The little it says about what this even is seems to be wrong. This is not cross-platform at all
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Ghostty 1.0
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Re: Ghostty 1.0
#242To people who tried using it, what are the reasons to use it over iTerm2?
I tried it but I just can't jump since it doesn't have support the global hotkey to autofocus iterm that I'm so used to. I tried using their toggle_visibility keybind but it's a bit wonky since it doesn't return focus back to another window when you toggle away.
I just use rcmd for that. But that iterm feature is nice.
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#243After a quick test this looks incredibly good and fast. I'll use it as a terminal for the next weeks to see how it goes, but I have good feelings. Thank you so much for writing it. EDIT: WOOOW, for me this is going to be a game changer. I was just working at Redis stuff outputting a ton of debugging info and results, and normally the terminal was the bottleneck, and here instead it printed half million of results in…
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#244Earlier 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.
Konsole is super solid. Just Works.
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#245Ghostty 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…
Just downloaded it because of the animation on the site. How did you make that? it's cute.
The terminal is good. I don't have any issues with the stock mac os terminal app but I'll give yours a go for a bit. I can't tell exactly how, but it does feel faster - I'm not sure exactly how it is but it looks like it renders text faster.
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#246I 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…
Gnome is becoming the de-facto Linux DE. It's standard on Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, Suse and Debian.
KDE is standard on what, Steam deck? Every enterprise-y distro ditched it some time ago...
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#247Re: Ghostty 1.0
#248Ghostty 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...
It's a macOS-only feature, for now.
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was using iTerm up until about a week ago when I unboxed a new Mac and decided to test out alternatives while setting it up. Ghostty wasn't out yet so I started with Wezterm, and was shocked to find how much it's speed improved my terminal experience. Typing latency is much better in nvim, and scrolling is vastly improved in nvim and tmux. Ghostty feels like a Mac app like iTerm2 while being fast and having fewer f…
Do you have a lot of triggers set up in iTerm 2? IMO that’s what kills performance. I can understand being frustrated about latency on older Macs — I used to run Alacritty for certain tasks on my Intel Macs for that reason. But on newer Macs like a new M4 Pro I’m back to 100% iTerm 2 again. I can’t fathom having latency problems with iTerm 2 on a new Mac you just unboxed.
Mitchell has a 5 min lightning talk discussing performance of ghostty which is worth a quick watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPaGkEesw20&t=3015s
It's one of those things that you don't realize how poor the performance is until you experience something better.
Mentioned from his blog: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-is-coming
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)?
This gets brought up a lot, so I wrote about it here https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/