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zamalek • yesterday at 8:39 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

I tried Ghostty for a few months, but found that it had the slowest launch time of all the terminals (NixOS) - we're talking seconds instead of tens of ms. Sadly, it looks like the launch improvements here are for macos.

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yorick • today at 7:44 AM

I've been working around it by setting my keybind to

  gdbus call --session --dest com.mitchellh.ghostty --object-path /com/mitchellh/ghostty --method org.gtk.Application.Activate '{}'
to instantly open new terminal windows when ghostty is already running in a single instance.
acheong08 • today at 12:11 AM

I had a similar problem maybe a year back. I've stuck to Foot since. I've got a new laptop now though and might be worth giving Ghostty another spin.

goodmythical • yesterday at 10:14 PM

What did you settle on?

I like foot but don't mind waiting a few tens of ms in exchange for kitty's graphics.

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