This introduces the "quick" terminal. The quick terminal is a singleton terminal instance that can be summoned with a keybinding. The quick terminal animates in from the top, left, bottom, or right of the screen. When the terminal loses focus, it disappears until the key binding is pressed again. The terminal maintains its state so that when it appears you can pick up directly where you left off.

Usage

You can access the quick terminal through the menu View -> Quick Terminal or through the toggle_quick_terminal binding. The latter is more useful (and makes it actually quick). The binding is unbound by default.

By leveraging the recently merged global key binds (#2299), you can create a global keybind that can work even when Ghostty is unfocused. For example keybind = global:grave_accent=toggle_quick_terminal.

Limitations

• No tabs in the quick terminal (fixable with a custom tab bar)
• No fullscreen in the quick terminal (fixable, may do it before merge unsure yet)
• No titlebar so you can't see the title (fixable with a custom title bar)
• No window save state or restore on app restart (fixable but I'm not sure it makes sense for this feature yet)

Notably, splits do work.

Demo

TODO

• Bugs with multiple monitors
• Fullscreen (maybe)