Ghostty in review: how's the new terminal emulator?

https://thelibre.news/ghostty-in-review-hows-the-new-terminal-emulator/

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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Samueru_sama@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y

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

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

treeshateorcs@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y (5 replies)

 ~ 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

SpaceCadet@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 1y

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 ... 😮

Shareni@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Has terabytes of storage

Worried about a 30 megs

nuff said

treeshateorcs@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y

unused RAM is wasted RAM right?

ulterno@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y

Except that it's not enough:

❯ pacman -Sii ghostty
...
Depends On      : bzip2  fontconfig  libfontconfig.so=1-64  freetype2  libfreetype.so=6-64  gcc-libs  glibc  glib2  libglib-2.0.so=0-64  libgio-2.0.so=0-64  libgobject-2.0.so=0-64  gtk4  libgtk-4.so=1-64  libx11  harfbuzz
                  libharfbuzz.so=0-64  libadwaita  libadwaita-1.so=0-64  libpng  oniguruma  pixman  zlib  ghostty-shell-integration  ghostty-terminfo
...
Download Size   : 14.05 MiB
Installed Size  : 30.96 MiB

❯ pacman -Sii foot
...
Depends On      : fcft  fontconfig  libfcft.so=4-64  libutf8proc  libxkbcommon  ncurses  pixman  wayland
Optional Deps   : foot-terminfo: extra non-standard features over terminfo included in ncurses
                  libnotify: desktop notifications
                  xdg-utils: URI launching
...
Download Size   : 320.45 KiB
Installed Size  : 758.50 KiB

For contrast:

❯ pacman -Sii konsole
...
Depends On      : glibc  gcc-libs  icu  kbookmarks  kcolorscheme  kconfig  kconfigwidgets  kcoreaddons  kcrash  kdbusaddons  kglobalaccel  kguiaddons  ki18n  kiconthemes  kio  knewstuff  knotifications  knotifyconfig  kparts  kpty
                  kservice  ktextwidgets  kwidgetsaddons  kwindowsystem  kxmlgui  qt6-base  qt6-multimedia  sh
Optional Deps   : keditbookmarks: to manage bookmarks
...
Download Size   : 2.12 MiB
Installed Size  : 9.36 MiB

Samueru_sama@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y

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

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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.

jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

what do ex lispers write? reality bubbles?

ikidd@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

Gnome terminal got tabs? Last time I used that piece of shit, it didn't even have that.

cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 340d

I am torn between kgx (gnome-console) and ghostty