• Ghostty terminal emulator is adding scrollbar support, answering one of the most-requested features by users of the Zig-based tool since its public launch in 2024. • Ghostty’s users have hitherto had to use mouse wheel momentum or rely on keyboard shortcuts to skips through backscroll. • No major hassle, granted. • But scrollbars do provide a visual indicator that’s handy when staring at hundreds of lines of code. • As one user put in a community discussion thread: a scrollbar isn’t needed for faster scrolling (although it helps), but to make it easier to know where you are, noting “there’s no way to have a reference of where the scroll position is on long outputs or history”. • Thankfully, scrollbar support is coming in Ghostty 1.3.0, and is already available to enable in development builds on Linux and macOS.

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  • Ghostty, the Zig‑based terminal emulator launched in 2024, has added scrollbar support in its upcoming 1.3.0 release, responding to a long‑standing user request. The feature, which closes bug #111, is already available in development builds for Linux and macOS; users can enable it by adding scrollbar = system to the config file and reloading the app. Scrollbars provide a visual cue for navigating long outputs, complementing existing scrolling methods. The update also introduces a session‑search command, tab‑renaming on Linux, and read‑only tab indicators. Ghostty remains a native, cross‑platform terminal, with its Linux build using GTK4 and macOS using Swift, and continues under a non‑profit funding model.

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