[retrofuturism]

I recently gave Ghostty a chance and have since switched over from iTerm2 completely. It's very familiar and polished.

[akerl_]

Probably worth noting that Ghostty was very recently vulnerable to an old/familiar class of terminal vuln that bit a bunch of older terminal applications a while back: https://dgl.cx/2024/12/ghostty-terminal-title

So moving to a newer / less "bloated" terminal may also just wind the clock back and cause you to encounter a similar sequence of vulns again, like some kind of unfortunate real-world "New Game Plus".

[jolux]

Having a vuln that many other terminal emulators have had is pretty different from the string of unique and extremely bad vulns that iTerm has had over the years. It’s possible that we’ll see similar from Ghostty, but it’s a much newer and I believe smaller codebase, so I’m willing to give it a second chance.

[samatman]

Ghostty has also been out for what, a week? So this is the open season / shakedown, when security researchers get to try out all the old favorites and see what got missed.

I don't think there are larger lessons to draw from that occurrence. A reputation for security has to be earned, and Ghostty hasn't been around long enough for that. From my vantage point it's on track, but only time will tell.

[crabique]

Unfortunately, it's nowhere near close feature-wise just yet: proper quake mode, search, prompt navigation, line timestamps, tab output indicators, forced keyboard locales, customizable toolbar with user-defined variables/indicators, are all too useful to give up iTerm2 for anything.

[__float]

What is "proper Quake mode"? Have you tried https://ghostty.org/docs/config/keybind/reference#toggle_qui...? (I don't have the habit to use this feature, but I'd like to!)

The others do sound useful too -- I personally hit a lot of spurious "tab output indicator" notifications in iTerm2, but if it _did_ work I could see how giving it up would be painful.

[cosmic_cheese]

I tried iTerm’s quake mode after the Visor haxie for Terminal.app was shuttered, but unfortunately was left disappointed. Its behavior is kinda glitchy and inconsistent in comparison, which was surprising because one would expect a native feature to be better than one hacked in by a third party, but that was not the case here.

[lilyball]

What's not proper about Ghostty's quake mode?

[dave4420]

I tried Ghostty earlier in the week, but couldn’t get it set up to look the same as iterm2 (the colours are off and text looks different somehow with the same typeface at the same size). Which is just cosmetic but makes it feel wrong viscerally.

I’ll give it another go at the weekend.

[crabique]

Somehow this is the first time I see anyone else bring this up, but the fonts are absolutely displayed with wrong kerning on my mac, for my font (at 12pt) I was able to make it look the same as iTerm2 with adjust-cell-{width,height} both set to -5%.

[dave4420]

It seems that I had iTerm2 configured to display bold text as bright text (instead of bold). And I use bold, coloured text in my prompt, so that threw me.

I configured

    bold-is-bright = true

and suddenly everything looks fine. I'll see how I get on with it.

https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#bold-is-bright

[johnthedebs]

I noticed the colors looked off when I was trying out Ghostty as well. Adding this line to my config fixed it after restarting the app: `window-colorspace = display-p3`

https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#window-colorspace

[samatman]

Ghostty supports iTerm themes, so you should be able to transfer your preferred look-and-feel directly. I just picked one I liked, so I'm not familiar with the process, but it can be done.

[dsego]

I used font-thicken = true and it looks pretty good, very similar to iTerm.

[kergonath]

I am using both at the moment, but iTerm has many, many features missing in ghostty. Most of them are not huge, but overall that’s a lot of paper cuts. Ultimately I wish both will stick around. Both have good ideas and I’d like them to keep evolving.

[segasaturn]

I tried Ghostty but the configuration file seems to be flakey. For example I wasn't able to turn off the cursor blinking in it (huge distraction for me) despite there being a configuration flag for it, it just wouldn't take it.

[auscompgeek]

There's a known issue where the shell integration doesn't respect that setting when it sets the cursor shape. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2812

[dsego]

Have you tried shell-integration-features = no-cursor ?

[dsego]

I also switched over to Ghostty, but now can't do Cmd+F to search for strings, I think it's on the roadmap though. Also, there are no scroll bars on the Mac version, which I guess is not that important for a terminal.

[woadwarrior01]

I did the same. Although, Ghostty doesn't seem to have support for Find (⌘-F), yet. Also, had some minor hiccups with it and tmux on remote hosts.

[NovaX]

I've resorted to using Cmd-Shift-J (scrollback buffer) and grepping that, but its flaky about whether it will honor the command and emit a history file.

[rcpt]

I tried Ctrl+r while she'd and it didn't work. Otherwise ghosty looked great

[FreePalestine1]

Does Ghostty support natural text editing like iTerm2 does?

[hmeh]

Same. So far so good.

[throwaway314155]

> It's very familiar...

It is? Because as far as I can tell it is deliberately quite different from iTerm2. No GUI for preferences, for instance.

Not knocking it, it's a great terminal. I wouldn't describe it as "familiar" though, unless you're switching from, say, WezTerm or Alacritty.

[tylersmith]

Ghostty hasn't had to put out a critical update since before 1.0 launched.