The Ghostty terminal is now packaged within the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS repositories – which means for the ones at the new long-term make stronger liberate, it’s most effective an apt set up away.
Ghostty is a quick, open-source terminal emulator for macOS and Linux (Home windows make stronger is apparently trapped between planes), made by way of Mitchell Hashimoto.
It’s picked up hundreds of thousands of customers since its release in December 2024, and has been to be had on Ubuntu by way of a community-maintained PPA, DEB and Snap applications for some time. That is its first look within the Ubuntu repos correct.
What makes Ghostty other?
“Ghostty is a quick, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that makes use of platform-native UI and GPU acceleration”, reads the web site blurb.
The important thing USP, but even so its velocity and its options – extra on the ones in a 2nd – is that that it’s open-source instrument that runs on macOS and Linux and, crucially, is local to each platforms.
On macOS it makes use of Swift, hooks into system-level APIs and respects default keyboard shortcuts. On Linux it’s GTK4/libadwaita, Wayland-compatible, and it received’t trip roughshod over your DE or distro-level keybindings.
No bloated cross-platform toolkits and no taking a look alien among local apps. Ghostty’s corporeal shape is completely consistent with its setting.
Past that, it be offering the standard options like home windows, tabs, splits, profiles and color issues. It additionally gives ligature make stronger, grapheme clustering for emoji and the Kitty graphics protocol, which is in a position to render photographs immediately within the terminal. All the time cool.
Configuration is finished via a textual content document, however there’s on-line documentation to lend a hand the ones extra used to clicking choices in a personal tastes panel. One atmosphere I all the time permit: the GTK header bar, which merges terminal tabs inline with the window controls.
Putting in Ghostty on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships with Ptyxis as its default terminal, which may be hardware-accelerated and completely succesful. Ghostty is, like every others, merely an alternate – one smartly fitted to the ones transfer often between macOS and Linux and desire a constant revel in.
Ghostty 1.3.0, which no longer the newest liberate, is now to be had within the universe phase of the resolute repos. Because it’s no longer in major, it’s no longer formally supported by way of Canonical with ongoing updates, however gets safety protection by way of Ubuntu Professional.
Putting in Ghostty it simple – pop open App Middle and seek for it, or run this command:
sudo apt set up ghostty
You don’t want to be an OS-hopping developer to make use of it because it’s a forged terminal by itself – despite the fact that for those who use a low-spec device or a digital device the GPU-accelerated rendering could be a restricting issue.
For everybody else, it’s price a glance. I quilt Ghostty updates often, so dig into the archives if you need extra background at the app and the way it’s evolved.
