This deletes the GLFW apprt from the Ghostty codebase.
The GLFW apprt was the original apprt used by Ghostty (well, before
Ghostty even had the concept of an "apprt" -- it was all just a single
application then). It let me iterate on the core terminal features,
rendering, etc. without bothering about the UI. It was a good way to get
started. But it has long since outlived its usefulness.
We've had a stable GTK apprt for Linux (and Windows via WSL) and a
native macOS app via libghostty for awhile now. The GLFW apprt only
remained within the tree for a few reasons:
1. Primarily, it provided a faster feedback loop on macOS because
building the macOS app historically required us to hop out of the
zig build system and into Xcode, which is slow and cumbersome.
2. It was a convenient way to narrow whether a bug was in the
core Ghostty codebase or in the apprt itself. If a bug was in both
the glfw and macOS app then it was likely in the core.
3. It provided us a way on macOS to test OpenGL.
All of these reasons are no longer valid. Respectively:
1. Our Zig build scripts now execute the `xcodebuild` CLI directly and
can open the resulting app, stream logs, etc. This is the same
experience we have on Linux. (Xcode has always been a dependency of
building on macOS in general, so this is not cumbersome.)
2. We have a healthy group of maintainers, many of which have access
to both macOS and Linux, so we can quickly narrow down bugs
regardless of the apprt.
3. Our OpenGL renderer hasn't been compatible with macOS for some time
now, so this is no longer a useful feature.
At this point, the GLFW apprt is just a burden. It adds complexity
across the board, and some people try to run Ghostty with it in the real
world and get confused when it doesn't work (it's always been lacking in
features and buggy compared to the other apprts).
So, it's time to say goodbye. Its bittersweet because it is a big part
of Ghostty's history, but we've grown up now and it's time to move on.
Thank you, goodbye.
(NOTE: If you are a user of the GLFW apprt, then please fork the project
prior to this commit or start a new project based on it. We've warned
against using it for a very, very long time now.)
We were using the Rectangle target for simpler addressing, since that
allows for pixel coordinates instead of normalized coordinates, but
there are downsides to rectangle textures, including not supporting
compressed texture formats, and we do probably want to use compressed
formats in the future, so I'm making this change now.
This was applied to the wrong thing by accident, making the custom
shader ping-pong textures compressed, which breaks custom shaders
because compressed texture formats are not color renderable.
Additionally, I've not switched the compressed format to the correct
texture options, because I tried that and it turns out that the default
compression applied by drivers can't be trusted to be good quality and
generally speaking looks terrible. In the future we can explore doing
the compression ourselves CPU-side with something like b7enc_rdo.
BPTC is required to be available OpenGL >= 4.2 and our minimum is 4.3 so
this is safe in terms of support. I tested briefly in a VM and didn't
encounter any problems so this should just be a complete win.
(Note: texture data is already automatically compressed on Metal)
Adds support for background images via the `background-image` config.
Resolves#3645, supersedes PRs #4226 and #5233.
See docs of added config keys for usage details.
Also changes color atlas to always use an sRGB internal format so that
the texture reads automatically linearize the colors.
Renames the misleading `rgba` atlas format to `bgra`, since both
FreeType and CoreText are set up to draw color glyphs in bgra.
The code in metal/image.zig and opengl/image.zig was virtually identical
save for the texture options, so I've moved that to the GraphicsAPI and
unified them in to renderer/image.zig
This commit is very large, representing about a month of work with many
interdependent changes that don't separate cleanly in to atomic commits.
The main change here is unifying the renderer logic to a single generic
renderer, implemented on top of an abstraction layer over OpenGL/Metal.
I'll write a more complete summary of the changes in the description of
the PR.
This problem was introduced by f091a69 (PR #6675).
I've gone ahead and overhauled the placement positioning logic as well;
it was doing a lot of expensive calls before, I've significantly reduced
that.
Clipping partially off-screen images is now handled entirely by the
renderer, rather than while preparing the placement, and as such the
grid position passed to the image shader is now signed.
Fixes#2446
Two separate issues:
1. Ensure that our screen size matches the viewport size when
drawFrame is called. By the time drawFrame is called, GTK will have
updated the OpenGL context, but our deferred screen size may still
be incorrect since we wait for the pty to update the screen size.
2. Do not clear our cells buffer when the screen size changes, instead
changing to a mechanism that only clears the buffers when we have
over 50% wasted space.
Co-authored-by: Andrew de los Reyes <adlr@rivosinc.com>
When adding a glyph, we didn't pass the expected width to the glyph
renderer. This can be helpful when scaling emoji, as will happen in the
next commit.
NEEDS REVIEW
continuation of #5037resolves#4729
renders all shaders to the default buffer and then copies it to the
designated custom shader texture.
this is a draft pr because:
- it introduces a new shader "pipeline" which doesnt fit in with how the
system was designed to work (which is only rendering to the fbo)
- im not sure if this is the best way to achieve shaders being able to
sample their output while also drawing to the screen. the cusom fbo
(previous implementation) was useful in that it modularized the custom
shader stage in rendering
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Co-authored-by: Mitchell Hashimoto <m@mitchellh.com>
This significantly improves the robustness of the renderers since it
prevents synchronization issues from causing memory corruption due to
out of bounds read/writes while building the cells.
TODO: when viewport is narrower than renderer grid size, fill blank
margin with bg color- currently appears as black, this only affects
DECCOLM right now, and possibly could create single-frame artefacts
during poorly managed resizes, but it's not ideal regardless.
This refactor enables two very significant improvements to our font
handling, which I will be implementing next:
1. Automatically adjust size of fallback faces to better align with the
primary face, a la CSS
[`font-size-adjust`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-size-adjust).
[^1]
2. Move glyph resizing/positioning out of GPU-land and in to
`renderGlyph` and apply alignment/resizing rules from the nerd fonts
patcher[^2] to the glyphs at rasterization time, so that we can ensure
exact cell fits and swap out our embedded JB Mono with an unpatched
version with a separate dedicated symbols-only nerd font.
In addition to being necessary prep work for those two changes, this PR
is also a minor but real stand-alone improvement. By only computing the
cell metrics for our primary font, we avoid a *lot* of wasted work when
loading fallback fonts, and also avoid that being a source of load
errors, which we don't yet handle gracefully[^3].
To validate this PR I've run the full set of font backend tests locally
on my Mac with no failures, and did a sanity check of running Ghostty
with both renderers and with CoreText and FreeType font backends and
then `cat`ing a file that requires fallback fonts to render, and
everything looks correct.
[^1]: #3029
[^2]: The alignment and resizing rules for the nerd font symbols are
defined in the patcher
[here](6d0b8ba05a/font-patcher (L866-L1151))
[^3]: #2991
This is achieved by rendering to an alpha-only context rather than a
normal single-channel context, and adjusting the brightness at which
CoreText thinks it's drawing the glyph, which affects how it applies
font smoothing (which is what `font-thicken` enables).
This is achieved by rendering to an alpha-only context rather than a
normal single-channel context, and adjusting the brightness at which
coretext thinks it's drawing the glyph, which affects how it applies
font smoothing (which is what `font-thicken` enables).
The renderer must track if the foreground, background, and cursor colors
are explicitly set by an OSC so that changes are not overridden when the
config file is reloaded.
Fixes: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/2795
The renderer must track if the foreground, background, and cursor colors
are explicitly set by an OSC so that changes are not overridden when the
config file is reloaded.
Fixes#2332
Two bugs fixed to fix this behavior:
1. Our destination height didn't account for the top-left being
offscreen.
2. We were using the wrong height for the source rectangle. When a rows
param (r=) is specified, the image height and destination height are
at different scales. We were using the viewport scale for the offset
but it should be the image scale.
Fixes#2921
Our z-index handling was pretty much completely broken, hence I can't
think of a better initial commit message. We were splitting the
placements at the wrong points and just generally putting images in the
wrong z-index. I'm shocked this didn't come up earlier.
This is more correct: a pagelist is a linked list of nodes, not pages.
The nodes themselves contain pages but we were previously calling the
nodes "pages" which was confusing, especially as I plan some future
changes to the way pages are stored.
Significant rework that also removes a lot of unnecessarily duplicated
work while rebuilding cells in both renderers. Fixes multiple issues
with decorations and bg colors on wide chars and ligatures, while
reducing the amount of special case handling required.
Metal needed to be changed to account for wide chars having decorations
on the right half and OpenGL needed to account for multiple glyphs being
under the cursor at once (decorations and combining marks) as well as
wide chars.
This makes sure that underline styles are consistent and not stretched,
and avoids rendering overlapping text decorations or extraneous
background cells for the right halves of wide chars.
