This is a neat blog post explaining part of the magic:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gpanders.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ghostty-is-native-so-what&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gpanders.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ghostty-is-native-so-what&#x2F;</a>

thanks Mitchell for all the hard work, it&#x27;s nice to see quality and competition in this field

native UI is so much more than how a border of a window looks like.

Your rebuttal is not mutually exclusive to the parent comment. They say it’s the first _new_ such thing in a while, not that there aren’t any in existence.

Can&#x27;t edit my post anymore so replying to myself with an addendum:I wrote the comment in a rush last night and I think it sounds like I&#x27;m dumping on ghostty. That is not my intention, it looks very well made and a true passion project which I have lot of respect for.I just took issue with GP adding yet more hype to this.

&gt; I like where we&#x27;re headed with tools like this and Ladybird[0] for hope of a subscriptionless future.That&#x27;s a weird statement. I&#x27;ve been running a free, open-source and subscription-less browser (firefox) and terminal emulator (many) for close to 20 years.Actually I like what ladybird is doing in the browser space, given firefox is quite dependent on google cash. But this is just yet another terminal emulator in a sea of them. The only two distinguishing features I can see are hype and native UI (which mac users care about for some reason -- my native UI is a borderless rectangle in tiling WM).

&gt;first bit of high quality open source softwareThat feels like an exaggregation. L
High quality open source software is uploaded daily to GitHub.

I&#x27;m very excited to have this because it&#x27;s the first bit of high quality open source software to hit the streets in a while.I like where we&#x27;re headed with tools like this and Ladybird[0] for hope of a subscriptionless future.Thank you, Mitchell![0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ladybird.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ladybird.org&#x2F;</a>

The author has a dev log I’d recommend if you’re curious about what makes it different + general goodies on Zig&#x2F;terminal emulators.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;ghostty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;ghostty</a>

Awesome, I have been waiting for this since you originally announced it. I also enjoyed the blog posts.

tried this doesn&#x27;t work do i need some specific zig version?

$ git clone git@github.com:ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty.git$ cd ghostty$ zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast$ .&#x2F;zig-out&#x2F;bin&#x2F;ghostty

well you&#x27;ll have to get a DD on board to do the work and zig isn&#x27;t even in debian so that&#x27;d have to get there first and the person wanting the terminal probably doesn&#x27;t want to maintain the programming language as well. So that probably means 2 DDs. Again, there is a non-normal distance here.

I imagine package managers will start picking this up shortly since it just released publicly.

Yeah, it&#x27;s not available in the Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu package managers, but building from source is quite trivial.

I assume this is mostly a mac thing? The effort to get this up and running on debian appears to be a bit more work than normal.

This is great. I’m middle aged and I’ve definitely noticed my eyesight needs more and more help in the contrast dept

Another goodie is selection-foreground and selection-background config to set the colour for highlight selection, makes a massive difference when it&#x27;s something you can choose rather than the translucent crap on mac, or the defaults on Windows&#x2F;Linux.

I just want to say thanks for the minimum-contrast option: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;reference#minimum-contrast" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;reference#minimum-contrast</a>I&#x27;ve grown so sick of tools&#x2F;TUIs that output unreadable text (like Debian&#x27;s ls that defaults to dark-blue-on-black for directories). I look forward to never manually theming a terminal app again!

Yes, your name will forever be on that pull request.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dgl.cx&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;ghostty-terminal-title" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dgl.cx&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;ghostty-terminal-title</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;security&#x2F;advisories&#x2F;GHSA-5hcq-3j4q-4v6p">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;security&#x2F;advisories&#x2F;G...</a>

Only as of 1.0 release I believe was their point.

source is open <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty</a>

So I will see how well it works on FreeBSD, but I love the development model, keeping it &quot;closed&quot; for the 1.0 (focus and polish), I have not tested it yet, but it already &quot;feels&quot; like professional engineering work.

Likewise coming from alacritty myself. This out of the box gives me everything I really want and does it well. Not to mention the development process was quite refreshing to see. Decision making process for sane defaults and to allow customization quite easily.Nicely done.

I&#x27;ve been using Ghostty for several months now (used Alacritty before that). Ghostty is really, really good. It&#x27;s fast, it gets the text rendering right (many cross-platform terminals struggle with this), and it has all the features I need.It&#x27;s also some very well-written Zig code. We use some of the code for graphemes in Bun for `Bun.stringWidth`.

This is the first thing I went looking for when looking at the docs, thank you.

Thank you! First thing I was looking for too. Cannot imagine trying a terminal without this.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config</a>On macOS, pressing ⌘+comma with Ghostty in focus opens the config file.Quit and reopen Ghostty to load the updated config (or bind another key to the reload_config action: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;keybind&#x2F;reference#reload_config" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;keybind&#x2F;reference#reload_con...</a> ).Keybinds are explained here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;reference#keybind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;reference#keybind</a>

Where does one add this? Is there a config file?

You can always run tmux inside. I personally don&#x27;t use tabs in my terminal emulator at all, because I use tmux tabs for everything.It may not work for you, of course.

Downside is that the quick terminal doesn&#x27;t support tabs. Unfortunately that&#x27;s currently a dealbreaker for me.

it should do. on Linux it uses GTK which supports Wayland these days

Does this work under Wayland? I remember that being an issue for Guake.

Hmm any way for this to work in kde plasma wayland?In yakuake they have to register the Open&#x2F;Retract shortcut with KGlobalAccel [1] and I don&#x27;t think global shortcuts are implemented otherwise[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KDE&#x2F;yakuake&#x2F;blob&#x2F;164d24b8bad1175199260c627be30d623802465c&#x2F;app&#x2F;mainwindow.cpp#L254">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KDE&#x2F;yakuake&#x2F;blob&#x2F;164d24b8bad1175199260c62...</a>

About tab support, you mean pressing the tab key to, for example, autocomplete a command?That seems to work for me (macOS 15.2 here)

Unfortunately no tab support yet in the quick terminal, and it does not work on top of fullscreen applications. 
Would be great if these things would work at some point.Currently I am using Wezterm and iTerm2 for the quake style terminal, but using two different terminals is quite annoying. 
I really miss Visor and TotalTerminal.

Love me some quake style terminals, will check this out

Amazing, thanks! This is most of how I use a terminal. Will give it a go.

I disable cmd+space for Spotlight in macOS System Preferences.You could try another keybind:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;reference#keybind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;reference#keybind</a>Also be sure to quit and reopen Ghostty or use the reload configuration option from the Ghostty menu.

Doesn&#x27;t seem to like that keybind now, and searching the docs doesn&#x27;t give me answer. Do you know if something still works?Also, why cmd+space? That&#x27;s the MacOS spotlight search binding.

Note, if someone is trying this, that you need to grant accessibility permissions for it to work when Ghostty isn&#x27;t focused.

I&#x27;m using ctrl+` :<pre><code> keybind = global:ctrl+grave_accent=toggle_quick_terminal
</code></pre>
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: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2384">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2384</a>Lack of tab support in the quick terminal is a bummer, but it should come eventually: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2329#issuecomment-2550135757">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2329#issuecomm...</a>For now, splits are the way to go in the quick terminal.

Ghostty has a hard-to-find &quot;quake mode&quot; that may interest some.During the beta I had it configured like this on macOS:<pre><code> keybind = global:cmd+space=toggle_quick_terminal
 quick-terminal-animation-duration = 0.1
</code></pre>
There isn&#x27;t an option to set the default height of the &quot;quick terminal&quot; window that I&#x27;m aware of but you can drag the bottom of the window after it opens and it will persist between toggles.

It was the first thing I check whenever I try a new terminal. If Terminus doesn&#x27;t work then the terminal doesn&#x27;t work for me.

Curious as to how much it matters; if a TTF font looks similar and is fast?

fyi, I have just tried Unifont and worked perfectly.

Thanks for this post, first thing I did was search &quot;bitmap&quot; in the thread. If I can&#x27;t use Terminus (+Unifont fallback), it&#x27;s not for me.

IMO the main reason is high DPI screens. On macs it&#x27;s essentially the default, and it&#x27;ll probably become the default in the future for everything. Since bitmap fonts make much more sense with low pixel density I think it&#x27;s not going to be a priority for any newly developed apps.

&gt;it doesn&#x27;t support bitmap fontsVery disappointing. Not sure why people are trying to kill off bitmap support in everything these days. Will stick with foot.

When using the original Terminus font failed, I tried the TTF version (Terminess) which in VSCode at specific point sizes is crisp and sharp. But with Ghostty, it was blurry and hard to read. At that point I gave up trying.

You can get pixel perfect bitmap fonts by using their TrueType conversions and using fractional point font sizes. There are dozens of bitmap enthusiasts that were in the beta and they&#x27;re totally convinced because well... it&#x27;s pixel identical.I&#x27;ve noted before in issues I&#x27;m open to supporting bitmap fonts if someone contributes it, but not interested in adding it myself. The workaround above is very good.

Yeah I also searched for a quick select in ghostty while checking now. I am probably too deep in wezterm with my lua configuration anyway, but still.

Looks like a very nice project overall. I was initially interested in the &quot;native&quot; UI but after trying Ghostty I think I&#x27;ve realised that in a terminal app I actually want all the UI to be terminal&#x2F;TUI based within the terminal itself. This is a personal preference I&#x27;ve discovered rather than a criticism of Ghostty.It seems fast and really nice otherwise, so I&#x27;ll keep fiddling with it, but so far I still prefer, for example, the &quot;non-fancy&quot; tabs in WezTerm (where the tabs are just rendered as line of terminal cells at the top or bottom of the window rather than GUI elements), and the way that modals (&quot;Really quit WezTerm?&quot; etc.) are also rendered within the terminal.I&#x27;d also struggle to live without quick select mode[0].[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wezfurlong.org&#x2F;wezterm&#x2F;quickselect.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wezfurlong.org&#x2F;wezterm&#x2F;quickselect.html</a>

I initially scoffed when I read &quot;platform-native UI&quot; as I&#x27;ve found programs made in Electron typically proclaim something similar when they are anything but native, so when I saw it used GTK for Linux (SwiftUI for MacOS) my interests were piqued. Always fun to mess around with new terminal emulators.edit: alas, it doesn&#x27;t support bitmap fonts..

I uninstalled the app when I saw that Cmd+, opens an empty text file called config.I&#x27;m not going to learn more configuration languages or type 30 characters (or paste them from the browser) to toggle a binary setting.

This is great, thanks! It would be amazing if CMD + , would open this directly.

Well, thanks! Sometimes GUI makes for easier discovery than a wall of text, even when the docs are good.

Hey this is my tool, thanks for sharing! I&#x27;ve been very happy with how well received it has been so far!

Oh wow, this great! Is it your project? Either your post deserves more upvoted, or this link deserves it&#x27;s own post. Thanks for this one! &lt;3

I have found the following community site for generating Ghostty config quite helpful <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.zerebos.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.zerebos.com&#x2F;</a>

On X11, Gnome and KDE Plasma supported session&#x2F;state restore, but this was based on XSMP and couldn&#x27;t be simply reused for Wayland.There&#x27;s an ongoing standardization effort to provide equivalent functionality for Wayland:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;wayland&#x2F;wayland-protocols&#x2F;-&#x2F;merge_requests&#x2F;18" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;wayland&#x2F;wayland-protocols&#x2F;-&#x2F;m...</a>KDE Plasma provides a &quot;fake session restore&quot; for the time being:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;invent.kde.org&#x2F;plasma&#x2F;plasma-workspace&#x2F;-&#x2F;merge_requests&#x2F;3523" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;invent.kde.org&#x2F;plasma&#x2F;plasma-workspace&#x2F;-&#x2F;merge_reque...</a>

&gt; For example, on macOS, Ghostty supports Quick Look, force touch, the macOS secure input API, built-in window state recovery on restart, etc. These are all native APIs provided by macOS that don&#x27;t have equivalents in Linux desktop environments.I believe window state recovery has some approximate equivalent in GNOME and KDE, but maybe not exactly the same (and I don&#x27;t know how easy it is to integrate with).

Wayland WM &quot;River&quot; is great too.

What do you mean the &quot;vagrant moment&quot;?

This feels like the Vagrant moment [1] again. Cant believe 15 years have passed already.Together with Bun I believe that is two high profile open source software made with Zig.[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1175901">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1175901</a>

&gt; It doesn&#x27;t work in Windows so how is it cross platform?Linux and macOS are different platforms. Would calling it multi-platform make you happier?&gt; Also, I&#x27;ve been using terminals since DOS in 1990 and never once have I had to say, &quot;I wish this terminal had more performance&quot;,I remember the Windows terminal being unbearably slow in the past and wishing it had better performance.Maybe this just isn’t for you.

If you use something like tmux you will notice higher latencies. Clearly, if you&#x27;ve been using terminals since DOS in 90s and the issue does not bother you, then you are likely happy with whatever it is you are using. If you want to look into the issue and read on methodology used before I recommend Dan Luu&#x27;s from 2017 [1][1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;term-latency&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;term-latency&#x2F;</a>

| In the linked speed demo one command was 8 milliseconds faster than another. Ok?For day to day, ls&#x27;ing files that speed up won&#x27;t matter too much. It is when you are tailing logs or working with multi-gig files that it matters.

It doesn&#x27;t work in Windows so how is it cross platform?Also, I&#x27;ve been using terminals since DOS in 1990 and never once have I had to say, &quot;I wish this terminal had more performance&quot;, so I&#x27;m not sure that performance is really relevant here. If I write a command to build my project which takes 10 mins to build, does it matter whether the terminal command ran in 10 milliseconds vs 1 millisecond?In the linked speed demo one command was 8 milliseconds faster than another. Ok?Is a terminal written in Zig better than one made in C++ or Rust? Again, unsure why its relavant at all.

Ghostty, Mitchell, and the community around Ghostty, are all really amazing and pleasant to work with. I&#x27;ve had a lot of fun hanging out in the Discord, and sending in a couple of PR&#x27;s. Everyone is really kind and accommodating. It&#x27;s a pretty great example of how to run a community and open-source project, even this early on.

For those who don’t have the background:- created by Mitchell (founder of HashiCorp)- it’s developed in Zig (and Mitchell recently pledge $300k to Zig foundation)- uses native UI (which is super rare for cross platform app)- amazingly performant. e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@mitchellh&#x2F;111919642467789362" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@mitchellh&#x2F;111919642467789362</a>- has lots of amazing small details like below<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@mitchellh&#x2F;113330304084905500" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@mitchellh&#x2F;113330304084905500</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@mitchellh&#x2F;113443002518588524" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@mitchellh&#x2F;113443002518588524</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@mitchellh&#x2F;113166930440000852" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@mitchellh&#x2F;113166930440000852</a>This has been a passion project of his for the past 2-years and he’s completely MIT open sourced it. He’s spent a lot of time thinking and ensuring this project can persist in the future even without him.Many people have tremendous respect for Mitchell’s technical abilities, as well as hugely respect how he operates (genuinely nice person and thinks about things long-term and does the hard work for sustainability).Lots more to read at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;ghostty-is-coming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;ghostty-is-coming</a>

That&#x27;s usually a feature of the Desktop Environment. If you configure it there then it works everywhere.

Does it support Ctrl+Scroll to zoom? Somehow I got used to this years ago and unfortunately not a lot of software supports it. Have been using Wezterm until now, which does.

It&#x27;s great that you (and many others) find it useful, but I genuinely have no idea what this is about. I switch my iTerm from my 13&quot; MBP, 32&quot; monitor, and iPad all the time, and I don&#x27;t need any config to make it work. Maybe I just don&#x27;t care enough about this stuff but I don&#x27;t see what I would even configure this way.Anyway, this is the reason I love the new wave of terminals, they bring new stuff on the table and anyone can find one they love. I just installed Ghostty and it works as I expect out of the box, with even less config (0) than I have on iTerm. And it&#x27;s fast. Now I just hope they&#x27;ll add a config UI some day (one of the reasons I prefer static config files: you can&#x27;t really get a UI with a programming language) and I&#x27;ll be in terminal heaven

Hmmm this actually has me thinking of looking at WezTerm now hah

I have a similar setup could you link your config? Id like to adapt it.

I&#x27;ve used wezterm for years and have never done anything fancy with the config, but this sounds awesome. I&#x27;d really appreciate it if you could link your config or a similar resource.

This is what I love about wezterm. I have a whole system that detects lightness and changes themes automatically, and also sends commands down to any open nvim instances to switch colourschemes there.
The only downside is that there is no going back for me haha.Lua is also simple enough that if you want to have a static config, you can have a single table that is very json-like.

Config being a programming language has insane advantages. Not only can I error check my config in vim or Visual Code, I can do insane things with logic that just don&#x27;t work in other config file approaches. My laptop is connected to a 32&quot; 4k monitor at work, standalone while traveling, and to a 27&quot; 2k at home. WezTerm &quot;knows&quot; that, and sets things such as font size and line height automagically.Even more, I can have split logic based on window size, window titles that show me who also checked out a file while I am inside an editor, even per-window color and font schemes.All apps should use something like Lua for their config.

I solve that by using zellij locally (I use tmux remotely). Bonus points: I can close or upgrade Alacritty without losing session.

&gt; WezTerm (insane config format, config has no business using a full fledged programming language)Insanely good ;)Being able to quickly script minor functionality into my terminal emulator is my favorite thing about WezTerm

I’ve been very disappointed with Alacritty (no support for split term in favor of tmux) and WezTerm (insane config format, config has no business using a full fledged programming language) feature wise, so I have high hopes regarding Ghostty, can’t wait to try it!

I have honestly been so excited to try this after listening to several videos of mitchell talking about his work. What a christmas present!A terminal is so dear to us software engineers, and this seems like such a love declaration to the terminal.Time to spend hours tuning my config!

This is by far the best terminal emulator I&#x27;ve ever used.

Thanks so much for this. I really enjoy using it and I also refer to the source code quite a bit as I&#x27;m trying to get more familiar with Zig :)

Wezterm does have tabs, and their related keyboard shortcuts are configurable.See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wezfurlong.org&#x2F;wezterm&#x2F;config&#x2F;lua&#x2F;keyassignment&#x2F;SpawnTab.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wezfurlong.org&#x2F;wezterm&#x2F;config&#x2F;lua&#x2F;keyassignment&#x2F;Spaw...</a> for a starting point in the config.

Quick correction: I currently use Wezterm on Linux and it has tabs. Alacritty does not for developer philosophical reasons.Looking forward to checking out Ghostty.

We&#x27;ve got native tabs and splits on both macOS and Linux. :)WezTerm has tabs but they&#x27;re not native UI elements.

Wezterm has tabs right out of the box and they are fully customizable, though I prefer tmux since I prefer to not have my data extinguished if I accidentally close the terminal :DWezTerm shines in ease and breadth of configurability due to using lua, so it&#x27;s simple to have the theme change between light&#x2F;dark depending on host OS theme.

Yeah. I could get by with the default Linux terminal and tmux really. Tmux is just the best. Second to vim it’s the single most useful thing I’ve ever used.

I also use tmux, but I love the native tabs of Konsole in KDE. I have Shift-Arrow configured to move between them, it is far more comfortable than the dual shortcuts needed by tmux, Ctrl-B to call tmux&#x27;s attention then l (if I remember correctly) to get to the last tab.Konsole also has easy resizing of text and supports images in the console, you might like it.

Looks really awesome. I&#x27;m going to sound like I don&#x27;t belong in the hipster terminal club, but the reason I shied away from some of the other terminals is the lack of tabs, which looks like yours has when I did a quick Google question&#x2F;search. (if wezterm and the like have them, I must have missed it or it wasn&#x27;t obviously apparent in the settings how to achieve them).I know everyone will say but tmux and&#x2F;or native multiplexing bla, but I&#x27;m kind of old school and only do screen remotely if needed, and I just like a lot of terminal tabs in my workflow with a quick mod left&#x2F;right arrow to navigate between (and if native multiplexing in Ghostty is simple and easy I&#x27;d probably do some of that too). 
 Perhaps this is why I&#x27;ve never left iterm2.

Search was the first thing I noticed it was lacking. I hope it can be added at some point, sometimes you can&#x27;t just run a command again to grep it.

I&#x27;ve been a beta tester from very early on. I came for the performance but stayed for the stability. I&#x27;ve only had a rare few crashes and all but one was a duplicate in the bug tracker.I thought I needed search but as Mitchell put it, not a 1.0 feature. Ripgrep was always the answer.Very happy to share the ghostty experience with the world!

Thank you for making this! I&#x27;ve been waiting to use it for quite some time. Really happy to take it for a spin.

Thank you for building this! I’ve loved using this over the last two months or so and really appreciate the work you’ve put into it.I’ve been a very happy iTerm2 user and support the dev on GitHub Sponsors (and I’ll continue to do that), but I love your commitment to making a fast, native app (and cross platform, no less) and really appreciate this very obvious labor of love that has also been really interesting to watch from afar as the development has progressed!

I LOVE Cool Retro Term! I mean, every once in a while. But if I’m sharing it in Zoom, I’m damn sure re-opening my tmux session in CRT.

you can use glsl shaders with Ghostty including this CRT one to mimic what cool retro does<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;m-ahdal&#x2F;ghostty-shaders&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;crt.glsl">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;m-ahdal&#x2F;ghostty-shaders&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;crt.gls...</a>

I use that one as my daily driver. Works great.

No mention of Cool Retro Term!?!? Typical elitist behavior... &#x2F;sI&#x27;m just having a bit of fun, but it is a fun terminal every once in a while. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Swordfish90&#x2F;cool-retro-term">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Swordfish90&#x2F;cool-retro-term</a>

I think you&#x27;ve done an excellent job running the community for Ghostty and it is a prime example of how to do it right. From the Discord to Github repos you&#x27;ve been a class act all the way through and have pushed folks to be good, civil internet denizens. Much respect.If anyone cares to search through Github, they will see loads and loads of Issues and PRs created by Mitchell in many of the related Open Source projects that Ghostty uses&#x2F;references. From zig to kitty to supporting libraries, Mitchell has been trying to get the terminal community working together and have some sort of standards. A lot of them are like &quot;X does this, Y does that, why are you doing it this way? Can we all do it this way?&quot; and then having Ghostty follow the most reasonable solution (or supporting several!).

Right, input latency is what matters for me. I&#x27;m not seeing whether they&#x27;ve measured that in the docs&#x2F;on Github.

&gt; kills performanceAnd battery.I gave up on alacritty because it was always using the dedicated graphics card of my MacBook and there was no reasonably way to use the integrated graphics card because it was “low performance”.

&gt; Missing damage tracking, always painting everything (even when the window is a full 4k monitor),Out of curiosity, what GPU accelerated terminal does this.

Just make sure not to get caught in the pitfall that is maximum render speed, which can lead to missing out on efficiency during slow and partial rendering.Missing damage tracking, always painting everything (even when the window is a full 4k monitor), etc. kills performance and input latency when dealing with realistic redraw workloads like text editing, blinking cursors and progress bars. Much too often to terminals worry only about the performance of `cat &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom`...

For those interested, the link below from Mitchell&#x27;s blog explains the different goals he&#x27;s trying to reach, compared to other terminal emulators.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;ghostty-is-coming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;ghostty-is-coming</a>

Shoutout to you sir for
Shouting out the other terminals. It’d be easy for someone of your fame and talent and history to ride the hype to the GOAT of all terminals. But you stayed humble. Props.

I’m trying to figure out the same thing, sounds like just tabs?

Ghostty&#x27;s community is much nicer compared to Alacritty :)

Alacritty on macOS and Linux user here (Windows Terminal on Windows due to easily different shells available, formerly used iTerm2 on macOS). I make up for lack of tabs with zellij locally (tmux remotely). Also allows me to relog or close&#x2F;update Alacritty. I will give Ghostty a whirl but why no shout out to Alacritty? Which features am I missing out on?

Looks cool man.Does it have a way to do tabs, and split terminal vertical and horizontal? Those are the only features keeping me on Terminator.I&#x27;ve tried Tmux, but it isn&#x27;t the same, so please commenters, avoid from the suggestion.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;ghostty-is-coming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;ghostty-is-coming</a>

I&#x27;m a fan of your work! I&#x27;m curious about how you decided to work on building a terminal for your next project among your other ideas. If you have time later, could you share your main motivation with us or link to an existing post if you already mentioned it elsewhere?

Congrats Mitchell! It has been really cool to see Ghostty progress as a project, and I&#x27;ve enjoyed having it as my daily driver these past few years :)

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;about</a>

&gt; Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it&#x27;s right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices.I was looking on the website to try and understand this more but couldn’t find any information. Perhaps I missed it?

Just built this from source on Fedora and I have to say the experience even for building-from-source is flawless. Immediately replaced Kitty for me; it feels smoother and faster. Amazing work.

From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;features" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;features</a>:&gt; macOS&gt; Quick Terminal: Lightweight terminal that animates down below the menu bar for instant access without interrupting work.

Thank you for making this. Does it support quake mode? It&#x27;s hard to tell looking at the docs.

Stock Terminal.app doesn’t do 256 or 24-bit colour, that’s really the big thing that drew me to ghostty.

Lower inout latency can make something feel faster. I haven&#x27;t measured it but it&#x27;s possible that&#x27;s why with ghostty

Just downloaded it because of the animation on the site. How did you make that? it&#x27;s cute.The terminal is good. I don&#x27;t have any issues with the stock mac os terminal app but I&#x27;ll give yours a go for a bit. I can&#x27;t tell exactly how, but it does feel faster - I&#x27;m not sure exactly how it is but it looks like it renders text faster.

Thank you for all the hard work you’ve done and for sharing your passion project with us.

I haven&#x27;t heard of Ghostty before today. I&#x27;m reading the docs; but what are the main selling points?Personally, I&#x27;ve used Terminal.app (for a bit), iTerm (for a long while), Konsole (in the past, on Linux) and more recently I standardized on Alacritty (macOS) and Kitty (Linux). GPU acceleration puts it in the same general bin as my current toolchain, but your comment alludes to it pulling in some concepts from iTerm, possibly -- is that the case?

You&#x27;ve saved me an immeasurable amount of time and sanity over the last few years with the tools you&#x27;ve been building, and simply put: thank you.I&#x27;m extremely excited to give Ghostty a whirl.

Use the browser&#x27;s search on the page?

Looks great. Switching from wezterm and kitty before that, and the native feel on macOS is indeed better than those emulated tabs. Also it is really quite zero config where to me it seems only one line of color theme is needed, together with setting TERM for ssh. (Default font happens to be mine.) Bundling so much color theme felt a bit waste of space, but it is nice that I don’t need to define them myself which also makes switching theme tedious. I also love to see it lands at 1.0 where features, documentation, and promotional materials seem polished already.Chances are, it will become my default terminal in 2025!The only nitpicking is the doc does not seem to have a search function. It would be great if I can search color or ssh and find the relevant page address that immediately, without navigating the tree or relying on external search engines.

looks like it does! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;reference#font-feature" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;reference#font-feature</a>

not only does it support them, but the default font provides them. although it splits the ligature in half if your cursor is in the middle of it which feels a little weird to me

super cool!kitty has been my default for a few years now— highly superficial, but my designer side landed on kitty as it was one of the few that supports ligatures by default, specifically for the fira code font for my bias.does ghostty support ligatures?

Discussed near the last part of an earlier post.“… exploring not-for-profit structures to help ensure the long-term sustainability of Ghostty.”<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;ghostty-is-coming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;ghostty-is-coming</a>

How do you plan on sustaining the project? Do you have enough committers so you’ll not burn out? Will you need support? Is there a way to donate? I guess what I’m getting at is what is the long term sustainability work around this?

what was the motivation to start this project? it got so many points here, hence I assume there must be something really useful about it - but I so far fail to see it.

It&#x27;s surprisingly convenient and works as I expect it to work all the time. Fantastic job!

Enjoyed hearing about this on The Changelog recently!

I&#x27;m not sure why they couldn&#x27;t put that on the front page. Or at least on the front page of the documentation.As it stands now, the front page is pretty useless if you never heard of ghostty. It&#x27;s a ghost in a terminal? And there&#x27;s tty in the name.... so is it a program to show ghosts in your terminal?

I love this page in your docs:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;about</a>Clear, friendly, modest, respectful and with the right balance of detail vs overview.Congratulations on your launch.

I&#x27;ve been looking forward to it for a while, I&#x27;m really happy about this. Thanks for your work on this project.

This. To add some words why this is important:Given the remote-first container-based world we&#x27;re heading towards, decoupling UI (terminal emulator) from its &quot;backend&quot; (tmux, code-server) is a great design decision, which I think will ultimately define what the &quot;next generation&quot; of terminal emulators is. Imagine being able to open tabs directly on remote host, reconnect without losing state, etc, all while using native UI (so Cmd+T to open new tab, Cmd+F to search, etc). Productivity game changer, which currently only the iTerm2 users can fully enjoy.Ptyxis (putting its backend in running containers), WezTerm (native handling of ssh sessions) and VSCode&#x27;s terminal (starting a proprietary code-server binary and connecting to its TCP port) have reached some of this functionality, but in their design they need some out-of-band mechanisms to handle the connections, ultimately limiting the scenarios they can handle.Meanwhile tmux -CC [0] and ht [1] are sending both their control channel and data channel over the opened terminal itself (in-band), making them flexible enough to support any configuration. Something complex like `ssh jumpbox -- ssh prod -- podman exec -it prod &#x2F;bin&#x2F;bash -- tmux -CC` should just work, as if everything was running on your local machine.[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Control-Mode">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Control-Mode</a>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andyk&#x2F;ht">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andyk&#x2F;ht</a>

Congrats on your 1.0 release! Building a term from scratch is no small task. And it looks like after 2 years you already have something I&#x27;m seriously considering switching to. That&#x27;s seriously impressive. And though I&#x27;m mostly a Linux supremacist, I genuinely appreciate and respect your dedication to providing native applications on all major platforms. I see too many projects do one of two things: only support one platform at first, with some vague promise of doing others in the future left unfulfilled for years. Or going the easy route of using electron or some other cross-platform toolkit, getting cross-platform support at the cost of a significantly worse experience. There is no substitute for doing the extra work, at the end of the day, and you&#x27;re already well on your way there at such an early point. Again, I&#x27;m impressed!Now, the one thing I&#x27;ve coveted for years is a linux term with tmux control mode support, ever since I used iterm2 during my short tenure as a Mac user. I can see from your github issues that this is in the works(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1935">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1935</a>), which is great. It looks like a lot of the necessary UI elements are already in place, as well as partial support for the control mode protocol. Do you have any idea how far off this is from being completed? I don&#x27;t wanna make demands or anything, I know this is a passion project with lots of things still to work on. As far as I know(and I look around quite often) control mode support is still something no existing term for linux supports. Being the first could drive a lot of adoption! I&#x27;d also like to offer my help in pushing it over the goal line. I haven&#x27;t touched Zig, but I&#x27;m a polyglot with plenty C experience and Im highly motivated to bring this feature to my Linux systems. Some guidance on things I might do to help would be welcome. The final 3 points of the checklist don&#x27;t have much detail provided.Again, no pressure, thanks for all your amazing work, and good luck with continued development!

Terminals are always welcome :) I hope you can add Win supoort so I can try it at work.Congrats for the release and happy new year.

thank you and the community for the work. i hope to see blocks (not sure if this is a shell thing or a terminal thing) the same way warp does it :)

Calling it libTerminal might be confusing. There are other terminal emulation libraries—for example libvterm[1], notably used to power the embedded terminal in Neovim.[2][1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leonerd.org.uk&#x2F;code&#x2F;libvterm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leonerd.org.uk&#x2F;code&#x2F;libvterm&#x2F;</a>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neovim.io&#x2F;doc&#x2F;user&#x2F;terminal.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neovim.io&#x2F;doc&#x2F;user&#x2F;terminal.html</a>

Congratulations.On the cross-platform library, I wonder why &quot;libGhostty&quot; and not libTerminal. Which seems like a more appropriate in term of library?

How you&#x27;ve managed to communicate effectively with so many people who were using the beta version to craft the final release is beyond me!
I downloaded it last night, wrote one line of theme configuration (I picked the batman theme). and For me it just works fine and faster than any other terminal emulator I&#x27;ve ever worked with.
Also great with &#x27;less&#x27; and &#x27;tmux&#x27;.
I just switched to &#x27;Ghostty&#x27;! so thank you.

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

&lt;3 This has been a work of passion for the past two years of my life (off and on). I hope anyone who uses this can feel the love and care I put into this, and subsequently the amazing private beta community (all ~5,000 strong!) that helped improve and polish this into a better release than I ever could alone.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&#x27;m not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it&#x27;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 hate for being relatively slow but nothing comes close to touching it in terms of feature count. Rio is a super cool newer terminal, too. The world of terminals is great.I’ve posted a personal reflection here, which has a bit more history on why I started this, what’s next, and some of the takeaways from the past two years. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;ghostty-1-0-reflection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;ghostty-1-0-reflection</a>

Related. Others?Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41914025">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41914025</a> - Oct 2024 (32 comments)Ghostty Devlog 004 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37709113">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37709113</a> - Sept 2023 (2 comments)Talk: Ghostty and Some Useful Zig Patterns - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37491031">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37491031</a> - Sept 2023 (2 comments)Mitchell Hashimoto&#x27;s Ghostty Devlog - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36736686">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36736686</a> - July 2023 (1 comment)

I wonder how the colour rendering is. Usually when I configure some editor in a terminal to use specific #rrggbb 24bit colours I like, the end result does not render the same as in non-terminal software (confirmed in the past with an eye-dropper tool).

Thanks!This is why I love HN. I had already installed from source, but this makes updating easier after all.

Note the AUR package was removed because it&#x27;s since been packaged in the official Arch repos.There is a ghostty-git AUR repo for tracking the main branch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aur.archlinux.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;ghostty-git" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aur.archlinux.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;ghostty-git</a>

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aur.archlinux.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;ghostty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aur.archlinux.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;ghostty</a>

How... did that get in there so fast? I just updated a couple of hours ago and it wasn&#x27;t there. Now it is.

AUR not even needed <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archlinux.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;extra&#x2F;x86_64&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archlinux.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;extra&#x2F;x86_64&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;</a>

I think &quot;vanilla&quot; terminal users such as myself (e.g. I don&#x27;t do a bunch of screen&#x2F;tmuxing, I don&#x27;t code in terminals etc) probably are not the target audience.I&#x27;ve had zero issues with standard macos terminal ( once I realized how to speed up key repeat in system settings that is), so I assume I don&#x27;t need this.

Same request. As someone who uses the standard Teriminal application on my MBP I&#x27;m wondering what benefits I might find from Ghostty

simplicity, feels zen-mode vs a lot of over-the-top-terminals these daysalso (from the docs):&gt; Ghostty supports the Kitty graphics protocol, light&#x2F;dark mode notifications, hyperlinks, and more. This lets terminal applications like Neovim, Zellij, and others do more than they could in other terminal emulators.Application features are higher-level features that are useful for interacting with the terminal emulator itself. For example, Ghostty supports native tabs, splits, a drop-down terminal on macOS, theme switching on system dark&#x2F;light mode, etc.

Could someone give me an idea why I would want to use this instead of any other terminal?

Telling to creator of Redis that they might want to reevaluate their respective program logic (Redis) is pretty funny, only on HN :)

Sure, I redirect when there is to redirect, but sometimes during debugging you want to spam yourself to see what is happening during some stress testing when some code path is full of printfs. Also sometimes I&#x27;m just on the redis-cli and to test the system at scale I directly ask (like yesterday) for half million of similar vectors. It is very convenient I can type this on the CLI and see the result immediately, instead of flooding myself for seconds or minutes.

why don&#x27;t you just pipe it into a file and then less it? if your redis stuff prints so much stuff you might want to reevaluate the respective program logic.

See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;189#issuecomment-2558909414">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;189#issuecomme...</a>

Really need scrollback search though. Was a bit surprised it was launched without that.

After a quick test this looks incredibly good and fast. I&#x27;ll use it as a terminal for the next weeks to see how it goes, but I have good feelings. Thank you so much for writing it.EDIT: WOOOW, for me this is going to be a game changer. I was just working at Redis stuff outputting a ton of debugging info and results, and normally the terminal was the bottleneck, and here instead it printed half million of results in the blink of an eye. And then I could go back in the history without any performance degradation. I love this: for development of systems it makes a big difference.

Windows is a third class citizen when it comes to the development world.

The little it says about what this even is seems to be wrong. This is not cross-platform at all

I used Arch. It was already in the AUR, but I believe it did build from source

oh, it&#x27;s actually a problem with ultra-wide screens and there is no simple resolution for this and I gave up
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;wslg&#x2F;issues&#x2F;590">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;wslg&#x2F;issues&#x2F;590</a>

Thanks!
I did it, but I&#x27;m having problems with window resizing and mouse selection. 
When I try to resize the window, the actual window is smaller than it appears.
Did you encounter the same issue?
Related issues:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;wslg&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1008">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;wslg&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1008</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;wslg&#x2F;issues&#x2F;633">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;wslg&#x2F;issues&#x2F;633</a>

In case anyone is wondering, this terminal appears to work just great on windows by using WSLg.I installed on linux inside WSL, then launched it, and it looks&#x2F;works great. Clipboard also works.

Was just looking for how to configure this globally. You can create a keybind for every key[0][1] but that&#x27;s a bit silly faff nonsense in current year 2024.[0] e.g. `keybind = alt+f=esc:f`[1] Which affects both option keys, sadly.

Look for `macos-option-as-alt`. The Ghostty docs use the term &quot;Alt&quot; here to mean using the key as a terminal input modifier rather than for macOS text input. This setting allows you to specify only one option key to use this behavior for.

I have this as a system-wide mapping with Karabiner. Complex modifications, &quot;Post esc if left_alt is pressed alone&quot;.There&#x27;s never a time when I wouldn&#x27;t want this to work, may as well enable it everywhere.Edit: It looks like I misunderstood what that setting in iTerm does. But hey if you do want left option to send Esc by itself, that&#x27;s how to get it.

Looks great. Eagerly waiting to be able to &quot;Use Left Option as Esc+&quot; like iTerm has. Without it, it is nearly impossible to use Emacs.

Overall nice, but I&#x27;m bummed to be running into some bugs regarding a few key binding assignments. Though, I could just be missing something due to the somewhat spartan docs.Given all the time and hype, I&#x27;d have hoped that wrinkles like this would&#x27;ve been ironed out by launch time.Back to Wezterm for now, but I&#x27;ll certainly be checking back in at some point.

there&#x27;s a flake in the official repo that works fine for me (nixos unstable)

Upon installing this, I went straight for this part of the documentation:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;reference#macos-non-native-fullscreen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;config&#x2F;reference#macos-non-native-f...</a>Unfortunately the &quot;tabs not working in non-native fullscreen&quot; thing is a dealbreaker for me, so I will be switching back to iTerm 2.But Ghostty as a whole looks promising. I like zig, zig-objc, MIT license, libghostty, config via text file. I will check back every month or so because I really want to use this. But my hate for macOS native fullscreen outweighs everything else.Edit: Ok here we go, this is why it&#x27;s not implemented: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;392#issuecomment-1802547697">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org&#x2F;ghostty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;392#issuecomme...</a>There&#x27;s more than one workaround which is superior in my opinion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;iWoqrM0.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;iWoqrM0.png</a>IIRC you can even use AppKit to remove the close&#x2F;minimize&#x2F;fullscreen buttons, so it would just be a blank bar.You could go a step further and use private APIs &#x2F; objc runtime voodoo to set the height of the titlebar to 0. That might outside your design philosophy though.Also, FYI, clicking the green fullscreen button still uses macOS native fullscreen, so you definitely want to disable that button (which is a public AppKit API) when you have that option enabled

- open source- faster- no AI bloat- no telemetry- no obnoxious warning banner if you run without admin access- no VCs that will enshittify the app in a few years- doesn&#x27;t require an internet connection and an account to access motherfucking bash on your local machine

Nice work! How does this compare to Warp?

This sounds like an issue with your environment. For example, on my Fedora 41 setup Ghostty starts up pretty much instantly regardless of the value of this option.

Startup time was very bad until I disabled adwaita with<pre><code> gtk-adwaita = false</code></pre>

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;help&#x2F;terminfo#ssh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;help&#x2F;terminfo#ssh</a>

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;help&#x2F;terminfo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;help&#x2F;terminfo</a>

This is very nice! How do I work around remote SSH shells complaining like `Error opening terminal: xterm-ghostty`?

Warp has been meeting all my needs other than tab switching behavior. It&#x27;s not open source but the UX is great.Switched from WezTerm which was working cross platform but not quite as good.Both are low latency and written in Rust.

Thank you! Interesting, because I haven&#x27;t perceived &quot;terminal performance&quot; as a problem before. I will try it out

Where should I look first if I only get around 160 fps, while WezTerm gets 400+ fps?

The parent is probably referring to this benchmark: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;const-void&#x2F;DOOM-fire-zig&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;const-void&#x2F;DOOM-fire-zig&#x2F;</a>

It’s fast. In the same league as Alacritty and Wezterm, which is to say on the doom fire benchmark those terminals can do 500fps plus, where iTerm2 does 90fps on my M4 MacBook Pro. In practical terms if you use tmux or vim in the terminal, it makes a big difference for typing latency and scrolling.

I just use rcmd for that. But that iterm feature is nice.

I tried it but I just can&#x27;t jump since it doesn&#x27;t have support the global hotkey to autofocus iterm that I&#x27;m so used to.I tried using their toggle_visibility keybind but it&#x27;s a bit wonky since it doesn&#x27;t return focus back to another window when you toggle away.

&gt; Switching windows in tmux is much faster than clicking on tabs.Sure, if you&#x27;re clicking tabs... A fairer comparison would be between the keyboard shortcut to switch windows in tmux and the native keyboard shortcut to switch tabs.

I am not a very adept terminal user. I just hook in to tmux. So all emulators are basically the same for me. Switching windows in tmux is much faster than clicking on tabs. ghostty at least looks much nicer. It has a lot of built in fonts and themes. Command line editing is similar. Man pages for some reason are very slow to open in iterm2, but that isn&#x27;t the case here. The only deal breaker for me is that it takes up a lot of cpu (in macbook air). Unless there is a simple, non-consequential config to change that will fix this, I will stay with iterm for now.

To people who tried using it, what are the reasons to use it over iTerm2?

In the same sense that a million monkeys on typewriters could theoretically produce Shakespeare.

Could GPT5 or Claude written this from scratch?

Cursor trail?I&#x27;ve been using Kitty since just about the beginning and didn&#x27;t know it did that!Edit. Oh I see it&#x27;s a really recent addition. I&#x27;ll definitely be taking that for a spin.

Been trying it out for a few hours and love it! One feature that I do miss from Kitty is the cursor trail when your cursor moves in a buffer. Excited to see what Ghostty does in the future and thank you for a great new terminal!

Just want to share what I just realised, but the author is no one else than the mitchell hashimoto from hashicorp, so not exactly a newbie ! Would it have killed you to let us poor 99% have a bit of fun releasing useful projects too? (And also reach a bit of your determination, skill and talent)? (no, really, kudos, well done and thanks)

nixGL is also likely required on non-NixOS Linux distros.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nix-community&#x2F;nixGL">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nix-community&#x2F;nixGL</a>

You can install it as a Flake using plain Nix. See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;install&#x2F;binary#nix-flake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostty.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;install&#x2F;binary#nix-flake</a>

any tips on how to install it if you have nix (without nixos)?