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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by frereubu »

balou23 wrote: post #463
sambeau wrote: post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love this page in your docs: https://ghostty.org/docs/about Clear, friendly, modest, respectful and with the right balance of detail vs overview. Congratulations on your launch.

I'm not sure why they couldn't put that on the front page. Or at least on the front page of the documentation. As it stands now, the front page is pretty useless if you never heard of ghostty. It's a ghost in a terminal? And there's tty in the name.... so is it a program to show ghosts in your terminal?

Absolutely agree, even if it was just the tagline on the first page of the documentation - "Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration." - underneath the "screenshot" and above the buttons on the homepage.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by terminaltrove »

kseistrup wrote: post #607
terminaltrove wrote: post #583

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean here? https://terminaltrove.com/categories/ (1) Or any other category on the page? (2) We can change (1) alphabetically if that is what you mean.

Yes, those categories. I should have been more explicit. I found it confusing to look for a category among the unsorted boxes. It would help if they were sorted.

It is now sorted on the categories section.

https://terminaltrove.com/categories/

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by ur-whale »

Real nice so far.

The fact it does its own window decoration is a bit of a turn-off, but:

A quick test of speed against wezterm and gnome-terminal show ghostty (on my laptop) to be around 3 times faster than both of the other.

Will definitely try it for a couple of weeks.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by ur-whale »

thornewolf wrote: post #633

i use the base mac/Windows terminals and have never had any issues. what are the main things that draw people to alternatives?

> what are the main things that draw people to alternatives?

Speed.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by geodel »

I wonder if there is any equivalent of 'iterm2 broadcast input' in ghostty. I use this pattern to deploy same application on multiple servers or checking logs on multiple servers for same service.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by imron »

diggan wrote: post #562
imron wrote: post #186

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That's a great approach. Not sure on the current state of Alacritty, but a few years back the suggested solution for users interested in battery performance was to switch to a different terminal emulator: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3473#issuecomm...

I, a person who don't care about battery performance one iota (because my computer has no battery), love this answer and approach. Not every software is for everyone, and authors drawing a line in the sand like that works out better for everyone in the long-term, instead of software that kind of works OK for everything.

More than happy for software authors to draw a line in the sand - I’ve done that myself too.

I just find myself on the other side of the line for Alacritty.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by ur-whale »

xtat wrote: post #595

My takeaway is that it's mostly useful for apple stuff-- why would "platform native" matter on Linux?

You should try it.

I'm on Linux, and first impression is ghostty is really good. Speed in particular is impressive.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by globular-toast »

ramon156 wrote: post #566
christophilus wrote: post #490

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. Foo…

Is it weird that I never considered foot because of the name? At least when you say "alacritty" i understand that it's a terminal. When I tell someone I use "foot"... I don't know, it doesn't give a good feeling.

What about when you tell someone you "cat" a file or use "sudo"? Who cares what normies think?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by vinhnx »

Everything about it is so polished, it’s hard to believe it’s just a v1.0.0 release!

The only thing I’m eagerly waiting for now is the implementation of search [1], but otherwise, it’s absolutely stellar.!

I set Ghostty as my default terminal emulator now.

[1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189

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