I got beta access to Ghostty and set it up on my MacOS (Sonoma) laptop. The terminal is nice out of the box. It has tab support and splits. The default color theme is pleasing.

tabs_and_splits

I still needed to adjust the configuration to make some changes to match my taste.

The configuration file is located in ~/.config/ghostty/config, there is no UI based preference dialog (planned for the future).

This is my config:

font-size = 17
font-family = Monaco
macos-option-as-alt = true  # Enables alt+f/alt+b keys to work as expected

I didn’t change the default color theme but it does have plenty to choose from:

ghostty +list-themes

themes

I got early access because I wanted to check if my CLI tools work well in the new terminal. They work very well.

litecli

I plan on using this as my daily driver.