Thoughts on ghostty 💻

A bit later then all the cool kids, I tried ghostty (on Linux), and I really like it.

Configuration and how to use the same options in the config file and as command line parameters is a breeze. I find ghosttys options to be very discoverable and the manpage works really well for me. I didn’t do much customization, but set up a light and a dark theme. Opted for rose-pine-dawn for light and rose-pine-moon. A good combination, but often times not supported by various terminals. Additionally some minor tweaks to keybinds.

I would say, I am a tmux user for decades… what can’t be really true, because it’s initial release was in late 2007, and I’m not sure that I was on it from the beginning. However, I used both screen and tmux, and even gave zellij a try. ghostty is the first terminal that seemingly makes a terminal multiplexer redundant for me, because I don’t use too many features on a regular basis. The only thing… my muscle memory needs some more time to adjust.