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zamalek · 2026-10-27T20:39:47.000Z

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.

acheong08 · 2026-10-28T00:11:55.000Z

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.

zamalek · 2026-10-28T23:13:10.000Z

My machine is an almost bleeding edge gaming+dev desktop; I do not believe it was anything near a hardware problem, but best of luck!

yorick · 2026-10-28T07:44:20.000Z

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.

goodmythical · 2026-10-27T22:14:32.000Z

What did you settle on?

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

zamalek · 2026-10-27T22:18:29.000Z

I'm on Rio at the moment, pending a wezterm bugfix (but I might just stick to Rio). The launch is perceptually instant on all my machines, and it does support sixels and all that nonsense.