Ghostty quick-terminal makes Mac terminals useful again
Ghostty quick-terminal makes Mac terminals useful again
A while back I whinged hard about terminals on Mac. At the time I was unaware, or it didn’t exist - not sure - of Ghostty’s “quick terminal”.
This for my interests works exactly the same as how I’ve setup iTerm to dropdown using F12. Which is/was the only way to achieve what many linux terminals offer out of the box. Yakuke, Guake and ddterm being examples of this.
I think now I can safely transition from iTerm and WezTerm (still love the lua configs..) and make Ghostty my daily.
Some references:
- https://dbushell.com/2025/04/11/ghostty-macos-quick-terminal/
- https://ghostty.org/docs/features#macos
Note, I’ve not tested quick term on linux. I have read conflicting reports; x11 is okay but wayland might not be supported. Honestly, I think it’ll eventually get support there but it would be a real shame if it doesn’t get implemented. Still, linux has many great offerings and I largely use Zellij inside Ghostty anyway which works in Guake/Yakuke/ddterm as-is
Tags:
#ghostty #terminal