framebuffer support

[terminaldweller]

Does ghostty support framebuffer? or if not, is there a chance that it will, in the future?

[rhodes-b]

What does "framebuffer" mean

[terminaldweller]

here's the official docs for the frame buffer.
Supporting framebuffer as a "display backend" would mean that it could run without X or Wayland straight from the tty.

[rhodes-b]

Ghostty uses GTK as its toolkit on linux. It doesnt do alot of the lower level initialization like talking directly to the framebuffer device so i see it as very unlikely that it would ever be supported

From what i see online GTK does not support the framebuffer device so not possible

[terminaldweller]

ok. thanks for the response.

[jcollie]

It's unlikely that any new Linux frontends will be added to the main Ghostty source. A third party could certainly attempt making an out-of-tree frontend that used the framebuffer and libghostty. Note that Ghostty requires a GPU to render the terminal screen so I don't know how that would work with the framebuffer.

[terminaldweller]

ok. noted.