Ghostty

Ghostty, the terminal: GPU-rendered, native on macOS, with a drop-down quick terminal.

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Ghostty is the terminal every shell, tmux session and Claude Code session runs in. It is fast, it draws with the GPU, and it behaves like a Mac app: native tabs, splits, notifications and the menu bar. It is the first thing you open on the workstation.

On the workstation

Installed by the ghostty cask; the config is assets/theme/dot_config/ghostty/config, applied by the theme target.
Always dark, with the ZoolCoder colour theme and JetBrains Mono Nerd Font at 14 pt.
A glass look: 92% opacity with a blur, so the wallpaper shows faintly.
A notification when a command that ran over a minute finishes while you look elsewhere.
A bell frames its split and plays a short sound, so you see which Claude Code session is waiting.
50 MB of scrollback, copy on select, and the Option key as Alt.

Keys and commands

Key or command	Does
Cmd+`	Drop-down quick terminal from any app
Cmd+Shift+C	Claude Code in a split on the right, continuing this folder’s last conversation
Cmd+Shift+O	Glass on or off, for screen sharing
Cmd+1 to Cmd+8	Jump to a tab; new tabs open at the end so the numbers stay put

Key or command

Does

Cmd+`

Drop-down quick terminal from any app

Cmd+Shift+C

Claude Code in a split on the right, continuing this folder’s last conversation

Cmd+Shift+O

Glass on or off, for screen sharing

Cmd+1 to Cmd+8

Jump to a tab; new tabs open at the end so the numbers stay put

Ghostty

On the workstation

Keys and commands

See also

Keyboard shortcuts