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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by WD-42 »

mitchellh wrote: post #33

I'm the original creator of Ghostty. It's been a few years now! I don't know why this is on the front page of HN again but let me give some meaningful updates across the board. First, libghostty is _way more exciting_ nowadays. It is already backing more than a dozen terminal projects that are free and commercial: https://github.com/Uzaaft/awesome-libghostty I think this is the real future of Ghostty and I've said th…

Mitchell,

What has it been like witnessing terminal emulators make such a huge comeback with the advent of Claude Code et. all? I remember comments here in the early days of Ghostty along the lines of "Why is he working on a terminal emulator? We need people working on future problems, not the past!" Pretty funny considering I regularly hear people say they are in the terminal more than the browser now. Crazy times!

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by tux1968 »

Ghostty's terminfo entry doesn't enable 24-bit color*, and as far as I can tell they don't provide a "ghostty-direct" entry that does. It just seemed odd that it's completely supported and working, yet not easily enabled. Maybe I just missed a trick, and didn't need to make a custom terminfo entry myself?

* "msgcat --color=test" is an easy test that shows the blending of 24-bit color, or blocky gradients otherwise.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by icedrift »

Myzel394 wrote: post #68

I love Ghostty, especially the UI is so much nicer than Kitty. However, for some reason ghostty sometimes has severe issues with dealing with SSH connections. The terminal is like broken and wrongly displayed and you can't properly type something. Therefore, I still use Kitty, especially for SSH connections. I don't know what `kitten ssh` does, but it makes my terminal work with SSH.

This is what kills it for me. Half the time I'm using a terminal I'm sshing and the fact that I need to copy over term-info on virtually every machine keeps me from using it more often. Even copying term-info doesn't always fix it. From what I've read it's not entirely ghostty's fault but as a user it's frustrating.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by tw1984 »

just installed ghostty, looks cool. but my honest question is how it is significantly better than iterm2 to justify such a switch? I am aware of the fact that it is faster, uses less memory, various configurations is more straight forward. but is that all?

I have the feeling that I must be missing something big here.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by s_ting765 »

kccqzy wrote: post #67
s_ting765 wrote: post #52

I tried this out after getting annoyed for the 100th time by a recent bug in kgx/console that will occasionally fail to launch windows leaving incomplete windows as tabs. Console has long since become abandonware pushing people towards ptyxis which is now the default gnome terminal. A damn shame considering console is basically complete software (the quality of software in gnome is on a downhill). I would have given…

What features related to distrobox? I use both ptyxis and distrobox and I don’t notice any integration between them. I do notice an integration between ptyxis and sudo however. It simply turns the title bar red.

> Ptyxis: Your Container-Oriented Terminal for GNOME

> A modern terminal emulator built for the container era. Seamlessly navigate between your host system and local containers like Podman, Toolbox, and Distrobox with intelligent detection and a beautiful, responsive GNOME interface.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/blob/main/README....

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by dwedge »

arccy wrote: post #69
dwedge wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might be a bug in remote handling and I might have unfairly called out GhostTTY for this, but "forgetting to update terminfo on my remote system" just doesn't hold with the way I work. I work managing different systems for different clients and often login to systems for the first time. The servers aren't mine, and configuring something like Ansible to configure my home just seems like a waste of time for little b…

you could also stick this in ssh config, generally makes terminals work with ancient systems...: SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color

Ancient systems like Debian 12?

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by everforward »

pdimitar wrote: post #28

Recently tried multiple terminals because I am gradually migrating off of Macs and I liked Ghostty but the lack of searching the scrollback has turned me away from it. Opening another editor to do the same I tried but didn't like. WezTerm has everything I need and is closest to iTerm2, minus being able to quit it and have it restore all windows and tabs on restart -- but oh well, it's not an important enough feature.…

I like tmux because it does more than tabs in an emulator. I can detach from a session on a remote host to leave a process running after I disconnect, or to pick the session back up on another PC.

I do use tabs rather than repeatedly switching tmux sessions, but I do end up running tmux for splitting the GUI into side by side layouts.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by thallavajhula »

When Ghostty was publicly announced, I used it for a few months and gave up on it due to the lack of support for the CMD+F feature that I use Terminal.app. This is a critical feature for me while tailing logs on my local. I tried the workaround of capturing the text into a text file and then searching it. It just didn't work for my workflow and dropped it. Ghostty is great otherwise. But, without the CMD+F, it's of no use to me.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by yearolinuxdsktp »

It’s a shame that version 1.2.x got abandoned and didn’t receive any important bug fixes. That has severely cut my trust into this project. It’s been over 4 months since the last 1.2.3 release, so the memory leak when using Claude is not addressed, my Ghostty crashes are not addressed (crash reporter doesn’t work), I don’t even bother looking at the issues anymore, as I know I am not getting the fixes for a long time.

And I’m not running a critical piece of productivity software on a nightlies channel!

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