Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications
Shares rank 22 of 40 terminal emulators by recommenders
Ghostty-based terminal adding vertical tabs and per-pane notifications, though critics report buggy tab switching and copy-selection problems.
Ghostty-based terminal adding vertical tabs and per-pane notifications, though critics report buggy tab switching and copy-selection problems.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 67%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Vertical tabs and pane notifications
“The notification-per-pane with blue ring indicator is exactly right.”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications” “Vertical tabs for a terminal emulator seems killer”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications” Praised as slick and awesome
“This is pretty slick, man. The only thing is that the Ctrl-Cmd-] is too hard to press”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications” “Awesome work, keen to try it out tomorrow”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Copy and selection problems
“you never really know what it's going to do on mouseup”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications” “It doesn't seem to have copy-paste support that I have in my Ghostty”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications” “weird copy/selection issues”
Comment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable” Missing UX features, buggy tabs
“both your terminal and waveterm are missing an important UX feature”
Comment from 22 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications” “it's a buggy mess. Can't switch top tabs, can't close tabs.”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications”
Other terminal emulators people recommend
The four most recommended other terminal emulators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghostty | 401 | 158 | 72% | 12 | 3 mo22 owners | Approved |
| Termux | 188 | 31 | 86% | 12 | 1 yr6 owners | Approved |
| iTerm2 | 95 | 69 | 58% | 12 | 10 yrs4 owners | — |
| Warp terminal | 84 | 86 | 49% | 11 | 1 yr5 owners | — |
| Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notificationsThis page | 10 | 5 | 67% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“weird copy/selection issues”
“both your terminal and waveterm are missing an important UX feature”
“Its underwhelming to start it up and not see the "boxes"”
“Vertical tabs for a terminal emulator seems killer”
“it's a buggy mess. Can't switch top tabs, can't close tabs.”
“18 (!) releases in two days. This is some really fast coding.”
“Awesome work, keen to try it out tomorrow”
“The notification-per-pane with blue ring indicator is exactly right.”
“It doesn't seem to have copy-paste support that I have in my Ghostty”
“This is pretty slick, man. The only thing is that the Ctrl-Cmd-] is too hard to press”
“you never really know what it's going to do on mouseup”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.