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# My lil' Ghostty terminal config
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/my-lil-ghosty-terminal-config-2/
- Published: 2025-01-03T20:00:03.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-03T22:04:04.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

I [wrote](https://birchtree.me/blog/ghostty-is-the-hot-new-terminal-and-its-out-now/) about [Ghostty](https://ghostty.org/?ref=birchtree.me) last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically).

I'm not a power user by any means, as I typically use my terminal to do things like ssh into my server to install updates, to run a few other scripts on servers, and that's about it. So I don't need a crazy customized command line or anything, but if I'm going to use a terminal, I want it to be nice. Below are the minimal changes I've made to Ghostty's config file (get to it with `Command + ,` in the app) to make it more my own.

> theme=catppuccin-latte  
> window-height=30  
> window-width=110  
>  
> title="Oh, hello"  
> window-title-font-family="MonoLisa Variable"  
>  
> font-family="MonoLisa Variable"  
> font-size=14  
> font-feature=-liga  
> font-thicken=true

That's it, that's the entire config! Everything you can do is [documented in the official docs](https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference?ref=birchtree.me), but if you're curious what the above things do in my config…

- `theme` sets the theme. A ton of themes are built into the app, and you can type `ghostty +list-themes` to see a list of them all. Once you find one you like, just use its name in the theme value
- `window-height` sets the height of the window. This is based on "cells" which is basically how high each character is. My 30 value means the window is 30 lines of text high.
- `window-width` does the same but for width. My window is 110 characters wide.
- `title` sets the window title to whatever you want. I suspect more serious terminal fiends won't want this since there can be useful data in that in some cases, but I don't personally ever use it.
- `window-title-font-family` sets the font you want to use for the menu text.
- `font-family` sets the font for the command line. I love [MonoLisa](https://www.monolisa.dev/?ref=birchtree.me), but there are a million fonts that will work just great (or just use the default).
- `font-size` sets the font size (obvs). I like my terminal window to be a bit larger than the default.
- `font-feature` lets you enable or disable specific features of font rendering. I've set `-liga` which turns off custom ligatures since I find them more confusing than beautiful.
- `font-thicken` thickens your terminal font. Probably not needed most of the time, but MonoLisa's variable font is quite thin the default way Ghostty renders it, so this feature just puts a bit more meat on those bones.

I'm also using [Oh My Zsh](https://ohmyz.sh/?ref=birchtree.me), [Powerlevel10k](https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k?ref=birchtree.me), and a few other little plugins that make my terminal experience a bit better. Again, I'm not a high-level terminal user by any means, but if you're curious about what I have set up there, let me know and I can dive into those as well.