Ghostty is a Fast and Feature-Rich Terminal

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. Ghostty has support for tabs, splits and ligatures.

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[maybeashleyidk]

Just FYI, Ctrl+D isn't a specific Ghostty keybind, it's a shell thing (I think it comes from GNU readline, dunno exactly though) which sends EOF, which means that the shell exits and with it whatever tty the shell was running in.

[hamm]

It feels slower than alacritty, or even wezterm. It seems like its entire appeal is solely that it is pushed by influencers lol

[GrumpyCrash]

It has nothing to offer what wezterm and kitty already have. It's the most over-hyped application since years.

[zakkypatronu]

the toolbar can be removed with window-decoration = false

[XGP]

Interesting. I just switched to ghostty myself and I've been liking it a lot.

[asif]

It feels slower and less snappier than Kitty. There wasn't any groundbreaking feature that would make me wanna switch. Really wasn't worth the hype.

[TakeThisLove]

Just an average terminal. Probably makes a bit more sense for Mac users, others can stick to what they have.

[iaina]

I tried it on Nobara 41 KDE.
It ran with Gnome Window Decorations (not plasma) and felt slow... really slow compared to Konsole, yakuake etc (running on a mini pc without a dedicated GPU)
typing just felt sluggish to me on my machine so it didn't stay installed very long.
Interesting idea, like the direction they're going in with it, but as of Jan 2025, it's just not for me.

[YERAFirearms]

Konsole has filename links to open the files.
Ctrl + mouse wheel scroll would increase decrease font sizes

[tenj]

once i configure all the fluff away, I end up with something like kitty.

[knick]

Eh, I uninstalled it right after opening it. Takes like 4 times the time to launch compared to foot.

[scottspitlerII]

What’s the problem with using tmux or tmate? My workflow is typically cd into my project directory, start tmux, rename my session, use window 0 for code compilation, 1 for running my app, 2 for my main / entry function and then 3 through N are my actual code. I end up with ~100 copies of vim running once I have a few projects open, I like to detach and reattach based on the project I need right then and there like a code notebook, but it has to run in the terminal so I can access it over SSH and on anything. Any feedback? Looking to learn :)

[StrikerEureka]

i entered a command and it returned nothing. I guess I ghostty ghosted me.

[LilaHikes]

Why do I need a GPU accelerated terminal? Almost sounds like a contradiction in terms.

[Gesas]

What's your ZSH / bash script that upon launching new terminal, the RANDOM ascii art is presented?

[BeyondPC]

Honestly we are just waiting for the Ti version of TTY.

[steeltormentors]

as a Kitty user i tried Ghostty expecting things to not working properly..i'm very surprised to find out everything that's working in Kitty, also works flawlessly in Ghostty (tmux, yazi, built-in image viewer, musikcube, yewtube, csv viewer, pdf viewer, etc). I've been using it since its 1.0 launch and for my use case I don't feel it's missing anything from Kitty.

Also I read some comments on slow launch...I don't experience such thing, Ghostty is at least as fast as Kitty.

[oglothenerd]

Ghostty is also the only terminal emulator that was as fast as Alacritty with my test of playing videos in the terminal.

[ficcdaf]

Personally I switched over from Kitty for one simple reason: in Ghostty, extra modified keys like <C-Enter> work in Tmux. As far as I know, Ghostty is the only terminal that supports that, Kitty keyboard protocol, and Kitty graphics, all at once, without needing to change any settings.

[Software-nsli]

Leader based Key chords would be nice, obviously if you have a (q|z)mk board the osm keys will accomplish that to a point