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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by dmkolobov »

torstenvl wrote: post #323
hombre_fatal wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's okay to filter people out who are too uninterested to click a "Documentation" link yet vocal enough to come post about it. It works for https://www.midjourney.com/home and apparently this project too with its 1100+ upvotes.

No, it isn't okay to filter people out for giving helpful feedback solely because you don't like the feedback. It's especially not okay to be so rude on HN. "Please don't post shallow dismissals"

I would think, or hope, that this guideline is geared towards protecting a years-long effort such as writing a performant, feature-rich terminal emulator, rather than a comment which takes 5 minutes max to draft.

Not clicking on a documentation link on a technical project is the definition of a shallow dismissal in my opinion.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by eviks »

Since this has some plans for being the best, will it add the great unique feature of wezterm: scripting config support?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by Kylejeong21 »

this is way better than using warp (ai gen terminal).

i'd rather use a nice-looking and well designed (UX) terminal than have to use a clunky ai native one.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by AndyKelley »

tlhunter wrote: post #264
eddythompson80 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

0.13.0 https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/4b4d4062dfed7b37... The full script is pretty much: $ wget https://ziglang.org/download/0.13.0/zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0.... $ tar xvf zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0.tar.xz $ git clone git@github.com:ghostty-org/ghostty.git $ cd ghostty $ ../zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0/zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast $ ./zig-out/bin/ghostty

Looks like there are a few deps needed: sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev git Otherwise you'll get this error: error: unable to spawn glib-compile-resources: FileNotFound Build Summary: 78/83 steps succeeded; 2 failed (disable with --summary none) install transitive failure └─ install ghostty transitive failure └─ zig build-exe ghostty ReleaseFast native transitive failure ├─ run glib-compile-resources (…

It's uncommon for upstream to provide .deb packages. That's not really how it's supposed to work. The Debian community creates Debian packages. Upstream's job is only to avoid making the Debian community's job more difficult than necessary. Unfortunately due to the decisions made by various popular Linux projects (mainly an obscene obsession with dynamic linking), it's not really feasible for upstreams to provide GUI applications on Linux. I hope someday this can change, but realistically there's not enough effort being put towards this goal.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #252
pzo wrote: post #213

Landing 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 AS…

Cross platform doesn't mean every single platform, and it is not common of terminals supporting android

It's true that you wouldn't normally expect a terminal to support Android, but generally one does expect "cross-platform" to mean Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by terminaltrove »

We've added Ghostty to the terminals section of Terminal Trove for comparison.

https://terminaltrove.com/terminals/ghostty/

You can find all terminals for comparison below and also the list of terminals (including Ghostty)

https://terminaltrove.com/compare/terminals/

https://terminaltrove.com/terminals/

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by onli »

samatman wrote: post #219
onli wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I'm honestly not sure what a OS native tab is supposed to be, on Linux. And I do not see why "emulated tabs" of WezTerm couldn't just do the actions that you describe. The Firefox tabs do after all, and they do not look like they are built according to some (GTK?) tab standard (GTK.Notebook?). I'm pretty sure that X11 does not have native tabs, while some window manager do. Is there a linux standard I'm just not aware of that you are referencing here?

Maybe it does not matter, the difference in functionality should count. Just highlighting that this messaging might not be understandable for linux users. I guess you are talking about some macOS thingie that's irrelevant to us.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by tapirl »

grantcarthew wrote: post #240
pzo wrote: post #213

Landing 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 AS…

I disagree, the landing page is just fantastic. I like the product as well, however, I need to use it for a week to comment.

I have to enable JavaScript to make it load. It seems the animation on the page requires JavaScript. So, I agree with @pzo that a GIF would be better in this case.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

mitchellh wrote: post #276
dr_kretyn wrote: post #258

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This isn't a company, I'm not trying to convince you to use it, this is more of a personal art project. If that doesn't vibe with you that's completely fine. You're happy to not use it. I'm happy whether you use it or not. It's all good mate. (The first sentence in the docs page does explain what it is but if that's too much for you, it's all good.)

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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

terminaltrove wrote: post #346

We've added Ghostty to the terminals section of Terminal Trove for comparison. https://terminaltrove.com/terminals/ghostty/ You can find all terminals for comparison below and also the list of terminals (including Ghostty) https://terminaltrove.com/compare/terminals/ https://terminaltrove.com/terminals/

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