Devs say performance is improved hugely with this update. Notably, Ghostty 1.4.0 now compresses off-screen scrollback when the terminal is idle. This lowers the amount of physical RAM used by text-heavy histories by up to 90%.<\/p>\n Content is decompressed if you scroll back or you make use of the text search feature that was added in the Ghostty 1.3.0<\/a> update earlier this year.<\/p>\n On Linux, Ghostty\u2019s GTK app renders text sharply at fractional display scales such as 125% and 150%, which should resolve oft-mentioned issues with blurry text.<\/p>\n The update also replaces GtkGLArea with an EGL rendering pipeline that runs on a separate thread and passes frames to GTK using DMA-BUFs. This requires a system EGL library; if a GPU can\u2019t export DMA-BUFs, slower CPU-based copying is used.<\/p>\n And terminal splits in the GTK build can be rearranged using drag. When a tab has two or more splits, each split has a drag handle that can be grabbed and the split dragged and dropped onto another split.<\/p>\n Other changes include:<\/p>\n Linux changes of note:<\/p>\n Desktop notifications dismiss if the terminal is focused or closed<\/p>\n Noto emoji font update so newer ZWJ sequences render as one glyph<\/p>\n Dolphin\u2019s \u2018Open Ghostty Here\u2019 opens new window in running instance<\/p>\n Split resizing no longer flickers and can no longer be made too small<\/p>\n Mouse cursor keeps its text shape while selecting text<\/p>\n Command palette uses terminal colours if\u00a0window-theme = ghostty<\/p>\n URLs now open through the XDG desktop portal<\/p>\n And configuration options on GTK builds include gtk-horizontal-tab-scroll, which can be set to false to disable two-finger scrolling from changing tabs, and gtk-tabs-inverted, to move the close button to the start of each tab.<\/p>\n Install Ghostty 1.4.0<\/p>\n Ubuntu 26.10 includes Ghostty in the repos<\/a>, putting it an apt install ghostty away. But, that won\u2019t get you the newest version. For the changes mentioned above, you\u2019ll need to use an alternative method.<\/p>\n Plenty are available.<\/p>\n You can install Ghostty on Ubuntu using an unofficial community-maintained\u00a0Ghostty DEB<\/a>\u00a0(and that has its own Ghostty PPA<\/a> for easy updates). There\u2019s also a Ghostty AppImage<\/a>, and an unofficial Snap<\/a>.<\/p>\n On macOS, Ghostty provides official binaries (recommended; supports in-app updating), and it\u2019s also\u00a0available via Homebrew<\/a>\u00a0and other CLI package managers.<\/p>\n Ghostty drops support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS <\/p>\n As Ghostty 1.4.0 requires\u00a0GTK 4.18\u00a0and\u00a0libadwaita 1.7, per the terminal\u2019s\u00a0GTK\/Adwaita version policy<\/a>, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS no longer meets the requirements. This means a DEB version of Ghostty (e.g. from the PPA above) can no longer be installed.<\/p>\n![\"Kitty](\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ghostty--840x441.avif\")
<\/a>Kitty protocol support is complete<\/p>\n![\"Dragging](\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/splitdrag-840x441.avif\")
<\/a>Dragging a terminal split, with drop zone highlighted<\/p>\n