Ghostty is now v1.0 (and Open Source to all) · general

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Thanks for the heads up on both of these! Gonna have to try Ghostty when I'm back at work...

Menno (Dec 28 2024 at 09:41):

And it's pretty great!

Andrew O'Brien (Jan 06 2025 at 19:21):

Looking forward to that libghostty that Mitchell was talking about and I'm wondering if that could lead to it being able to embedded into VS Code. I just changed my workflow to be based around VS Code's Remote development which finally gave me a reason to use the in-editor terminal.

James Thurley (Jan 07 2025 at 07:11):

I’ve installed Ghostty but find the VSCode terminal so convenient that I still rarely use Ghostty (or iTerm2 before it) :thinking:

Ron Waldon-Howe (Jan 07 2025 at 07:36):

I've actually switched back to alacritty and zellij, haha
It's good that there's a terminal foundation library for Zig projects, but alacritty and wezterm already offer that in the Rust ecosystem, so it'll be interesting to see whether anyone creates Rust bindings to libghostty

Brett Cannon (Jan 07 2025 at 18:42):

The thing that has held me up is https://ghostty.org/docs/install/binary#fedora only has community builds, but after inspecting the .spec file for the RPM it doesn't look nefarious, so I think I'm safe to install it.

Matthew Sanabria (Jan 08 2025 at 01:34):

Brett Cannon said:

The thing that has held me up is https://ghostty.org/docs/install/binary#fedora only has community builds, but after inspecting the .spec file for the RPM it doesn't look nefarious, so I think I'm safe to install it.

I'm running Fedora and I just build from source. Usually from some release tag. I'm trying to build more of my tools from source rather than install from a package.

Owen Valentine (Jan 08 2025 at 10:20):

I'm really enjoying Ghostty, but I'm a hard and fast quick/quake-mode user, so that not being doable outside of macOS (yet) makes it a non-starter outside of work so far. But will watch and wait :P

AJ Kerrigan (Jan 08 2025 at 15:45):

This thread is useful :thumbs_up: . I use the "quake mode" thing all the time but configure it for multiple apps so don't want or need ghostty's own way of doing it. But on the other hand, I didn't realize how dependent I had become on kitty's hints feature. It feels like such a petty dealbreaker :laughing: .

(wezterm folks - I _think_ this is doable there as a quick select custom action or something?)

onjen (Jan 08 2025 at 16:35):

Yes I also miss the URL selection via keyboard from the "foot" terminal.

Brett Cannon (Jan 08 2025 at 20:54):

Matthew Sanabria said:

I'm running Fedora and I just build from source. Usually from some release tag. I'm trying to build more of my tools from source rather than install from a package.

If the docs didn't basically say, "you don't want to build from source if you can help it" and I wasn't so lazy since I have no complaints with the GNOME terminal, I probably would have done the same.

Owen Valentine said:

I'm really enjoying Ghostty, but I'm a hard and fast quick/quake-mode user, so that not being doable outside of macOS (yet) makes it a non-starter outside of work so far. But will watch and wait :P

Is there a terminal on Linux that offers that feature?

Matthew Sanabria (Jan 09 2025 at 06:25):

GNOME Terminal was fine for me too, until I wanted to hop on macOS and it wasn't there. That's one reason I switch to Ghostty. Cross platform.

Owen Valentine (Jan 09 2025 at 09:28):

Brett Cannon said:

Is there a terminal on Linux that offers that feature?

Yeah, I currently swear by Tilix. It's still perfectly functional, but has effectively been unmaintained for quite a while. On macOS I've been using Tabby, with the cross-platform ideal being my focus, but ufhsgsyshgs Electron for terminal is a bad time, so haven't adopted for personal use. Ghostty gives me something better on macOS for now at least, though Tilix and Tabby's support for quake-specific styling (transparency etc) is also handy. Using a bunch less RAM is very compelling though :D

Owen Valentine (Jan 09 2025 at 14:06):

Ah, and quick terminal doesn't do tabs or any other customizability, and takes a while to spawn/resume. It'll serve for now but I'm gonna need to figure out how to contribute :P

Nick Reilingh (Jan 09 2025 at 14:08):

I've been enjoying Ghostty for a while, but just remembered about Gary Bernhardt's talk about "an terminal" (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world) -- I would love to see an interview with him about whether his terminal dreams from 12 years ago have been achieved!

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