Conversion of #7497 to a PR. This implements a feature requested in
#7331: an option to hide the default window buttons on macOS for a
cleaner aesthetic.
~~Builds on #7502 as it requires the same change to avoid the main
toolbar title showing on top of the tab bar.~~ EDIT: rebased on main now
that #7502 was merged.
I aligned the scope of the new option with `macos-titlebar-style`, since
they both customize titlebar elements. This means it has the same edge
case quirks: For example, if you change the setting, reload the config,
and then open a new tab, the appearance of the current window will
depend on which tab is in the foreground. I did it this way because
`macos-titlebar-style` provided an easy template for which derived
configs and functions to modify. Let me know if you want me to try
adjusting this so that a change in the setting also takes effect for
current windows/tabs, which I _think_ should be possible.
Screenshots:
* `macos-titlebar-style = transparent` (default)


* `macos-titlebar-style = tabs`


Related to #7433
This extracts our "launched from desktop" logic into a config option.
The default value is detection using the same logic as before, but now
this can be overridden by the user.
This also adds the systemd and dbus activation sources from #7433.
There are a number of reasons why we decided to do this:
1. It automatically gets us caching since the configuration is only
loaded once (per reload, a rare occurrence).
2. It allows us to override the logic when testing. Previously, we
had to do more complex environment faking to get the same
behavior.
3. It forces exhaustive switches in any desktop handling code, which
will make it easier to ensure valid behaviors if we introduce new
launch sources (as we are in #7433).
4. It lowers code complexity since callsites don't need to have N
`launchedFromX()` checks and can use a single value.
Fixes#7481
We unfortunately don't have a great way to unit test this since our
logic relies on argv and I'm too lazy to extract it out right now.
The core issue is that we previously detected if font-families changed
by comparing lengths. This doesn't work because the CLI args can reset
and add families back to a lesser length. This caused an integer
overflow.
We can fix this by not being clever and introducing the overwrite logic
directly into the config type. I unit tested that.
Fixes#7481
We unfortunately don't have a great way to unit test this since our
logic relies on argv and I'm too lazy to extract it out right now.
The core issue is that we previously detected if font-families changed
by comparing lengths. This doesn't work because the CLI args can reset
and add families back to a lesser length. This caused an integer
overflow.
We can fix this by not being clever and introducing the overwrite logic
directly into the config type. I unit tested that.
See commit messages for details.
If some of the commits in this PR have problems with them I'm perfectly
fine with the others being cherry-picked out while the problems are
addressed.
The biggest/broadest reaching changes in this PR come from converting a
lot of code to use decl literals where possible, so there are a lot of
files where only a handful of lines are modified very slightly.
This commit changes a LOT of areas of the code to use decl literals
instead of redundantly referring to the type.
These changes were mostly driven by some regex searches and then manual
adjustment on a case-by-case basis.
I almost certainly missed quite a few places where decl literals could
be used, but this is a good first step in converting things, and other
instances can be addressed when they're discovered.
I tested GLFW+Metal and building the framework on macOS and tested a GTK
build on Linux, so I'm 99% sure I didn't introduce any syntax errors or
other problems with this. (fingers crossed)
Fixes#7392
Docs:
> Whether to clear selected text when typing. This defaults to `true`.
> This is typical behavior for most terminal emulators as well as
> text input fields. If you set this to `false`, then the selected text
> will not be cleared when typing.
>
> "Typing" is specifically defined as any non-modifier (shift, control,
> alt, etc.) keypress that produces data to be sent to the application
> running within the terminal (e.g. the shell). Additionally, selection
> is cleared when any preedit or composition state is started (e.g.
> when typing languages such as Japanese).
>
> If this is `false`, then the selection can still be manually
> cleared by clicking once or by pressing `escape`.
Recently when answering [a Discussion], I was reminded of when Tristan
once linked the GTK CSS documentation and said “Perhaps good to add this
to the docs of the GTK custom CSS config option”, so I decided to do
that now. I also added a few random things that I found helpful when
attempting to modify Ghostty's CSS; this information was mostly stolen
from random people on Discord or accidentally discovered.
I really do not care if this is merged or not, nor do I care if the
strings are changed considerably[^1], so I am going straight for a Pull
Request without bothering to open a Discussion, get that converted to an
Issue after a few years, then finally remember to open a Pull Request.
I only tested what this looks like in `ghostty +show-config --default
--docs`, the manpage and the HTML output; I notably did not try seeing
how it renders on the website. The links have to be in angle brackets
for the HTML output to have it rendered as URLs, but it looks odd
everywhere else; manpages have them with mathematical angle brackets,
⟨like this⟩. I also refrained from using an em (—) or en (–) dash
instead of a normal dash (-) as that does not seem to be common in the
rest of the documentation.
[a Discussion]: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/7189
[^1]: I didn't see any guidelines or standards for these strings, so
presumably these would be contested as I didn't know what to adhere to
when writing them.
It may not be immediately obvious how to style Ghostty despite knowing
of the existence of that configuration option; one who is more
accustomed to web development would likely be very reliant on their
browser's inspector for modifying and debugging the style of their
application. GTK CSS also differs in some important ways from the CSS
found in browsers, and hence linking to the GTK CSS documentation would
save time for anyone new to styling GTK applications.
Fixes#7099
This adds basic bell features to macOS to conceptually match the GTK
implementation. When a bell is triggered, macOS will do the following:
1. Bounce the dock icon once, if the app isn't already in focus.
2. Add a bell emoji (🔔) to the title of the surface that triggered
the bell. This emoji will be removed after the surface is focused
or a keyboard event if the surface is already focused. This
behavior matches iTerm2.
This doesn't add an icon badge because macOS's dockTitle.badgeLabel API
wasn't doing anything for me and I wasn't able to fully figure out
why...
This PR implements a more lightweight alternative to #5326 that contains
features that I personally think Just Make Sense for the bell.
No configs, no GStreamer stuff, just sane defaults to get us started.
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.
This was a hack, and is no longer required since #6877. Users can
explicitly override the GTK GSK renderer by setting the standard GTK env
var `GSK_RENDERER`.
Fixes#2384 on GTK
I'm not exactly sure how to deal with centered quick terminals so I opted
to make them similar to either top/bottom or left/right quick terminals
based on the monitor's orientation (portrait/landscape). This may not be
the right approach, so I'd like to hear more thoughts about this.