Configure Quick Terminal Size in Ghostty

I’m a very heavy quick (dropdown) terminal user, so after adopting Ghostty one of the points of frustration for me was that I could not specify a default size for my quick terminal. Instead I had to adjust the size every time I started Ghostty.

Fortunately, the problem recently got solved with the introduction of the quick-terminal-size config option in Ghostty 1.2. Its behavior is linked to that of quick-terminal-position (top by default). You can configure the default size for both the primary axis (e.g. height) and the secondary axis (e.g. width) in either a percentage or pixels. I like my dropdown terminal to be relatively big, so I just do the following:

quick-terminal-size = 60%

But, you can do a lot more, as indicated by the docs. If you specify two values, then the second value is the secondary axis. The examples below illustrate a few things you can do:

# Percentage, primary axis only
quick-terminal-size = 25%

# Pixels work too, primary axis only
quick-terminal-size = 600px

# Two values specify primary and secondary axis
quick-terminal-size = 25%,75%

# You can also mix units
quick-terminal-size = 300px,80%

As mentioned earlier, the primary axis is defined by the quick-terminal-position configuration. For the top and bottom values, the primary axis is the height. For the left and right values, the primary axis is the width. For center, it depends on your monitor orientation: it is height for landscape and width for portrait.

You’ve got many options, but I doubt many people will need those. That’s all I have for you today. Keep hacking!