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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by homebrewer »

Crisco wrote: post #46
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 wouldn't say I love tmux, but I have a configuration file that I put on every computer I use regularly that is very comfortable for me. I basically live in the terminal across many different machines, and having the same interface for managing panes and tabs even when using ssh is invaluable. I also use vim (well neovim) as my primary editor, and have set up tmux to integrate well with it, so that might contribute…

If you spend any amount of time on remote machines with unreliable connections, local tmux is insta-reject because tmux inside tmux is very inconvenient. As with GP, it's also why I don't consider terminal emulators without tabs at all.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by p0w3n3d »

On the new mac tahoe with rounded corners (which are really frustrating to me), ghostty should add small margin on the bottom, because the font is sometimes renedered on it and letters are cut (rarely but infuriating, when it happens)

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by pkulak »

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.…

Foot is worth a look. It’s the only terminal I’ve ever seen that starts up in sub-50ms cold, without a service already running.

But you do have to run a proper window manager so you don’t have to require tab support in every single app. ;)

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by jcgl »

stonegray wrote: post #70
dr_dshiv wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for all the work you do! I had used terminal just a few dozen times before November — and now i am in terminal more than any app (even more than the web browser). It’s common for me to have 15-25 different terminal windows open for using Claude code. I shifted to Ghostty because I was looking for more features. Unfortunately, none of the features I wanted are available anywhere (though I’ve come to appreciate…

IMO this isn’t the job of the emulator. You can do this all in `tmux` for example. As for editing text, ghostty+tmux most definitely supports editing text with the mouse (even an in terminal right click menu!) although sounds like your intended use of select to delete isn’t common so you’ll need to do some customizations.

What makes you say that isn't the job the emulator? Sure it is. In fact, tmux itself is a terminal emulator that you just so happen to run inside of another terminal emulator that you want to multiplex.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by DiabloD3 »

dwedge wrote: post #77
arccy wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ancient systems like Debian 12?

Ghostty did not submit their terminfo to the database until the Dec 30th 2025 release of ncurses 6.6.

Any distro older than this does not include Ghostty by default.

Alacritty was added in the Feb 2020 release, as well as Kitty. Wezterm was added in the April 2024 release.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by homebrewer »

lomlobon wrote: post #11

How's the latency? I've had to keep using xterm even though it kind of sucks just because it's got the lowest latency by quite a bit.

Have you tried kitty with more aggressive settings? It feels very responsive out of the box, but the defaults are balanced for sane energy use on portable machines.

  repaint_delay 5
  input_delay 1
  sync_to_monitor no

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by tasuki »

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.

> I love Ghostty, especially the UI is so much nicer than Kitty.

What are you talking about? What UI does Kitty have?

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by pbjerkeseth »

I have a terminal manager project[0] I'm currently using xterm for, but very curious to try libghostty. Have mainly been hesitant because it hasn't been promoted from an internal ghostty dependency (only awareness of the place was from this article by the creator[1]), but from the sounds of it here people are finding it stable enough. Gonna give it a whirl today.

[0]: https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit [1]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by hesdeadjim »

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…

Random advice question. My brother taught himself to program and has been making a terminal-based game. What started out small has turned into a highly polished game with ascii art, sound, you name it.

I’ve been trying to figure out how I could actually help him distribute it and I keep coming back to the best option being to wrap his programs terminal output into a host process that can emulate and render it. It seems that the lib Ghostty might be perfect for the former, but not quite yet on the latter?

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by cess11 »

loeg wrote: post #62
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 haven't seen anyone else mention Terminology yet. It uses an unconventional GUI framework (Enlightenment / EFL), but that aside, it's fast and has more or less all of the features you'd expect of a terminal: https://github.com/borisfaure/terminology Its "moment" as a new novel terminal was over a decade ago, but it still chugs on working just fine. Notably(?), gregkh uses it (or used to use it): https://www.linuxfo…

Back in 2018 I thought it felt kind of sluggish and consumed quite a bit of resources, but looked pretty. Have they improved on performance since then?
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