Looks awesome, amazing work! Any particular/strong reason for choosing Zig for this?
Check "Why Zig" slide from this talk
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-pattern...
Ghostty 1.0
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Re: Ghostty 1.0
#472I couldn't find any screenshots, also, why is this being hyped so much? What have I missed?
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#473Compiled ok but crashed upon execution:
info: ghostty version=1.0.1-main+a8e5eef1
info: ghostty build optimize=ReleaseFast
info: runtime=apprt.Runtime.gtk
info: font_backend=font.main.Backend.fontconfig_freetype
info: dependency harfbuzz=8.4.0
info: dependency fontconfig=21402
info: renderer=renderer.OpenGL
info: libxev backend=main.Backend.io_uring
info(os): setlocale from env result=en_US.utf8
info(gtk): GTK version build=4.6.9 runtime=4.6.9
info: optional config file not found, not loading path=/home/xxxx/.config/ghostty/config
info(config): default shell source=env value=/usr/bin/bash
"vulkan-disable" is only available when building GTK with G_ENABLE_DEBUG. See GDK_DEBUG=help
info(gtk): libadwaita version build=1.1.7 runtime=1.1.7
(process:164888): Adwaita-WARNING **: 19:33:13.357: Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead.
error(gtk): unable to get current color scheme: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method “ReadOne”
info(grid): loaded OpenGL 3.2
warning(grid): OpenGL version is too old. Ghostty requires OpenGL 3.3
error(gtk_surface): surface failed to realize: error.OpenGLOutdated
info(sentry): sentry envelope does not contain crash, discarding
OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64
Host: 20QVCTO1WW ThinkPad X1 Extreme 2nd
Kernel: 6.9.3-76060903-generic
Uptime: 2 hours, 20 mins
Packages: 5314 (dpkg), 22 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Resolution: 3840x2160
DE: Plasma 5.25.5
WM: KWin
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: [Plasma], Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: Papirus-Dark [Plasma], Papirus-Dark [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
Terminal Font: JetBrains Mono 11
CPU: Intel i7-9750H (12) @ 4.500GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q
GPU: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
Memory: 6307MiB / 31738MiBRe: Ghostty 1.0
#474Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Aren't plaintext configuration files standard? It's how I configure most applications (and how I like it, because it makes the configuration shareable). As a DSL, it's key-value pairs. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
no, especially for an app that boasts to be "native"
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#475Compiled ok but crashed upon execution: info: ghostty version=1.0.1-main+a8e5eef1 info: ghostty build optimize=ReleaseFast info: runtime=apprt.Runtime.gtk info: font_backend=font.main.Backend.fontconfig_freetype info: dependency harfbuzz=8.4.0 info: dependency fontconfig=21402 info: renderer=renderer.OpenGL info: libxev backend=main.Backend.io_uring info(os): setlocale from env result=en_US.utf8 info(gtk): GTK versio…
You have OpenGL 3.2 but need 3.3
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#476Ghostty has a hard-to-find "quake mode" that may interest some. During the beta I had it configured like this on macOS: keybind = global:cmd+space=toggle_quick_terminal quick-terminal-animation-duration = 0.1 There isn't an option to set the default height of the "quick terminal" window that I'm aware of but you can drag the bottom of the window after it opens and it will persist between toggles.
Unfortunately no tab support yet in the quick terminal, and it does not work on top of fullscreen applications. Would be great if these things would work at some point. Currently I am using Wezterm and iTerm2 for the quake style terminal, but using two different terminals is quite annoying. I really miss Visor and TotalTerminal.
About tab support, you mean pressing the tab key to, for example, autocomplete a command?
That seems to work for me (macOS 15.2 here)
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#477- xterm still feel faster to me.
- some visual artifacts with the gtk menu
- sometimes prompt got clear when openning 2nd / 3rd windows
- cant get keybinding quick toggle to work
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#478I've been using Alacritty so I can switch back and forth from my work's Mac to my own Linux, and share the config, but I'm testing Ghostty and I'm really liking it. And no silly closed AI somethingsomething integration.
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#479Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, I redirect when there is to redirect, but sometimes during debugging you want to spam yourself to see what is happening during some stress testing when some code path is full of printfs. Also sometimes I'm just on the redis-cli and to test the system at scale I directly ask (like yesterday) for half million of similar vectors. It is very convenient I can type this on the CLI and see the result immediately, inst…
so, it's convenience. fair enough. i'm just trying to make sense of why it is so popular on hn. i often see stuff rated to mount everest here and i just don't get it. and then i'm wondering is it me? or is it them? am i one of those weak engineers who just don't know what's going on? that's all.
Since you asked, your point above effectively says "why don't you just work around your terminal emulator being slow by making more work for yourself?" That's not a compelling argument.
Re: Ghostty 1.0
#480- xterm still feel faster to me. - some visual artifacts with the gtk menu - sometimes prompt got clear when openning 2nd / 3rd windows - cant get keybinding quick toggle to work
In case you mean the quick terminal (ctrl+`):
keybind = global:ctrl+grave_accent=toggle_quick_terminal