The first version of Ghostty, one of the fastest terminal emulators in existence, was recently released. Reddit and many YouTube channels have already dubbed it the best. On Github project in a short period of time collected >15k ⭐.
Features:
- Multi-platform.
- Written in a programming language that is becoming increasingly popular zig.
- Uses native UI (requires GTK 4 on Linux) and GPU acceleration.
- No pre-configuration required.
- Automatically integrates with shell (supports bash, zsh, fish and exotic elvish).
- Has tabs and window splitting.
- Supports ligatures and other font settings.
- The author also insists that this emulator is faster than kitty.
- Supports image output via the same protocol kitty.
- Has 344 built-in themes.
Installation:
# Arch Linux sudo pacman -S ghostty # MacOS brew install —cask ghostty
View topics:
ghostty +list-themes
Config example:
~/.config/ghostty/config
font-family = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono" theme = tokyonight background-opacity = 0.9
Source: linux.org.ru
