{"id":215931,"date":"2026-02-20T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/ghostty-1-3-wil-bring-adds-scrollbar-support\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:50:07","slug":"ghostty-1-3-wil-bring-adds-scrollbar-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/ghostty-1-3-wil-bring-adds-scrollbar-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostty 1.3 wil bring Adds Scrollbar Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/02\/ghostty-linux-scrollbars-coming\">Ghostty 1.3 wil bring Adds Scrollbar Support<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/02\/ghostty-linux-scrollbars-coming\">https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/02\/ghostty-linux-scrollbars-coming<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 23:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.omgubuntu.co.uk\">www.omgubuntu.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghostty\u2019s 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\u2019s handy when staring at hundreds of lines of code. <\/p>\n<p>As one user put in a community discussion thread: a scrollbar isn\u2019t needed for faster scrolling (although it helps), but to make it easier to know where you are, noting \u201cthere\u2019s no way to have a reference of where the scroll position is on long outputs or history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, scrollbar support is coming in Ghostty 1.3.0, and is already available to enable in development builds on Linux and macOS. The feature closes bug #111 \u2013 opened in 2023, back when Ghostty was in its pre-release hype-garnering phase. <\/p>\n<p>Ghostty scrollbar on show in development build on Ubuntu<\/p>\n<p>While you can install Ghostty on Ubuntu using DEBs, those are for stable releases only. To try scrollbar support sooner, you\u2019ll need to compile the terminal from source (Hard? No. Effort? Maybe), or use an unofficial Ghostty \u2018nightly\u2019 AppImage. <\/p>\n<p>Then, to enable scrollbars, add the following to your Ghostty\u00a0config\u00a0file: <\/p>\n<p>scrollbar = system<\/p>\n<p>Two values are supported: \u2018system\u2019 and \u2018never\u2019. System means your DE decides when a scrollbar is shown. As Ubuntu uses overlay scrollbars by default, you\u2019ll only see a bar during scroll actions \u2013 you can\u00a0always show scrollbars in Ubuntu\u00a0if you prefer.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll need to reload your Ghostty config (use the menu option) or quit and restart the app for the change to apply. <\/p>\n<p>Scrollbars are among various new features in Ghostty 1.3.0, alongside a \u2018jump to terminal\u2019 session search in the command palette, the ability to rename terminal tabs on Linux and show a read-only indicator&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/02\/ghostty-linux-scrollbars-coming\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghostty 1.3 wil bring Adds Scrollbar Support https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/02\/ghostty-linux-scrollbars-coming Publish Date: 2026-02-20 23:35:00 Source Domain: www.omgubuntu.co.uk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ghostty-logo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,79],"class_list":["post-215931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215933,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215931\/revisions\/215933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}