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About
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration to deliver speed, features, and familiarity without compromise. Ghostty provides fully standards-compliant emulation, drawing on ECMA-48 and xterm conventions, to ensure compatibility with existing shells and software, while its multi-renderer architecture leverages OpenGL (with ligature support) to sustain smooth rendering up to 60 fps under heavy load and minimal I/O jitter via a dedicated I/O thread. It offers modern windowing capabilities such as multi-window, tabbing, and splits, and embraces native platform experiences through SwiftUI and GTK4, all built atop a shared core written in Zig (“libghostty”) that can be embedded via a C API. Users benefit from basic customizability (fonts, backgrounds, colors), an opt-in feature set for interactive CLI tools, and performance competitive with leading terminal emulators.
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About
xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, first released to emulate DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 hardware and provide a windowed interface for applications that cannot access X directly. Each xterm window runs as a separate process, locally or remotely, while sharing keyboard and mouse input with only the focused window receiving events. It implements ANSI/ISO color support via the “new” color model for background erase and recognizes most VT220 control sequences, along with select features from VT320, VT420, and VT520 devices. Over its history, xterm’s terminal description evolved from VT102 (pre-1996) to VT220 (1996–2012) and, since 2012, to VT420, ensuring compatibility with modern applications. Xterm remains actively maintained and extensible through companion tools like luit for encoding support and the X Toolkit for resource configuration, making it a complete, standards-compliant emulator for Unix-based environments.
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Platforms Supported
Windows
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Mac
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Linux
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Cloud
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On-Premises
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iPhone
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iPad
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Android
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Chromebook
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Platforms Supported
Windows
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Mac
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Linux
Supported
Cloud
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On-Premises
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iPhone
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iPad
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Android
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Chromebook
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Audience
Power users seeking a solution providing a terminal emulator with modern windowing features and GPU acceleration
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Audience
System administrators, developers and users needing a tool to emulate video terminals within other display architectures
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Support
Phone Support
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24/7 Live Support
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Online
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Support
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24/7 Live Support
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API
Offers API
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Pricing
Free
Free Version
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Free Trial
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Pricing
Free
Free Version
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Reviews/
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Training
Documentation
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Webinars
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Live Online
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Training
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Company InformationGhostty
United States
ghostty.org
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Company Informationinvisible-island
Founded: 1998
United States
invisible-island.net/xterm/
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Integrations
Debian
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NetBSD
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OpenGL
Supported
Solaris
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SwiftUI
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boat
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Integrations
Debian
Supported
NetBSD
Supported
OpenGL
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Solaris
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SwiftUI
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