ghostty notes

ghostty notes

the addition of a browser to item was kind of the last straw for me. this pushed me into the open arms of ghostty which was really only missing 2 things for me to make the jump in totality.

color schemes

there’s no support for per-host themeing. i have been using this feature in iterm for years. i like having one color scheme for local terminals vs. remote terminals, etc. it’s a handy visual indicator. given that i spend the vast majority of my time in tmux on all systems, i’ve just given up on any terminal doing this as nicely as item has and leveraging the per-host themeing i have configured in tmux.

remote terminfo support

most of the servers that i log into have no idea what the xterm-ghostty terminal is. this is readily addressed by setting SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color in the ssh configuration for my per-host ssh configurations. i didn’t bother making the changes previously, and it was 30 seconds worth of thinking about th problem to come up with a solution i’m cool with.

copy on select

i’m still not down with the copy on select behavior in ghostty. i suspect this just needs a little more fiddling on my part. but the keyboard shortcuts seem to do the right thing in the near-term.