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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by BoingBoomTschak »

fishgoesblub wrote: post #328
mitchellh wrote: post #280

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You can get pixel perfect bitmap fonts by using their TrueType conversions and using fractional point font sizes. There are dozens of bitmap enthusiasts that were in the beta and they're totally convinced because well... it's pixel identical. I've noted before in issues I'm open to supporting bitmap fonts if someone contributes it, but not interested in adding it myself. The workaround above is very good.

When using the original Terminus font failed, I tried the TTF version (Terminess) which in VSCode at specific point sizes is crisp and sharp. But with Ghostty, it was blurry and hard to read. At that point I gave up trying.

The reason might be that you need to have an "anti-aliasing" checkbox to untick on MacOS (generally in the font selection menu). I switched from Terminal to iTerm for that reason, on my work MBP.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by OrangeMusic »

shpx wrote: post #392
elAhmo wrote: post #135

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This is great, thanks! It would be amazing if CMD + , would open this directly.

I uninstalled the app when I saw that Cmd+, opens an empty text file called config. I'm not going to learn more configuration languages or type 30 characters (or paste them from the browser) to toggle a binary setting.

Same here. I was curious, so I installed it. First thing I tried to do was to change the text color, and saw there was no settings UI. This is a bit baffling to be honest.

Uninstalled it right away, I'll keep using the default MacOS Terminal app.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

btheunissen wrote: post #422
tessierashpool9 wrote: post #415

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why don't you just pipe it into a file and then less it? if your redis stuff prints so much stuff you might want to reevaluate the respective program logic.

Telling to creator of Redis that they might want to reevaluate their respective program logic (Redis) is pretty funny, only on HN :)

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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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antirez wrote: post #64

After 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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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by arendtio »

gpanders wrote: post #248
dsp_person wrote: post #142

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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.

Let's hope it will become available for Linux, too. I have been using Yakuake for over a decade now, mostly because I love how I can access the terminal everywhere with one button press.

At the same time, Yakuake seems to be in maintenance mode, and you should be happy when it works with new KDE versions.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by oefrha »

0x6c6f6c wrote: post #420
oefrha wrote: post #265

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> It's one of those things that you don't realize how poor the performance is until you experience something better. No, it’s one of those things I’ve tested myself extensively and arrived at my own conclusion. Which I already mentioned in the comment you responded to.

The performance talk is about ghostty, which you did not mention trying. You mention alacritty, which is GPU based and offers good performance, but you're quick to rebuttal on unrelated projects.

I only settled on Alacritty after giving all the new and supposedly fast terminal emulators a spin (at least a day for various tasks).

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by rainbowjelly »

shpx wrote: post #392
elAhmo wrote: post #135

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This is great, thanks! It would be amazing if CMD + , would open this directly.

I uninstalled the app when I saw that Cmd+, opens an empty text file called config. I'm not going to learn more configuration languages or type 30 characters (or paste them from the browser) to toggle a binary setting.

A GUI for settings is planned so you can try again in the future.
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