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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…
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.
The default macOS terminal app has CMD UP/DOWN to move to previous prompts. This is one of my pet peeves about terminal apps, they seem to lack this command?
Not even cmd up/down, just hit up/down key, no cmd needed
What am I missing? Can someone please explain what reason there is to switch/build a new terminal when we can use e.g. iTerm ?
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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.
When I try to ssh into one of my servers using this terminal I get the following: missing or unsuitable terminal: xterm-ghostty Connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx closed. (IP address removed by me.) It turned out that this is associated with how I automatically run tmux by having the following kind of config for how I connect to that server. Host server3000 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/host_specific/foo/bar/server3000/id_ed25519_b…
https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo
SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color
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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...
Hasn’t Suse been KDE by default since… as long as I can remember? Debian defaults to GNOME but it lets you pick the DE in the installer IIRC (haven’t installed Debian in a long time since I just use it for servers). Last I heard, Fedora is making KDE an official supported DE. You’re also leaving out other popular user-centric distros like Mint which don’t use either DE (toolkit it GTK but the UX paradigms makes it so…
Ghostty 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.
Ghostty 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…
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.
Every HN thread about it that I've seen has been full of comments that boil down to "this seems cool but I refuse to use a terminal emulator that's full of telemetry and requires sign-in."
And of course the VC-funded terminal emulator has AI shoehorned in now. I shouldn't be so surprised.
tldr: you're setting a low bar