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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by glitchc »

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…

Thank you for making this. Does it support quake mode? It's hard to tell looking at the docs.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by sionisrecur »

sureglymop wrote: post #32

Does it support Ctrl+Scroll to zoom? Somehow I got used to this years ago and unfortunately not a lot of software supports it. Have been using Wezterm until now, which does.

That's usually a feature of the Desktop Environment. If you configure it there then it works everywhere.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by dcre »

nathansherburn wrote: post #156
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 ?

I'm still using the built in MacOS terminal. What am I missing? I mostly do webdev - maybe terminal features are more important for other types of programming?

Built-in terminal doesn’t support truecolor. Many CLI programs rely on that to look good.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by SG- »

cmgriffing wrote: post #75
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…

No mention of Cool Retro Term!?!? Typical elitist behavior... /s I'm just having a bit of fun, but it is a fun terminal every once in a while. https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

you can use glsl shaders with Ghostty including this CRT one to mimic what cool retro does

https://github.com/m-ahdal/ghostty-shaders/blob/main/crt.gls...

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#196

Post by SG- »

Zetaphor wrote: post #190

Sadly another terminal that doesn't seem to support "Quake style" dropdown (that I can find) Having my terminal session available on a hotkey has become a critical part of my workflow

except it does? View -> Quick Terminal.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by commotionfever »

skykooler wrote: post #138
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.

Does this work under Wayland? I remember that being an issue for Guake.

it should do. on Linux it uses GTK which supports Wayland these days

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by PMunch »

Cool to finally see a 1.0 release of Ghostty! Will definitely check it out. One very strange and niche question though, do you support font switching with SGR escape codes? After the Monaspace font family was released I made a PR to Vim to support highlighting by font switching, but I've yet to find a terminal emulator to my liking that supports it. I'm building an eink laptop and its monochrome display requires some neat tricks like this to get the most out of the device.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by tessellated »

dotancohen wrote: post #104
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…

I also use tmux, but I love the native tabs of Konsole in KDE. I have Shift-Arrow configured to move between them, it is far more comfortable than the dual shortcuts needed by tmux, Ctrl-B to call tmux's attention then l (if I remember correctly) to get to the last tab. Konsole also has easy resizing of text and supports images in the console, you might like it.

I just tried, "tmux bind -n S-Left prev"... works. Thank you, good idea. I now have 'S-Up switch-client -n' and 'S-Down last'

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by jeremy_k »

spopejoy wrote: post #169
jeremy_k wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same request. As someone who uses the standard Teriminal application on my MBP I'm wondering what benefits I might find from Ghostty

I think "vanilla" terminal users such as myself (e.g. I don't do a bunch of screen/tmuxing, I don't code in terminals etc) probably are not the target audience. I've had zero issues with standard macos terminal ( once I realized how to speed up key repeat in system settings that is), so I assume I don't need this.

Makes a lot of sense, I fall into the same bucket as you so thank you for the response. I use the terminal to start up services and issue git commands. Beyond that, not too much.
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