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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by homebrewer »

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.

kitty has a nicely formatted config which lists all settings along with their default values and a very detailed description of each one. It's pretty much the same as having a GUI. Maybe Ghostty can adopt this?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by dcre »

tessierashpool9 wrote: post #521
robenkleene wrote: post #479

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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.

not really - the use case mentioned where you suffer from a slow terminal is a code smell as far as i am concerned

No it isn’t.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by whoisstan »

herpdyderp wrote: post #229
jitl wrote: post #161

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I was using iTerm up until about a week ago when I unboxed a new Mac and decided to test out alternatives while setting it up. Ghostty wasn't out yet so I started with Wezterm, and was shocked to find how much it's speed improved my terminal experience. Typing latency is much better in nvim, and scrolling is vastly improved in nvim and tmux. Ghostty feels like a Mac app like iTerm2 while being fast and having fewer f…

Is iTerm2 noticeably slow? I just use the built in Terminal app and I can’t imagine “speed” being a reason to switch away from it. (There is no lack of speed.)

Same, I use it all the time and never perceived it as slow. I am not a tmux user, maybe the speed is noticeable when using more complex terminal apps like that?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by blondin »

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…

thank you and the community for the work. i hope to see blocks (not sure if this is a shell thing or a terminal thing) the same way warp does it :)

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by 38 »

baaym wrote: post #403
navigate8310 wrote: post #204

Any love for Windows. I'm getting restless to ditch putty but unable to find any good emulator that has select and login style of management screen.

Apparently it works great on WSL See this other user's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42518033

For the 10th time WSL is not windows, it's a Linux emulator.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by rplnt »

manmal wrote: post #481
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..…

Note, if someone is trying this, that you need to grant accessibility permissions for it to work when Ghostty isn't focused.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by rplnt »

Is there a way to restore session (windows, tabs, paths) after (application) start? How is this not default everywhere is beyond me (looking at Firefox).

But my main point here would be that the lack of explorable configuration, and the docs not having any search, make it quite challenging search for this.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by noisy_boy »

nacs wrote: post #508
noisy_boy wrote: post #473

Compiled 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…

Also same issue. Seems it’s using a bleeding edge OpenGL ES that even nVidia drivers don’t support.

I raised an issue for this: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3435

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by artooro »

This happens to be exactly what I was looking for in a Terminal app. Native UI, fast, and native screen splitting, doesn't try to do too much. Five stars
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