{"id":4160,"date":"2026-10-30T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/ghostty-1-4-arrives-with-major-improvements-for-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:00:51","slug":"ghostty-1-4-arrives-with-major-improvements-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/ghostty-1-4-arrives-with-major-improvements-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostty 1.4 Arrives with Major Improvements for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghostty 1.4.0 is a major update to the open-source terminal emulator, arriving after seven months of development. It adds performance improvements across Linux and macOS, a standalone SSH wrapper, more accurate terminal emulation, and new ways to manage terminal splits.<\/p>\n<p>One of the headline additions is complete support for the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/sw.kovidgoyal.net\/kitty\/protocol-extensions\/\">Kitty graphics protocol<\/a>, including animation and relative image placement. Ghostty is the first terminal other than Kitty to support the full protocol. The release also implements the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/sw.kovidgoyal.net\/kitty\/clipboard\/\">Kitty clipboard protocol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Lower memory use and sharper text on Linux<\/h3>\n<p>When the terminal is idle, Ghostty 1.4 compresses off-screen scrollback. This can cut the physical memory used by text-heavy terminal histories by up to 90%. Content is decompressed when you scroll back or use the text-search feature introduced in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/03\/ghostty-1-3-terminal-brings-big-new-features\">Ghostty 1.3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Linux GTK app also renders text more sharply at fractional display scales, including 125% and 150%. Its rendering system has been updated to use an EGL pipeline on a separate thread, passing frames to GTK with DMA-BUFs. Systems whose GPUs cannot export DMA-BUFs fall back to slower CPU-based copying.<\/p>\n<p>GTK users can now rearrange terminal splits by dragging them. Each split in a tab with multiple panes has a handle that can be dragged onto another split.<\/p>\n<p>Other Linux improvements include notifications that dismiss when the terminal is focused or closed, updated Noto emoji support, and fixes for split resizing and mouse-cursor behaviour. Dolphin\u2019s \u201cOpen Ghostty Here\u201d action now opens a window in an existing Ghostty instance, and URLs are opened through the XDG desktop portal. New GTK settings let users disable tab switching with two-finger horizontal scrolling or move tab close buttons to the beginning of each tab.<\/p>\n<h3>Installing Ghostty 1.4.0<\/h3>\n<p>Ghostty is available in the Ubuntu repositories, but that version may not include this release. Ubuntu users can get Ghostty through a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkasberg\/ghostty-ubuntu\/releases\/latest\">community-maintained DEB package<\/a>, its associated <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~mkasberg\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ghostty-ubuntu\">PPA<\/a>, an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pkgforge-dev\/ghostty-appimage\">AppImage<\/a>, or an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/snapcraft.io\/ghostty\">unofficial Snap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Official macOS binaries are available from Ghostty and support in-app updates. The app is also offered through <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/formulae.brew.sh\/cask\/ghostty\">Homebrew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ghostty 1.4 requires GTK 4.18 and libadwaita 1.7, so Ubuntu 24.04 LTS no longer meets the project\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ghostty.org\/docs\/linux\/#supported-gtkadwaita-versions\">GTK and Adwaita requirements<\/a>. As a result, Ghostty DEB packages can no longer be installed on that release.<\/p>\n<p>The <code>libghostty<\/code> terminal-emulation library is also set to power terminals in future versions of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.jetbrains.com\/platform\/2026\/10\/jetbrains-terminal-now-uses-ghostty\/\">JetBrains IDEs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghostty 1.4.0 is a major update to the open-source terminal emulator, arriving after seven months of development. 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