# Ghostty

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

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+\`

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Drop-down quick terminal from any app

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Cmd+Shift+C

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

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| 

Cmd+Shift+O

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Glass on or off, for screen sharing

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Cmd+1 to Cmd+8

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

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## See also

-   [tmux](tmux.html)
    
-   [zsh, antidote and plugins](zsh.html)
    
-   [Claude Code and AI tools](claude-code.html)
    
-   [Ghostty website](https://ghostty.org)