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Re:Kitty 0.50 by przmk on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:41AM (#50364247)
When I use the terminal, I spawn and kill a lot of instances for quick tasks. Having a longer startup times is definitely noticeable.
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Re:Kitty 0.50 by sgarland on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:55AM (#50364890)
tmux?
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Re:Kitty 0.50 by mkingston on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:29AM (#50365252)
In case you're not aware, there exists:

    ghostty +new-window
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Re:Kitty 0.50 by tasuki on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:52AM (#50365525)
> I spawn and kill a lot of instances for quick tasks.

Why? Do you open a new browser window when you want to visit a website?

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Re:Kitty 0.50 by xigoi on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:48AM (#50366288)
I do whenever I want two websites displayed next to each other or when I want to have them in separate workspaces, which is pretty often.
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Re:Kitty 0.50 by porridgeraisin on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:44AM (#50368202)
Yes actually. Ctrl+Alt+b opens a new browser window quickly and I go somewhere. I have it faster in muscle memory than switching to browser and ctrl+t and then opening whatever.
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Re:Kitty 0.50 by idoubtit on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:12AM (#50365800)
My login session starts a background ghostty instance, then each new window is almost instant when I press my i3 shortcut.

This process is documented with systemd, but it's not a requirement, a plain xsessionrc could work similarly: https://ghostty.org/docs/linux/systemd

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