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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by manmal »

modernerd wrote: post #20

Ghostty 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.

I'm using ctrl+` :

    keybind = global:ctrl+grave_accent=toggle_quick_terminal
It was the first thing I made sure ghostty supported it before trying it.

Setting the initial height of the quick terminal is under development: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/2384

Lack of tab support in the quick terminal is a bummer, but it should come eventually: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/2329#issuecomm...

For now, splits are the way to go in the quick terminal.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by Emigre_ »

mitchellh wrote: post #48

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…

I've been looking forward to it for a while, I'm really happy about this. Thanks for your work on this project.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by manmal »

tecleandor wrote: post #476
milgrim wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

GP means creating a new tab with CMD+T, which works in the normal ghostty terminal. iTerm2 does support tabs in its hotkey windows (~= ghostty's quick terminal).

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by Emigre_ »

I'm excited about the fact that this is written in Zig. I'm a Kitty user at the moment, but if this delivers I'll change to Ghostty.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

kaycey2022 wrote: post #238
howon92 wrote: post #116

To people who tried using it, what are the reasons to use it over iTerm2?

I am not a very adept terminal user. I just hook in to tmux. So all emulators are basically the same for me. Switching windows in tmux is much faster than clicking on tabs. ghostty at least looks much nicer. It has a lot of built in fonts and themes. Command line editing is similar. Man pages for some reason are very slow to open in iterm2, but that isn't the case here. The only deal breaker for me is that it takes u…

> Switching windows in tmux is much faster than clicking on tabs.

Sure, if you're clicking tabs... A fairer comparison would be between the keyboard shortcut to switch windows in tmux and the native keyboard shortcut to switch tabs.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

naikrovek wrote: post #227
RainyDayTmrw wrote: post #211

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.

I am not sure how to answer this. Why choose a non-default anything? It feels like deeper down, you’re asking why anyone chooses anything. These terminal emulators all behave slightly differently and have different strengths and weaknesses. Some are configurable. Some are programmable. Some feel “right”. Others can be made to feel “right”. Etc. Why use any non-default application? Same answer for terminal emulators.

> These terminal emulators all behave slightly differently

That's the point. Different browsers or word processors behave completely differently. They were asking what differences there are between this and other TEs.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

mitchellh wrote: post #48

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…

Congrats on your 1.0 release! Building a term from scratch is no small task. And it looks like after 2 years you already have something I'm seriously considering switching to. That's seriously impressive. And though I'm mostly a Linux supremacist, I genuinely appreciate and respect your dedication to providing native applications on all major platforms. I see too many projects do one of two things: only support one platform at first, with some vague promise of doing others in the future left unfulfilled for years. Or going the easy route of using electron or some other cross-platform toolkit, getting cross-platform support at the cost of a significantly worse experience. There is no substitute for doing the extra work, at the end of the day, and you're already well on your way there at such an early point. Again, I'm impressed!

Now, the one thing I've coveted for years is a linux term with tmux control mode support, ever since I used iterm2 during my short tenure as a Mac user. I can see from your github issues that this is in the works(https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/1935), which is great. It looks like a lot of the necessary UI elements are already in place, as well as partial support for the control mode protocol. Do you have any idea how far off this is from being completed? I don't wanna make demands or anything, I know this is a passion project with lots of things still to work on. As far as I know(and I look around quite often) control mode support is still something no existing term for linux supports. Being the first could drive a lot of adoption! I'd also like to offer my help in pushing it over the goal line. I haven't touched Zig, but I'm a polyglot with plenty C experience and Im highly motivated to bring this feature to my Linux systems. Some guidance on things I might do to help would be welcome. The final 3 points of the checklist don't have much detail provided.

Again, no pressure, thanks for all your amazing work, and good luck with continued development!

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by matwood »

zerebos wrote: post #282
videlov wrote: post #26

I have found the following community site for generating Ghostty config quite helpful https://ghostty.zerebos.com/

Hey this is my tool, thanks for sharing! I've been very happy with how well received it has been so far!

Great tool! Thank you.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

mkl wrote: post #419
dchest wrote: post #368

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole home page is a screenshot and two buttons.

But not showing any of the native interface elements that are supposed to set this terminal emulator apart.

The home page is obviously going for 'quirky', but it's mad that it doesn't even say "...is a terminal emulator" anywhere. At first, I thought Ghostty was an ASCII animation library! I guess the name's suffix should've clued me in, but that's easy to overlook in a hurry.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by christophilus »

I use Foot as my terminal and Niri as my WM. It’s a great combo. Niri handles splits for me, and I don’t need tabs. I also turn off all window decorations, so my terminal content gets 100% of the terminal’s screen real estate-- so I don't need a native UI. All that said, it looks like Ghosty can be configured to match this setup, so I’ll give it a try. I just wanted to mention Foot to anyone who is running Linux. Foot is a simple, focused project.
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