5 Reasons I Ditched My Old Terminal for Ghostty

Ghost aren't Sexy!

whats wrong with alacritty? its gpu accelerated and you can customize it

oh well fuck alacritty devs, wanna know why mine works fine? i asked chatgpt how to set up the toml, i can host my toml on github if you want just hmu

Looks very promising, thanks for the tip! I'll keep an eye on the public release and give it a try.

As a side note, I've noticed that developers who like the Go programming language and use it well also tend to develop great OSS. 🤔

Does it support tmux -CC? This is the only reason why I don’t leave iterm

I recently switched terminals as well. For me, it was from Konsole to WezTerm. I had used Konsole for something like 20 years. I use a Gnome based desktop these days, and would still pull in a large number of KDE dependencies, just to have Konsole. But Konsole has started picking up some quirks over the last couple of years, related to font rendering and dark theme (maybe due to KDE Plasma rewrites) so it was time to move on. I did a bit of research. Alacritty's lack of tabs made it a non-option for me. Kitty is written in Python, with some C mixed in, which is definitely weird for a terminal emulator. WezTerm was written in Rust, and uses Lua for the configuration, which are both positives for me.

wezterm ftw

I was planning to take a look at it when it is released Dec/2024 and I use Linux. Ya, the Alacritty config file format switch from yaml to toml messed me up but had to tinker to get it to work properly. Thank you for a key points overview,this will help us all decide whether to switch to it.

"sane CLI" ...

ghostty +list-fonts

None of the CLIs tools I use, there is a + in front of a command. These tools here but not limited to:
gh, rg, fd, bat, lazigit, fzf , jq, zoxide and many others...

Maybe it will tempt me away from st...

Hey John, what is your camera set up?

How is this terminal better than Warp? I've been using Warp for more than a year and it is brutal how far better it is from any other terminal. I just saw your review and I don't think it is better then Warp.

So it's just a kitty clone written in zig?(Jk jk)
I say this because of the list-fonts command

>nice configuration
>config through a file
bruh

Does it allow key modifiers like item2 does ??? I swap ctrl key with cmd key on the left..

I'm not seeing anything that I'm not already getting from a simple terminal emulator like foot. Gpu acceleration seems nice, until your GPU driver have a bug and suddenly, your terminal stops working. At the same time, even though I have been almost exclusively living in the terminal for the past five years, I cannot say I have noticed any advantage in GPU accelerated terminal emulators over foot. The only advantage, I see here is that foot is for Wayland only. Seeing as Linux is moving towards Wayland, I say that the claim over ubiquity of ghostty is a bit of an exaggeration seeing as the heaviest terminal users are in Linux. There might be something to ghostty that I would appreciate, but honestly most of the points in this video does not seem that convincing for me.

can't wait for it to release in dec!

Why are all these terminal emulators run by a**holes? WezTerm broke the mold, he's nice and polite, but wezterm feels like a 3/4 finished terminal that you have to complete yourself by writing lots of Lua - at least that was my experience.

I have been using ghostty for about three weeks now myself, I use it on arch hyprland. It is very native feeling there as well.

Thumbs down for Alacritty pronunciation.

alacritty developers are bunch of morons that refuses to provide example configuration lmao

The ability to list the fonts so you what name to use is a serious life improvement for me. I always have to play whack-a-mole guessing variations.

it's all good but ig if you just crave a fancy terminal you can get it with oh-my-posh, i mean it's a pretty solid terminal!

How does it perform in comparison with WezTerm?

so when will it be released exactly? they said Dec but still no information about release date

fellow Berkeley Mono Enjoyer :P

Ghosty feels like a problem looking for a solution

one config file... so every other modern terminal

Ghostty - the terminal version of scientology

And here I was thinking I was the only one obsessive enough to buy Berkeley Mono and turn it into a nerd font to use in a terminal!

I've only been using it since yesterday, but so far was a good replacement for alacritty. I like the built in themes. I tried to be build it from source on my Rpi 400. It builds but doesn't run, so I'll stick with alacritty on that.

Defaults:
ghostty +show-config --default --docs

Loving it so far, but I can't get new tabs to use previous tabs working directory.

We also need a way to name a tab like iTerm2

Loved this video and the full background of what else is out there. Thank you!

i've already tried it, my main terminal right now is kitty on my Sway window manager, i can say that it's overrated

Just tried, but no. Unable to connect to remote ssh because xterm-ghostty doesn't exist on the remote host.. is a no-go for me.
At least, this should provide a way to lie on the TERM in the config file.. w/ a doc.

I tried it recently, but it doesn't have text search

It is "eT cetera", not "eK cetera", man.

For test performance the best way will be run video in ASCII ;)