Features
GPU acceleration
The renderer draws on the GPU, with ligatures and fast scrollback.
Kitty graphics protocol
Inline images in the terminal.
Splits and tabs
A native GTK4 and libadwaita app, on Wayland and X11.
Command palette
A fuzzy search over every Ghostty command.
One config file
Every option lives in ~/.config/ghostty/config.
Tracks upstream
CI resolves the head of ghostty-org/ghostty:main weekly and builds with that commit's own manifest.
Get started
Flatpak (TunaOS remote)
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists tuna-os https://tunaos.org/flatpak/tuna-os.flatpakrepo
flatpak install tuna-os com.mitchellh.ghosttyOther sources
# distro packages and the macOS app:
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