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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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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…

What I like about foot is the heuristics governing text selection with the mouse. I find that more often than not, if I double click with the mouse on some text, what it ends up selecting is just the part I need.

I actually have to fight this feature a lot, but I appreciate what it's trying to do. For me the issue is I'm often trying to triple click to select full IRC lines and it keeps only selecting parts of the line because the person had put some quotes in part of what they said, and the selection "smartly" will only select the area between two quotes, even if those quotes were the ending of a pair on the left and start of a pair on the right, aka not even truly quoted text is being selected, but all the un-quoted text between two pairs of quoted text. The solution is to click a different spot, usually the timestamp is the safest, but I find I naturally drift toward the far right side of the terminal for selecting lines, or sometimes somewhere in the middle.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#662

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That could have been acceptable. The problem is it's empty; it should instead contain the default configuration.

You can see the default configuration by running `ghostty +show-config --default`

In that case it should be easy to prefill the config file if it doesn't already exist.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#663

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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/

Yay, it looks great! Thanks! \o/

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#664

Love this in theory but the first time user experience could be improved: $ brew install ghostty Launch it, don't configure anything, in the new terminal window then enter: $ lazydocker Response: 2024/12/28 09:04:42 An error occurred! Please create an issue at https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker/issues *exec.ExitError exit status 1 /home/runner/work/lazydocker/lazydocker/main.go:96 (0x9397d7) /opt/hostedtoolc…

That’s a problem with lazydocker, not ghostty.

Maybe contribute to https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker/issues/610 ?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#665
Looks pretty cool! Unfortunately I can't use it yet, as I am on a Ubuntu-based distro (Pop! OS 22.04), so my GTK version is not high enough. I imaging that's the case for a lot of people who stick to LTS versions. I may check it out on my Mac for work though

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#666
So i've basically been a terminal.app purist, but downloaded ghostty on a whim because of all the excitement...

I did not realize it would be THAT much faster. I guess I should have started using better terminals earlier

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#667
post #26

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

Oh wow, this great! Is it your project? Either your post deserves more upvoted, or this link deserves it's own post. Thanks for this one! <3

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#668
There are MANY problems with the default configuration. For example, the UP/DOWN key doesn't work, the TERM is xterm-ghostly...

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#669
Many people here seem impressed about speed/performance. I have been using all sorts of terminals / emulators over the past 20 years and it never occurred to me a terminal can be slow. When I type a command, I just get the result instantaneously, for any terminal. What are the use cases that can make a terminal be slow?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#670

Nice addition. Slightly more CPU heavy than Kitty. in MacOS yabai tiling manager has problems dealing with native tabs, that's gonna annoy me like with Finder. also in MacOS try pressing "Cmd + Shift + \", also works in Finder, it's there, it's cool, but I never use it.

That's neat but how do I select a panel afterwards? Arrow keys do nothing and hjkl start a search.

On my system it's ctrl+tab to cycle through tabs, then escape to open the one that is currently highlighted.
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