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Ghostty in review: how's the new terminal emulator? (thelibre.news)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A few months ago, a new terminal emulator was released. It's called ghostty, and it has been a highly anticipated terminal emulator for a while, especially due to the coverage that it received from ThePrimeagen, who had been using for a while, while it was in private beta.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately they decided to use the slow bloated mess that is GTK4.

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/5592#discussioncomment-13186436

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

 ~ pacman -Si ghostty | grep Size
Download Size   : 14.05 MiB
Installed Size  : 30.96 MiB
 ~ pacman -Si foot | grep Size
Download Size   : 320.45 KiB
Installed Size  : 758.50 KiB

nuff said

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

They have a Glfw build, it is a lot smaller and faster but they don't want to support it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Has terabytes of storage

Worried about a 30 megs

nuff said

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

foot is such a lovely little program. It has everything I want for a terminal emulator: it launches instantly, it has zero lag, no fluff, excellent font rendering, excellent copy/paste handling, excellent compatibility, and it's easily configurable and themable via a sensible, well documented config file.

TFW I realize I am a foot fetishist ... 😮

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

My gnome-terminal had some issues with nerd fonts so I started term jumping again. Went back to alacritty but quickly remembered that it doesn't have tabs and even quicker apt removed this piece of trash. I didn't even try kitty again after remembering how stupid it is to use it with ssh. Tried wezterm, everything worked like a charm, still using it. If it gives me any trouble I will try Ghostty, looks nice.