a dealbreaker for me.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by rand0m4r »

do_not_redeem wrote: post #10

I just want to say thanks for the minimum-contrast option: https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#minimum-contrast I've grown so sick of tools/TUIs that output unreadable text (like Debian's ls that defaults to dark-blue-on-black for directories). I look forward to never manually theming a terminal app again!

thanks for sharing

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by marcus0x62 »

saberience wrote: post #111
alberth wrote: post #30

For those who don’t have the background: - created by Mitchell (founder of HashiCorp) - it’s developed in Zig (and Mitchell recently pledge $300k to Zig foundation) - uses native UI (which is super rare for cross platform app) - amazingly performant. e.g. https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/111919642467789362 - has lots of amazing small details like below https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/113330304084905500 https://hachyde…

It doesn't work in Windows so how is it cross platform? Also, I've been using terminals since DOS in 1990 and never once have I had to say, "I wish this terminal had more performance", so I'm not sure that performance is really relevant here. If I write a command to build my project which takes 10 mins to build, does it matter whether the terminal command ran in 10 milliseconds vs 1 millisecond? In the linked speed d…

> It doesn't work in Windows so how is it cross platform?

Linux and macOS are different platforms. Would calling it multi-platform make you happier?

> Also, I've been using terminals since DOS in 1990 and never once have I had to say, "I wish this terminal had more performance",

I remember the Windows terminal being unbearably slow in the past and wishing it had better performance.

Maybe this just isn’t for you.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by root_axis »

medimikka wrote: post #72
thiht wrote: post #38

I’ve been very disappointed with Alacritty (no support for split term in favor of tmux) and WezTerm (insane config format, config has no business using a full fledged programming language) feature wise, so I have high hopes regarding Ghostty, can’t wait to try it!

Config being a programming language has insane advantages. Not only can I error check my config in vim or Visual Code, I can do insane things with logic that just don't work in other config file approaches. My laptop is connected to a 32" 4k monitor at work, standalone while traveling, and to a 27" 2k at home. WezTerm "knows" that, and sets things such as font size and line height automagically. Even more, I can have…

I've used wezterm for years and have never done anything fancy with the config, but this sounds awesome. I'd really appreciate it if you could link your config or a similar resource.
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