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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by aidenn0 »

tristan957 wrote: post #397
aidenn0 wrote: post #376

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It is almost impressive how much worse a GTK4/Adwaita application is compared to a GTK2 application. I just tried this and it has a fucking hamburger menu in a desktop application. If that ever becomes what is considered "native" on Linux I will abandon it after using it for 25 years.

You are free to take libghostty and create an XApp app runtime for it, or even fork it and do what you want. Just because you don't like something does not make it worse.

Oh, GhostTTY is a great project. I also agree that some flavor of Gnome is the default out of the box on most distros. I'm bemoaning that fact, not the existence of an excellent terminal library and 3 frontends for it that I will never use.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by kaycey2022 »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #485
kaycey2022 wrote: post #238

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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.

which is prefix+number in tmux. I don't know if you can easily jump to a tab with a visible index in ghostty.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by kseistrup »

terminaltrove wrote: post #346

We've added Ghostty to the terminals section of Terminal Trove for comparison. https://terminaltrove.com/terminals/ghostty/ You can find all terminals for comparison below and also the list of terminals (including Ghostty) https://terminaltrove.com/compare/terminals/ https://terminaltrove.com/terminals/

How come TT's categories aren't listed alphabetically?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by eapotapov »

eapotapov wrote: post #547
nhumrich wrote: post #68

In case anyone is wondering, this terminal appears to work just great on windows by using WSLg. I installed on linux inside WSL, then launched it, and it looks/works great. Clipboard also works.

Thanks! I did it, but I'm having problems with window resizing and mouse selection. When I try to resize the window, the actual window is smaller than it appears. Did you encounter the same issue? Related issues: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/1008 https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/633

oh, it's actually a problem with ultra-wide screens and there is no simple resolution for this and I gave up https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/590

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by bhasi »

smw wrote: post #292
dotancohen wrote: post #104

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I also use tmux, but I love the native tabs of Konsole in KDE. I have Shift-Arrow configured to move between them, it is far more comfortable than the dual shortcuts needed by tmux, Ctrl-B to call tmux's attention then l (if I remember correctly) to get to the last tab. Konsole also has easy resizing of text and supports images in the console, you might like it.

Try binding the tmux leader key to '`' (grave accent). This changed my life!

I second this. I wouldn't have been able to make tmux such an integral part of my daily workflow if it weren't for this binding that I came across in someone's starter tmux conf many years ago.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by someothherguyy »

pzo wrote: post #213

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…

A noscript tag on the landing page with a link to the repository's readme would be appreciated (or ssr the react). There are a small number of users who don't enable javascript for every domain.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by d3m0t3p »

metaltyphoon wrote: post #507
d3m0t3p wrote: post #499

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Just try it. I tried and the launch was so smooth that I'm keeping it a few days to test it. My current biggest problem is that I launch my terminal using the spotlight shortcut (⌘-space on mac) and while iterm2 is found when I search for term, ghostty isn't.

It took a minute for me, but it did find it. Something is off with macOS indexing. Any app that you install via brew takes a bit to show up.

I'm not complaining about the indexing (you can start the indexing by starting spotlight on and off). I'm complaining about having to search for "ghos..." instead of "term...". Because I don't don't like to remember the specific app name. But this complaint is the same for everything; when searching for Excel, I would like "Numbers" to also show up in the results. When looking for vscode I would like "Visual Studio code" to also show up, but I need to type either code, visual or studio.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by quantonganh »

jitl wrote: post #155
howon92 wrote: post #116

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

It’s fast. In the same league as Alacritty and Wezterm, which is to say on the doom fire benchmark those terminals can do 500fps plus, where iTerm2 does 90fps on my M4 MacBook Pro. In practical terms if you use tmux or vim in the terminal, it makes a big difference for typing latency and scrolling.

Where should I look first if I only get around 160 fps, while WezTerm gets 400+ fps?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by ksec »

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…

Congratulations.

On the cross-platform library, I wonder why "libGhostty" and not libTerminal. Which seems like a more appropriate in term of library?

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