As someone who uses the default terminal app, I'm curious to learn about other people's use-cases where the choice of terminal app makes a difference and how.
Ghostty 1.0
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Re: Ghostty 1.0
#212no windows version?
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#213Landing page and github README could improve:
- picture or gif is worth a thousand word
- it mentioned its cross-platform but I don't see support for Windows or Android - its better make it explicit it's only for macOS and Linux. Yesterday was looking for some nicer terminal on Android and was hoping ghostty could work.
- I like simple landing pages but this... is too simple and not much useful (only 2 buttons and ASCII image. Why even bother with such landing page and not just stick with github README?
- it doesn't provide me any fast information how to compares to different terminals and why I should switch from Warp
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#214Ghostty 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.
You can always run tmux inside. I personally don't use tabs in my terminal emulator at all, because I use tmux tabs for everything.
It may not work for you, of course.
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I like where we're headed with tools like this and Ladybird[0] for hope of a subscriptionless future. That's a weird statement. I've been running a free, open-source and subscription-less browser (firefox) and terminal emulator (many) for close to 20 years. Actually I like what ladybird is doing in the browser space, given firefox is quite dependent on google cash. But this is just yet another terminal emulator in…
native UI is so much more than how a border of a window looks like.
What is native UI in this context? My terminal emulator is also always basically a full-screen black textarea with white letters. No window borders, no tabs, no buttons, no menus, nothing else. Is there anything native UI would give me in this case (and what is a native UI, I can't find it defined anywhere)?
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#216I might give this a shot but using GTK4 makes me think this won’t live up to the “native” claim on Linux. It will likely feel out of place on non-GTK DEs with KDE being the big one. And yes, I did read the about page disclaimer about Linux but strongly disagree about calling GTK4 the closest thing. That’s a very GNOME-centric view (e.g., ignores the rest of the Linux ecosystem) and makes me worry that any issues on o…
Does "native" exist on Linux, in your opinion? Feels to me like both QT and GTK (and maybe iced if cosmic comes to fruition?) could be considered native (or none of them can, depending on your point of view).
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#217Ghostty 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.
Amazing, thanks! This is most of how I use a terminal. Will give it a go.
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#218Any love for Windows. I'm getting restless to ditch putty but unable to find any good emulator that has select and login style of management screen.
When on windows I have been happy with WezTerm
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#219Earlier 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 does have tabs, and their related keyboard shortcuts are configurable. See https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/Spaw... for a starting point in the config.
WezTerm has emulated tabs, not OS-native tabs. Some people will find that to be enough to suit their needs. Others will want 'real tabs'.
For example, I can select a tab in Ghostty, pull it out into its own window, and then stick it into another window. This doesn't work in WezTerm, nor can you drag them around to rearrange them (keyboard shortcuts allow this however).
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#220This is such a cool project, looks amazing!