This introduces a syntax for `command` and `initial-command` that allows
the user to specify whether it should be run via `/bin/sh -c` or not.
The syntax is a prefix `direct:` or `shell:` prior to the command,
with no prefix implying a default behavior as documented.
Previously, we unconditionally ran commands via `/bin/sh -c`, primarily
to avoid having to do any shell expansion ourselves. We also leaned on
it as a crutch for PATH-expansion but this is an easy problem compared
to shell expansion.
For the principle of least surprise, this worked well for configurations
specified via the config file, and is still the default. However, these
configurations are also set via the `-e` special flag to the CLI, and it
is very much not the principle of least surprise to have the command run via
`/bin/sh -c` in that scenario since a shell has already expanded all the
arguments and given them to us in a nice separated format. But we had no
way to toggle this behavior.
This commit introduces the ability to do this, and changes the defaults
so that `-e` doesn't shell expand. Further, we also do PATH lookups
ourselves for the non-shell expanded case because thats easy (using
execvpe style extensions but implemented as part of the Zig stdlib). We don't
do path expansion (e.g. `~/`) because thats a shell expansion.
So to be clear, there are no two polar opposite behavioes here with
clear semantics:
1. Direct commands are passed to `execvpe` directly, space separated.
This will not handle quoted strings, environment variables, path
expansion (e.g. `~/`), command expansion (e.g. `$()`), etc.
2. Shell commands are passed to `/bin/sh -c` and will be shell expanded
as per the shell's rules. This will handle everything that `sh`
supports.
In doing this work, I also stumbled upon a variety of smaller
improvements that could be made:
- A number of allocations have been removed from the startup path that
only existed to add a null terminator to various strings. We now
have null terminators from the beginning since we are almost always
on a system that's going to need it anyways.
- For bash shell integration, we no longer wrap the new bash command
in a shell since we've formed a full parsed command line.
- The process of creating the command to execute by termio is now unit
tested, so we can test the various complex cases particularly on
macOS of wrapping commands in the login command.
- `xdg-terminal-exec` on Linux uses the `direct:` method by default
since it is also assumed to be executed via a shell environment.
Fixes#5257
Specify environment variables to pass to commands launched in a terminal
surface. The format is `env=KEY=VALUE`.
`env = foo=bar`
`env = bar=baz`
Setting `env` to an empty string will reset the entire map to default
(empty).
`env =`
Setting a key to an empty string will remove that particular key and
corresponding value from the map.
`env = foo=bar`
`env = foo=`
will result in `foo` not being passed to the launched commands.
Setting a key multiple times will overwrite previous entries.
`env = foo=bar`
`env = foo=baz`
will result in `foo=baz` being passed to the launched commands.
These environment variables _will not_ be passed to commands run by Ghostty
for other purposes, like `open` or `xdg-open` used to open URLs in your
browser.
Fixes#3648
The confirm-close-surface configuration can now be set to always
ensuring a confirmation dialog is shown before closing a surface, even
if shell integration indicates no running processes.
This commit refactors RepeatablePath to contain a list of tagged unions
containing "optional" and "required" variants. Both variants have a null
terminated file path as their payload, but the tag dictates whether the
path must exist or not. This implemenation is used to force consumers to
handle the optional vs. required distinction.
This also moves the parsing of optional file paths into RepeatablePath's
parseCLI function. This allows the code to be better unit tested. Since
RepeatablePath no longer contains a simple list of RepeatableStrings,
many other of its methods needed to be reimplemented as well.
Because all of this functionality is built into the RepeatablePath type,
other config options which also use RepeatablePath gain the ability to
specify optional paths as well. Right now this is only the
"custom-shaders" option. The code paths in the renderer to load shader
files has been updated accordingly.
In the original optional config file parsing, the leading ? character
was removed when paths were expanded. Thus, when config files were
actually loaded recursively, they appeared to be regular (required)
config files and an error occurred if the file did not exist. **This
issue was not found during testing because the presence of the
"theme" option masks the error**. I am not sure why the presence of
"theme" does this, I did not dig into that.
Now because the "optional" or "required" state of each path is tracked
in the enum tag the "optional" status of the path is preserved after
being expanded to an absolute path.
Finally, this commit fixes a bug where missing "config-file" files were
not included in the +show-config command (i.e. if a user had
`config-file = foo.conf` and `foo.conf` did not exist, then `ghostty
+show-config` would only display `config-file =`). This bug applied to
`custom-shaders` too, where it has also been fixed.
This adds a new configuration "font-synthetic-style" to enable or
disable synthetic styles. This is different from "font-style-*" which
specifies a named style or disables a style completely.
Instead, "font-synthetic-style" will disable only the creation of
synthetic styles in the case a font does not support a given style.
This is useful for users who want to obviously know when a font doesn't
support a given style or a user who wants to explicitly only use the
styles that were designed by the font designer.
The default value is to enable all synthetic styles.
This makes a few major changes:
- cursor style on terminal is single source of stylistic truth
- cursor style is split between style and style request
- cursor blinking is handled by the renderer thread
- cursor style/visibility is no longer stored as persistent state on
renderers
- cursor style computation is extracted to be shared by all renderers
- mode 12 "cursor_blinking" is now source of truth on whether blinking
is enabled or not
- CSI q and mode 12 are synced like xterm
This is based on our conversation on Discord and adds a setting for GTK
that allows disabling the GTK single-instance mode.
If this is off, it's possible to start multiple applications from the
same release binary.
Tested like this:
```
$ zig build -Dapp-runtime=gtk -Doptimize=ReleaseFast && ./zig-out/bin/ghostty --gtk-single-instance=false
[... starts new application ...]
```
and
```
$ zig build -Dapp-runtime=gtk -Doptimize=ReleaseFast && ./zig-out/bin/ghostty --gtk-single-instance=true
info: ghostty version=0.1.0-main+42a22893
info: runtime=apprt.Runtime.gtk
info: font_backend=font.main.Backend.fontconfig_freetype
info: dependency harfbuzz=8.0.0
info: dependency fontconfig=21400
info: renderer=renderer.OpenGL
info: libxev backend=main.Backend.io_uring
info(os): LANG is not valid according to libc, will use en_US.UTF-8
info: reading configuration file path=/home/mrnugget/.config/ghostty/config
info(config): default shell source=env value=/usr/bin/zsh
(process:49045): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 13:55:56.116: Your application did not unregister from D-Bus before destruction. Consider using g_application_run().
[exits]
```
This is part of #319 by fixing it for GTK and introducing the
configuration option.
This adds `window-decoration = false` as a possible configuration
option. If set to `false`, then no window decorations are used.
