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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by CraigJPerry »

emmelaich wrote: post #208

Already in homebrew if you want to use that! I'm very new to Ghostty and went looking for my favorite theme "Solarized Light"; it's listed as "iTerm2 Solarized Light" -- in contrast (heh) to "Solarized Dark"

Thanks for this lead - i eventually figured out there's 7 options:

    $ ghostty +list-themes
    /solari
And then in the ghostty config i could:

    theme = dark:Builtin Solarized Dark,light:Builtin Solarized Light

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by albedoa »

hitekker wrote: post #677
Fnoord wrote: post #675

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I'm interested in seeing examples (of Alacritty community not being nice). I'm aware of one now [1] but I have not been involved with the Alacritty community much. I read/write a few bug reports when the project was born; after that it has served me very well (compared to iTerm2 and Terminal.app). IIRC there was something with ligatures but I don't remember. Thus far I have not been able to get my italic bold…

One issue I noted was when they advertised poorly implemented cross-platform support https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27079234 and then told Mac users to use other terminals. And then another where one of their maintainers had a meltdown and his fellow dev jumped in to protect him from... a bug report on the color green https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1561 This was a few years ago so maybe they grew…

Yikes, that ramblerman who was all over that HN thread still posts today. The distance by which he missed the point is shocking. How does one get that far off without doing it deliberately?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by tristan957 »

cakealert wrote: post #404
tristan957 wrote: post #402

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would have the same problem with Qt. You don't have the xdg-desktop-portal and an associated backend running. If you're going to build your own Linux system, you should be aware of why something is broken before making a complaint to the wrong people. In this case, you misconfigured your own system.

Odd how a hundred other applications have no issues whatsoever then. This Portal is something from flatpak btw, no other terminal depends on it. This is likely some cancer from GTK that metastasized, anything using GTK has to lock it down tight to rely on the absolute minimum of "features".

Then don't use it.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by mike31fr »

mike31fr wrote: post #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?

TESTED:

1. Create a file with 1 million lines:

  for i in {1..1000000}; do echo "Line $i: This is a test of terminal performance."; done > bigfile.txt
2. cat the file and see how much time it takes:

  time cat bigfile.txt
RESULTS:

- iterm2: 3.5s

- Default macOS terminal: 2.3s

- Ghostty: 1.8s

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by pacifika »

rplnt wrote: post #538

Is there a way to restore session (windows, tabs, paths) after (application) start? How is this not default everywhere is beyond me (looking at Firefox). But my main point here would be that the lack of explorable configuration, and the docs not having any search, make it quite challenging search for this.

Are you saying Firefox doesn’t restore state?
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