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Ghostty is now non-profit

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Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by komali2 »

59nadir wrote: post #288
komali2 wrote: post #161

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> Also, I don't want to repeat this everywhere but I paid taxes and I lost a comma, so no need to worry about that anymore! Everyone please pull out your most microscopic violins! Well, since we're talking about it, maybe you're down to answer a question I've always wondered about: money into the hundred millions, let alone billions, is for me an unfathomable amount of capital for one person to wield. I've always tho…

While I understand that people might downvote the parent post because it seems in bad taste and touches on a culturally sensitive thing, haven't we all wondered this? Why is it that the poor give relatively more generously than the rich? It's such an interesting phenomenon that so many ultra rich people are essentially just hoarding wealth beyond what they should reasonably be able to even have use of in multiple gen…

I think it might be because I'm autistic but can you help me understand why it's in bad taste to ask it? I see YouTube videos of people talking about how they became really wealthy or showing off their houses or cars, and this person was talking about his bank account directly and has mentioned the 3 comma thing before, so I'm a bit confused why it's not ok to ask more about it.

You did mention something I didn't think of which is lifetimes, I guess if someone wanted to guarantee an ultra wealthy lifestyle for all generations of their kids and grandkids forever, that would be a reason to hoard wealth into the hundreds of millions.

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Post by alkh »

sdqali wrote: post #188
alkh wrote: post #15

The only thing I am missing now from Ghostty is being able to open it in any open Finder folder with a keyboard shortcut(like standard Ubuntu terminal). Ghostty already provides Finder-specific GUI shortcut but you need to use a mouse. Otherwise, stellar work(especially the ease of configuring it) and congrats to everyone involved!

This can be done through Nautilus scripts. > cat ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/Ghostty #!/usr/bin/env bash ghostty --working-directory=$(pwd) > cat ~/.config/nautilus/scripts-accels F4 Ghostty

Thanks, looks cool but not available for OSX (:

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by sadeshmukh »

eviks wrote: post #227

> but a non-profit structure allows others to contribute financially without fear of misappropriation or misuse of funds (as protected by legal requirements and oversight from the fiscal sponsor). None of the parenthesised provide any strong guarantees against these to alleviate such fears, are there not enough non-profits that misuse funds, say, on too high of an executive compensation instead of product development…

Transactions are public: https://hcb.hackclub.com/ghostty/transactions

HCB staff also do not take kindly to missing receipts or fraudulent behavior.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by cess11 »

cbolton wrote: post #252
cess11 wrote: post #237

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It's good at what it does. Starts quickly, doesn't get bogged down when dumping large amounts of text into it, got some nice themes. I find it a bit messy to build but I'm not exactly a compile binaries kind of person anymore so it's probably a good sign that I still manage to figure it out. If stuff like Zig is your thing you'll probably enjoy this part. My main terminal emulator is the bog slow but reliable Termina…

Ghostty is quite slow to start on my Linux machine, very close the the first start of GNOME Terminal (or Terminator). Maybe because I'm on Wayland? Are you on X?

Yeah, I'm still on X. I'll make the switch when I haven't heard a friend get really annoyed by something Wayland related in a year or so. It's a Debian system. Not sure if it matters but there's an RTX A500 in the machine.

So, perhaps? For a while I was on a local compile of 1.0.0, and a while ago I started pulling the nightly sources and build from those.

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Post by ckbkr10 »

danilafe wrote: post #198

I keep seeing Ghostty in the news, and I've tried it, but it feels like just another terminal emulator to men. This coming from someone who spends 90% of the workday in the terminal. Asking in good faith -- could someone tell me what's special about Ghostty compared to alternatives?

As another person that spends the whole day in the terminal. It's sad to see there is no Windows version. I do not understand why I would need gpu acceleration for a terminal, but I would still try it.

I use a company managed/provided machine that runs windows, I do not have to bother maintaining it. All I use is basically Firefox and a MinGW to have a bash

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by cbolton »

59nadir wrote: post #286
cbolton wrote: post #252

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Ghostty is quite slow to start on my Linux machine, very close the the first start of GNOME Terminal (or Terminator). Maybe because I'm on Wayland? Are you on X?

I had this issue a few years ago with certain applications and came to find out that it had to do specifically with them using GTK. I googled for it and found the fix, and after all the same apps started practically instantly. Could this be what you're running into? (I haven't used ghostty so I wouldn't know whether it's actually fast to start up, but what you wrote reminded me about this particular issue.)

Maybe? I've tried removing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome as it seems to cause slow startup for other people but that doesn't seem to fix it.

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Post by dbacar »

fragmede wrote: post #283
dbacar wrote: post #282

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In fact I know the ctrl-d stuff, yet it is too much strain on your wrist if you use a finger to press the CTRL. Takes longer but typing exit is way easier. Alternatively I use the intersection of my palm and left pinky to press CTRL. :)

Remap caps-lock to be ctrl to save yourself from RSI.

too old to remap my brain :D

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Post by neop1x »

alwillis wrote: post #156
neop1x wrote: post #106

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Or WezTerm which is much more usable and polished than this. I don't think there are any. It is likely just a social media hype.

> I don't think there are any. It is likely just a social media hype. It's not hype. Here's a comprehensive review of a lot of terminals and Ghostty did very well--"State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions" [1] [1]: https://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2...

Can ghostty finally search in the scrollback? The last time I tried it it didn't support a freaking search. This is #1 feature I need from any terminal.

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Post by cholantesh »

KPGv2 wrote: post #196
cholantesh wrote: post #186

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I didn't think it was possible for anyone to express this thought more obnoxiously than DHH but here we are.

The obnoxious one here is the person obsessed with monetization, not the person who throws their ignorance back in their face. Every hobby these days has to be monetized; it's fucking gross.

Eh; it's maybe dumb to suggest the only way for a project to be sustainable is to monetize it, but responding with "I'm rich, you peasant, I'm above such concerns" is infinitely worse.

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Post by nylonstrung »

ceocoder wrote: post #208
catlover76 wrote: post #124

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I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?

Ferrari, McLaren, Pagani, Lamborghini, Tata, Honda, Toyota, Wal-Mart, Zuora (named after the two founders), Garmin (also named after the two founders).

Automattic and New Relic if we're looking within software
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