Ghostty
Fast, native, feature-rich terminal emulator pushing modern features.
Date Created:
March 29, 2022
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Language:
Is Hardware Accelerated:
Yes
Image / Terminal Graphics Protocol Support:
Yes
Sixel Support:
No
Source Code Availability:
Open Source (MIT)
Development State:
Ghostty is a terminal emulator with a focus on being fast, feature-rich and native. It is cross-platform on macOS and Linux and is written in Zig.
It has features such as GPU acceleration (Metal on macOS and OpenGL on Linux), font ligatures, support for images using the Kitty Graphics Protocol, themes, hyperlink support, emoji and multi codepoint characters support, shell integration, multi-windows, splits, tabs and a terminal inspector which shows technical internal information about the terminal for developers.
How to install Ghostty
You can install Ghostty via brew (brew install ghostty) for macOS or AUR (pacman/yay -S ghostty) or you can download it manually via the website.