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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by infensus »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #620

To be honest, I don't "get" ghostty. I am not really seeing how this is so much better than the GNOME terminal that ships with my Linux distro. A lot of people are claiming that ghostty is "faster." I watched the lightning talk where the author claims that catting files and binaries is faster. I tried this against ghostty itself after building with zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast, using: time cat ghostty. In GNOME t…

Are there any use cases for running `cat` on a binary without at least piping it somewhere? The output will be mostly garbage

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by phatskat »

rplnt wrote: post #537
manmal wrote: post #481

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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.

Thanks for the heads up - not sure I’ll be able to use it on my work laptop womp womp

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by pjz »

CarlitosHighway wrote: post #688
adamdecaf wrote: post #664

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That’s a problem with lazydocker, not ghostty. Maybe contribute to https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker/issues/610 ?

Do you have anything to back up this claim? Because it only crashes in Ghostty, and no other terminal emu I tried it in. Anyway, not my problem, I will just wait until it's fixed and if not, then I'll use one of the gazillion other ones that work 100%.

Crashing due to lack of a sufficient terminfo is indeed more of a lazydocker problem than a ghostty problem. See the issue above for a workaround.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by dotancohen »

Fnoord wrote: post #315
smw wrote: post #292

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

jj or qq can also be used. As I once started with GNU Screen ages ago, I like prefix to ctrl+a but it interferes with going to front of command in bash mode. For that, I use vi keybind mode in my shell (fish or bash) which feel very natural to me. For zellij, I use default prefix so that it does not interfere with remote (yes I am aware remote requires double prefix; I prefer using tmux remotely and zellij locally).

How are you configuring jj without interfering with using the key regularly? I used to have jj bound to ESC in VIM, loved it, but I've since trimmed back my config as I SSH into to many foreign systems to depend upon nonstandard behaviour. But I'd love to have it in Tmux.

The obvious `set -g prefix jj` throws an error that the key j is a bad key. Various experimenting with bind and unbind have not resulted in success, and I can't seem to find an example .tmux.conf with that config to copy.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by jdmg94 »

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…

how did you decided on building for arch and NixOS but not for red hat or debian?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by dcre »

ryanponce wrote: post #697
dcre wrote: post #338

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As an example, here is the Helix editor (neovim looks just as bad) in Terminal.app vs. ghostty (would look just as good in any other modern terminal). https://imgur.com/a/terminal-app-left-vs-truecolor-tddRL0C

Off topic but what Helix theme are you using here?

Some small tweaks on the built-in theme ayu_evolve.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by phatskat »

matwood wrote: post #610
gpanders wrote: post #250

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This gets brought up a lot, so I wrote about it here https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/

> This also means that native features like pressing Shift+⌘+\ open the tab overview, just as in other applications. Ah, so this is a macos thing and not just Safari. Can anyone help me select a tab using a keyboard? I use the shortcut, type in the search box and...have to use the mouse :(

I don’t recall where, and don’t have my laptop handy, but there is a macOS system option to enable tabbing through all controls (not just inputs), that _should_ do it

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by cztomsik »

arghwhat wrote: post #461
cztomsik wrote: post #429

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+1, no idea. But maybe to add a little bit of context, "damage tracking" means for example, that if there is any ongoing animation (like a spinner), then only a small part of the screen will be re-rendered (with proper vertex-time scissors, so only relevant pixels will be computed). I am not sure if it makes sense in the context of a terminal emulator, but it's certainly a big issue for any non-toy GUI toolkits. GPUs…

No, damage tracking is important as it about reporting that you only updated that spinner, which means that your display server also knows to only redraw and repaint that area, and in turn that your GPU knows during scanout that only that area changed. Without, even if you only redrew your spinner, your display server ends up having to redraw what might be a full screen 4k window, as well as every intersecting window…

That's what I meant to say. There are 2 parts, and both need to work correctly, otherwise you're wasting power.
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