
Kwi Is a New KDE Terminal Emulator Built on Ghostty Technology
KDE developer unveils Kwi, a new terminal emulator using Ghostty technology, GPU acceleration, and a modern Kirigami interface.

KDE developer unveils Kwi, a new terminal emulator using Ghostty technology, GPU acceleration, and a modern Kirigami interface.
Meet Kwi, a new Ghostty-based GPU-accelerated terminal emulator app for the KDE Plasma desktop environment that promises up to 35x faster performance, a more modern UI, and better protocol support.

A major new release of Ghostty, the open-source terminal emulator, has been released. Ghostty 1.4.0 brings a varied set of changes after 7 months of

The Ubuntu 24.04 support drop is thanks to the native builds requiring some newer dependencies. Anyhow, there’s more to this Ghostty release than that.

Ghostty 1.4 compresses its scrollback and saves up to 90 percent memory. On Linux, text looks sharper, and you can now move splits with the mouse.

Ghostty 1.4 delivers faster terminal processing, up to 90% lower scrollback memory usage, and major Linux rendering improvements.
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