Join me on a haunting adventure as we explore the cutesy world of the Ghosty terminal emulator.
In this beginner-friendly video, I'll guide you through setting up and customizing this adorable terminal built with Zig and Swift. We'll tweak the font size, themes (including appearance-responding light and dark mode), and even tackle a little TMUX.
Chapters
00:00 Why is everyone talking about Ghostty?
01:07 Video starts at
01:07
02:07 Add Ghostty config on Mac
03:11 Reload config with ⌘ + ⇧ + ,
03:38 Show config options with +show-config action
04:04 Full app restart required to change font-size
04:35 Mid-video summary
04:56 Split config into multiple files with config-file key
05:25 Use config keys as CLI arguments (doesn't work for me)
06:17 Open default config file in TextEdit
06:40 Ghostty hearts TMUX
07:41 List built-in themes with +list-themes action
08:23 Set Ghostty theme with theme key
08:54 Respond to system appearance with light and dark theme options
09:52 ⌥ + DELETE system shortcut works by default