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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by sam1522 »

yearolinuxdsktp wrote: post #80

It’s a shame that version 1.2.x got abandoned and didn’t receive any important bug fixes. That has severely cut my trust into this project. It’s been over 4 months since the last 1.2.3 release, so the memory leak when using Claude is not addressed, my Ghostty crashes are not addressed (crash reporter doesn’t work), I don’t even bother looking at the issues anymore, as I know I am not getting the fixes for a long time…

you should try foot terminal, i have been using for the past couple of months and it is quite good

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by lenkite »

nine_k wrote: post #189
jcgl wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Kitty I don't remember why I rejected. Maybe worth another look at then? I'm far from a Kitty power user, but it does pretty much everything else I want it to, including working as a quake-style terminal[0]. And you can extend it with kittens[1] if you so desire. Also, the next release should presumably include smooth scrolling[2] which I'm quite looking forward to. Maybe more than any one feature though, I appreci…

Kitty is great, but its author has very strong opinions, strongly held; this keeps a number of popular requests summarily rejected. In particular, there is no way to color plain bold text, which is possible in basically any other emulator. This is a deal-breaker for me personally, it makes reading e.g. man pages unnecessarily hard. WezTerm is a very good replacement.

Out of curiosity, what is the reason given to not color plain bold text ?

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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mitchellh wrote: post #43
bArray wrote: post #31

For anyone using this terminal that hates != (and others) being turned into a single character, I have the following to turn off ligatures: font-feature = -dlig font-feature = -liga font-feature = -calt This can be updated in `$HOME/.config/ghostty/config`.

Note in Ghostty 1.3 we disable discretionary ligatures (I think dlig/calt) by default as recommended by font standards. We still enable liga though that usually contains far less controversial ligatures.

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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by vwkd »

mitchellh wrote: post #43
bArray wrote: post #31

For anyone using this terminal that hates != (and others) being turned into a single character, I have the following to turn off ligatures: font-feature = -dlig font-feature = -liga font-feature = -calt This can be updated in `$HOME/.config/ghostty/config`.

Note in Ghostty 1.3 we disable discretionary ligatures (I think dlig/calt) by default as recommended by font standards. We still enable liga though that usually contains far less controversial ligatures.

Maybe only dlig was disabled? On tip I had to add `font-feature=-calt` to disable ligatures like != for Berkeley Mono v2.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by [deleted] »

kccqzy wrote: post #66
lomlobon wrote: post #11

How's the latency? I've had to keep using xterm even though it kind of sucks just because it's got the lowest latency by quite a bit.

Since people are mentioning latency I’ll mention throughput. Basically the idea is that you accidentally cat a large file to your terminal and we are measuring how much time it takes for the terminal to finish displaying it. This test generally favors GPU-accelerated terminals. Ghostty performs very well on this regard, among the same league as Alacritty and Ptyxis.

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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by lylo »

mitchellh wrote: post #33

I'm the original creator of Ghostty. It's been a few years now! I don't know why this is on the front page of HN again but let me give some meaningful updates across the board. First, libghostty is _way more exciting_ nowadays. It is already backing more than a dozen terminal projects that are free and commercial: https://github.com/Uzaaft/awesome-libghostty I think this is the real future of Ghostty and I've said th…

I came to Ghostty for the icon, but stayed because of the experience, the philosophy and your dedication and enthusiasm. Thanks!
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