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Comment by oDot

15 hours ago

I'm the author of Trolley[0] (Electron for TUIs).

It was so easy to get the terminal functionality going with `libghostty`. Most time was spent building the functionality around it.

Thanks for making it.

[0]: https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

I'm not quite understanding your project. What is the use case? Is this so I can package up an existing terminal app as a dedicated desktop app?

If so that actually sounds really cool. I'd like a dedicated lazygit app in my tray at all times.

  • Yes, that's it. It came about after writing a small TUI for a friend to back up their Vimeo library. They liked the simplicity and speed but not having to use the shell. Didn't want to install Ghostty either.

    So here we are