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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by threecheese »

GreenWatermelon wrote: post #66
indigodaddy wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks really awesome. I'm going to sound like I don't belong in the hipster terminal club, but the reason I shied away from some of the other terminals is the lack of tabs, which looks like yours has when I did a quick Google question/search. (if wezterm and the like have them, I must have missed it or it wasn't obviously apparent in the settings how to achieve them). I know everyone will say but tmux and/or native m…

Wezterm has tabs right out of the box and they are fully customizable, though I prefer tmux since I prefer to not have my data extinguished if I accidentally close the terminal :D WezTerm shines in ease and breadth of configurability due to using lua, so it's simple to have the theme change between light/dark depending on host OS theme.

Interestingly there’s another comment ITT complaining that they need to use a programming language for configuring wezterm :)

As a wezterm user I’ll admit that configuring it was mildly annoying to start, but ended up feeling like an accomplishment. A few years in, it’s just another annoying program I have to re-remember how to use when i update twice a year.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by dsp_person »

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.

Hmm any way for this to work in kde plasma wayland?

In yakuake they have to register the Open/Retract shortcut with KGlobalAccel [1] and I don't think global shortcuts are implemented otherwise

[1] https://github.com/KDE/yakuake/blob/164d24b8bad1175199260c62...

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by nickorlow »

Any Alacritry users have opinions on this? I've been waiting for its release and am looking forward to trying it. Wonder what the big differences are?

I mostly appreciate Alacritty's simplicity and use tmux to manage multiple windows/panes.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by mitchellh »

imron wrote: post #140
arghwhat wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just make sure not to get caught in the pitfall that is maximum render speed, which can lead to missing out on efficiency during slow and partial rendering. Missing damage tracking, always painting everything (even when the window is a full 4k monitor), etc. kills performance and input latency when dealing with realistic redraw workloads like text editing, blinking cursors and progress bars. Much too often to termina…

> kills performance And battery. I gave up on alacritty because it was always using the dedicated graphics card of my MacBook and there was no reasonably way to use the integrated graphics card because it was “low performance”.

- Ghostty does vsync by default and supports variable refresh rates (DisplayLink). If you're on battery and macOS wants to slow Ghostty down, it can and we respect it.

- Ghostty picks your integrated GPU over dedicated/external

- Ghostty sets non-focused rendering threads as QoS background to go onto E-cores

- Ghostty slows down rendering significantly if the window is obscured completely (not visible)

No idea if Alacritty does this, I'm not commenting about that. They might! I'm just talking from the Ghostty side.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by x3ro »

puttycat wrote: post #139

What am I missing? Can someone please explain what reason there is to switch/build a new terminal when we can use e.g. iTerm ?

Proper text-based configuration made me switch from iTerm to WezTerm, and i’ll give this a try as well :)

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by CalebJohn »

_7tgr wrote: post #86
arghwhat wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just make sure not to get caught in the pitfall that is maximum render speed, which can lead to missing out on efficiency during slow and partial rendering. Missing damage tracking, always painting everything (even when the window is a full 4k monitor), etc. kills performance and input latency when dealing with realistic redraw workloads like text editing, blinking cursors and progress bars. Much too often to termina…

Right, input latency is what matters for me. I'm not seeing whether they've measured that in the docs/on Github.

He mentions input latency[1] as one of 4 aspects of being fast that were considered during development. I’m not aware of how that was tested, but would trust that it outperforms Iterm2 in that regard.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPaGkEesw20&t=3015s

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by therealfiona »

mitchellh wrote: post #48

Ghostty got a lot of hype (I cover this in my reflection below), but I want to make sure I call out that there is a good group of EXCELLENT terminals out there, and I'm not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it's right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices. Shout out to Kitty, WezTerm, Foot in particular. iTerm2 gets some ha…

Looks cool man.

Does it have a way to do tabs, and split terminal vertical and horizontal? Those are the only features keeping me on Terminator.

I've tried Tmux, but it isn't the same, so please commenters, avoid from the suggestion.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by howon92 »

mitchellh wrote: post #48

Ghostty got a lot of hype (I cover this in my reflection below), but I want to make sure I call out that there is a good group of EXCELLENT terminals out there, and I'm not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it's right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices. Shout out to Kitty, WezTerm, Foot in particular. iTerm2 gets some ha…

I'm a fan of your work! I'm curious about how you decided to work on building a terminal for your next project among your other ideas. If you have time later, could you share your main motivation with us or link to an existing post if you already mentioned it elsewhere?
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