I never got a response in the Discord server about PRing this so I
figured I would open the PR anyways.
I thought it might be a good idea to add this info into the README for
all the testers currently using Ghostty. I also think it might be a good
idea to have this in place before Ghostty goes public to potentially cut
down on the number of incoming requests for help and support regarding
configuration files and the inevitable duplicate requests for GUI
settings.
If this isn't something you'd like to add, feel free to close this. If
you want it adjusted in some way, let me know!
Bash shell detection was originally disabled in #1823 due to problems
with /bin/bash on macOS.
Apple distributes their own patched version of Bash 3.2 on macOS that
disables the POSIX-style $ENV-based startup path:
e5397a7e74/bash-3.2/shell.c (L1112-L1114)
This means we're unable to perform our automatic shell integration
sequence in this specific environment. Standard Bash 3.2 works fine.
Knowing this, we can re-enable bash shell detection by default unless
we're running "/bin/bash" on Darwin. We can safely assume that's the
unsupported Bash executable because /bin is non-writable on modern macOS
installations due to System Integrity Protection.
macOS users can either manually source our shell integration script
(which otherwise works fine with Apple's Bash) or install a standard
version of Bash from Homebrew or elsewhere.
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This is the icon that we'll launch Ghostty 1.0 with. It was designed by
Michael Flareup at PixelResort. It retains the style of the original
Ghostty icon by Alasdair Monk, but brings in the new Ghost character and
adds details that make it more Apple-like.
The new Ghost character is an important evolution from the original
since it separates us from looking too much like PacMan. The new Ghost
is more unique and recognizable to Ghostty (or, hopefully will be!).
The icon itself has more details: the aluminum around the edge has
texture for the large enough sizes, there are visible scanlines, the
glow of a screen emanates from the ghost.
The icon itself is stylistic more Apple-like than other platforms. I
think Apple icons tend to look very good in more environments than the
reverse and I'm a big fan of the Apple aesthetic so I wanted to bring
that to Ghostty for all platforms.
I am actually not sure if this was meant as a sly pun. It definitely works that way, terminals are _de jour_ meaning _of the day_, but the contrastive with _de facto_ makes me lean toward typo / malaprop.
The thing is it's a good pun, and I almost let it be for that reason. But I lean towards unintended, so here's a patch, feel free to close it if I read it wrong, er, right? Y'know.
macOS 12 is officially EOL by Apple and the project only supports
officially supported versions of macOS. Once publicly released, users on
older macOS versions will have to use older released builds.
currently when copying code snippets one has to manually remove the dollar sign first. Consider:
```sh
$ echo "this can't be copy pasted into terminal because of the initial $"
```
vs.
```sh
echo "this is fine"
```
After finding out about ghostty from Jarred Sumner's Twitter, I immediately searched the AUR for a package and found `ghostty-git`, which should be perfect for keeping up with development as `-git` packages can be set to update with new pushes when updating your system!
For now, bash integration must be explicitly enabled (by setting
`shell-integration = bash`). Our automatic shell integration requires
bash version 4 or later, and systems like macOS continue to ship bash
version 3 by default. This approach avoids the cost of performing a
runtime version check.
A minor addition, but saves future folks wondering if they need to
figure out different packages on Debian in order to get Ghostty to
compile (they don't).
