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👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

128 mentions on Hacker News by 110 people: 24 stories, 104 comments · first 2024-12-26 · latest 2026-10-28

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  1. Relevant GitHub Discussion [0] 0. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/3799
    comment by moderation · 2025-06-24 · in Can your terminal do emojis? How big?
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    feat: add FreeBSD support
    story by tosh · 2025-06-22 · 0 comments
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    Ghostty is a fast, cross-platform terminal emulator
    story by tzury · 2025-06-19 · 1 comment
  4. …its own build files for its packages; as a result there is a lot of Ghostty build system code: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/tree/main/pkg )
    comment by bgthompson · 2025-05-02 · in Reflecting on a Year of Gamedev in Zig
  5. …Terminals (including PowerShell, Cmd, WSL) N Fancy features (to be expanded upon later) [189] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189
    comment by karmakaze · 2025-04-22 · in Why users cannot create Issues directly
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    Why users cannot create Issues directly
    story by freetonik · 2025-04-22 · 1 comment
  7. …I prefer the one a little further down where you use a second keybind to open the editor. [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/3708#disc...
    comment by maleldil · 2025-01-31 · in Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
  8. Ghostty is great and a lot of fun, only thing missing to me is search scrollback. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189 They know about this and I think the current answer from them is just use tmux or the like. Only thing…
    comment by knuckleheads · 2025-01-31 · in Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
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    Ghostty
    story by doppp · 2025-01-23 · 0 comments
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    Ghostly: Metal alpha blending fixes and color handling improvements
    story by ksec · 2025-01-11 · 0 comments
  11. …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
    comment by auscompgeek · 2025-01-02 · in iTerm2 critical security release
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    Ghostty GitHub – Why users cannot create Issues directly
    story by frereubu · 2025-01-02 · 0 comments
  13. …one). I have been using it for the last year (private beta) on Mac and Linux and it rocks. [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty
    comment by lr1970 · 2025-01-02 · in iTerm2 critical security release
  14. https://dgl.cx/2024/12/ghostty-terminal-title https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/security/advisories/G...
    comment by sitkack · 2025-01-02 · in Ghostty 1.0
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    Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator
    story by rbanffy · 2024-12-29 · 0 comments
  16. …switching to it full time: - Missing search scrollback (cmd+f). This appears to be coming soon: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189 - More of a nitpick than anything, but the only way to disable cursor blinking is to disable…
    comment by denolfe · 2024-12-28 · in Ghostty 1.0
  17. …but otherwise, it’s absolutely stellar.! I set Ghostty as my default terminal emulator now. [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189
    comment by vinhnx · 2024-12-28 · in Ghostty 1.0
  18. See https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189#issuecomme...
    comment by Valodim · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0
  19. Neat, this [1] looks like the project uses vttest [2] to test DEC VT terminal compatibility? [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/TODO.md [2] https://invisible-island.net/vttest/
    comment by yourapostasy · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0
  20. I raised an issue for this: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3435
    comment by noisy_boy · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0
  21. …mean CMD+F search would work, but looks like that was pushed back to a later release unfortunately. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189#issuecomme...
    comment by styfle · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0
  22. …during my short tenure as a Mac user. I can see from your github issues that this is in the works( https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/1935 ), which is great. It looks like a lot of the necessary UI elements are already in place,…
    comment by mtlmtlmtlmtl · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0
  23. …it before trying it. Setting the initial height of the quick terminal is under development: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/2384 Lack of tab support in the quick terminal is a bummer, but it should come eventually:…
    comment by manmal · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0
  24. …on Alacritty + xterm and others. I might file an issue if I can nail it down a bit more. [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues
    comment by abound · 2024-12-26 · in Ghostty 1.0
  25. …native fullscreen outweighs everything else. Edit: Ok here we go, this is why it's not implemented: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/392#issuecomme... There's more than one workaround which is superior in my opinion:…
    comment by jhatemyjob · 2024-12-26 · in Ghostty 1.0
  26. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty#roadmap-and-status
    comment by kermatt · 2024-12-26 · in Ghostty 1.0
  27. source is open https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty
    comment by wutwutwat · 2024-12-26 · in Ghostty 1.0
  28. 0.13.0 https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/4b4d4062dfed7b37... The full script is pretty much: $ wget https://ziglang.org/download/0.13.0/zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0.... $ tar xvf zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0.tar.xz $ git clone…
    comment by eddythompson80 · 2024-12-26 · in Ghostty 1.0