What is native UI in this context? My terminal emulator is also always basically a full-screen black textarea with white letters. No window borders, no tabs, no buttons, no menus, nothing else. Is there anything native UI would give me in this case (and what is a native UI, I can't find it defined anywhere)?

This gets brought up a lot, so I wrote about it here https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/

> This also means that native features like pressing Shift+⌘+\ open the tab overview, just as in other applications.

Ah, so this is a macos thing and not just Safari. Can anyone help me select a tab using a keyboard? I use the shortcut, type in the search box and...have to use the mouse :(

I don’t recall where, and don’t have my laptop handy, but there is a macOS system option to enable tabbing through all controls (not just inputs), that _should_ do it

> The big picture of "native" is that Ghostty is designed to look, feel, and behave like you expect an application to behave in your desktop environment.

> On macOS, the GUI is written in Swift and uses AppKit and SwiftUI.

(https://ghostty.org/docs/about#native)

I'm using Linux with Xfce, but it seems to be locked into a Gnome-like look and feel, with header bars and CSDs that can't be disabled in favor of standard title bars and menus, so it's actually very inconsistent with the rest of my desktop environment.

I was looking into this recently. If you add this to the config, it'll blend in better with XFCE.

  window-theme = system
  gtk-titlebar = false
  gtk-wide-tabs = false
  gtk-adwaita = false

Dunno if anyone will see this comment, but if they do, here is the solution :D

These settings worked, thanks!

After testing Ghostty out for a while, though, I've realized that input lag is higher than xfce4-terminal, font rendering is blurrier with equivalent settings, the UI is still less consistent with my desktop, and it has three to four times the memory footprint on top of all that. Since xfce4-terminal is already using native GTK, so there's nothing gained on that front.

Disabling the UI cruft just turns it into a less performant version of Xterm, so unfortunately, this is going to be an uninstall for me.

Thanks, ghostty looked really off in KDE by default.