terminals

I had ~10 years of iTerm2 muscle memory which stopped me switching for ages. I also liked the half-screen dropdown terminals from iTerm that Ghostty doesn't have . But I switche…

by ritzaco · Oct 28, 2026

Bugs are fine, but this wasn't really a bug. It was lack of foresight. I haven't used Konsole, but I do like this "recent" focus on terminals and have used many of the newer one…

by tjoff · Oct 28, 2026

I'm using xterm.js with the canvas/gpu renderer in my app, driving these modern coding agents that seems to use every features in the book of terminals and it's perfectly f…

by smashed · Oct 28, 2026

Congratulations, don’t use Ghostty or terminals built on top of libghostty and you don’t have to!

by blackqueeriroh · Oct 28, 2026

I tried a bunch of terminals and ended up switching back to xfce-terminal, fastest I have tried by far. (It's just the default that ships with my distro.) Actually I think xterm…

by andai · Oct 28, 2026

Certainly parts of terminals protocols are archaic, but overall it's not nearly as fragile as you make it out to be.

by elcritch · Oct 28, 2026