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Closes the remaining artifact rows of the final audit (docs/rewrite/notes/final-Z4.md): - webgen: config.mdx, actions.mdx, commands.mdx (byte-identical to Zig's webgen output once its missing stdout flush is added) - `just install-lib`: libghostty (+ ghostty.h, modulemap) and libghostty-vt with versioned symlinks, headers and libghostty-vt.pc - scripts/xcframework.sh: per-arch builds, lipo and xcodebuild -create-xcframework for GhosttyKit (dry-run verified only) - `just install` builds --profile production so the installed app id is com.mitchellh.ghostty; other profiles install the -debug id/name - `just update-translations`: xgettext/msgmerge pipeline; extracted msgids equal upstream's .pot (found and fixed an untranslated string in the child-exited banner) - `just dist` / `distcheck`: versioned source tarball with VERSION and a prebuilt GTK resource bundle - Windows: icon, version resource and DPI/common-controls manifest embedded via embed-resource, GUI subsystem Test Plan: - just install-lib /tmp/p release all && pkg-config --cflags \ --libs /tmp/p/share/pkgconfig/libghostty-vt.pc - just distcheck
ghostty-rs
A Rust rewrite of the Ghostty 1.3.1 terminal emulator for Linux (GTK4 + libadwaita, OpenGL).
It aims for behavioural parity with Ghostty: the same configuration file
format, options, defaults and documentation; the same keybindings and
actions; the same ghostty +action CLI; the same terminal emulation
(including kitty keyboard/graphics protocols, OSC 8 hyperlinks, semantic
prompts, synchronized output, tmux control mode); the same shell
integration, themes and terminfo.
Out of scope: macOS, Windows, WASM, the embedded libghostty C API, and
Sentry crash reporting (disabled by default on Linux upstream).
Building and running
Requirements: Rust (edition 2024), GTK ≥ 4.14, libadwaita ≥ 1.5,
fontconfig, freetype, harfbuzz, Oniguruma, libepoxy, blueprint-compiler
and glib-compile-resources at build time.
cargo run # open a terminal window running your shell
cargo run -- -e htop # run a command
cargo run -- +list-themes # CLI actions work like Ghostty's
cargo run --profile production # optimized build (LTO, no debug assertions)
Development builds find resources/ (shell integration, themes, terminfo)
automatically. Your existing Ghostty config
(~/.config/ghostty/config[.ghostty]) is used as-is.
Installing
just install /usr/local # binary, share/ghostty, terminfo, desktop files,
# completions, man pages, translations, icons
just install /usr false true # system-package layout (lib/systemd/user)
Testing
just test # cargo test --workspace (~3000 tests)
just clippy # clippy with -D warnings
Every Zig test block of the ported files was ported to a Rust test.
crates/ghostty-core/tests holds end-to-end tests that drive the real core,
terminal and a real pty through a fake app runtime. ghostty-bench mirrors
Ghostty's benchmark tool; terminal stream throughput is on par with the Zig
build (see docs/rewrite/notes/perf-P1.md).
Documentation
docs/rewrite/ARCHITECTURE.md– top-down decomposition, crate map, key design decisions, intentional omissionsdocs/rewrite/STATUS.md– work package historydocs/rewrite/notes/– per-crate porting notes, deviations from Zig, audits and verification reports
License
MIT, like Ghostty. Bundled fonts and themes carry their own licenses (see
crates/ghostty-font/res/ and resources/themes/).