
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

Das Update für den Terminal-Emulator Ghostty senkt den RAM-Verbrauch, beschleunigt den Parser und bringt einen praktischen Wrapper für SSH-Verbindungen mit.

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 komprimiert den Verlauf und spart bis zu 90 Prozent Speicher. Unter Linux rendert das Terminal neu, Splits verschiebt ihr jetzt per Maus.

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