Followed Sergey Predvoditelev and tried Ghostty instead of WezTerm for a few days.
🔸Some things I use daily were better:
1. Window decoration feels native by default.
2. Can drag and drop tabs with mouse.
3. Can rename tabs with mouse.
4. Mouse context menu to split windows (not using it much anyway, covered by
tmux)5. Scrollbar.
🔸Some things are about the same:
1. Performance.
2. Color themes.
🔸Had to configure a few things:
theme = Apple System Colors
font-size = 11
copy-on-select = clipboard
app-notifications = no-clipboard-copy
Copy when selecting and do it silently, font size and color theme I like.
🔸Missing
1. Windows support.
2. Utilities such as
imgcat.3. Advanced multiplexing with workspaces, remote support etc. (I've used tmux and ssh anyway).
4. Lua scripting in configs (haven't used it much).
I had to replace
wezterm imgcat that I use to view images via `mc`. Ghostty doesn't ship with a viewer so:sudo apt install timg
timg my_image.jpg
It is actually faster than WezTerm's so a good replacement.
A clear drawback is quite bad documentation. Ghostty has more features than explicitly documented. For example, command palette that is available via
ctrl + shift + p could be found only by exploring current hotkeys. But that's not a deal breaker.Overall, a good terminal to keep.
#linux #wezterm #ghostty #terminal
