Godotty

A full-featured yet light-weight terminal emulator for the Godot Engine, powered by libghostty.

Features

• Full terminal emulation powered by ghostty's VT engine (libghostty-vt)
• Terminals anywhere in the editor: movable docks, a tabbed/toggleable bottom panel, and as a main screen
• Selection, clipboard copy / paste (Ctrl+Shift+C / V, Cmd+C / V on macOS), drag to reorder tabs
• Tab titles follow the running program, shells open as login shells in your project root
• Terminal colors are auto-generated from your editor theme
• JetBrains Mono Nerd Fonts, ligatures, and emojis built in, no setup
• A Terminal node for use inside your own editor tools
• Written in Rust as a self-contained GDExtension

Install

Requires Godot 4.7+ on Linux, macOS, or Windows 10+.

• Asset Library: search for "Godotty" in the editor's AssetLib tab and install it.
• Manual: grab the zip from the releases page and extract it into your project root.

Note

On macOS, if Gatekeeper blocks the library, clear the quarantine flag: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine addons/godotty.

Quick Start

• Ctrl+Shift+P and type "terminal" to create one in a dock, the bottom panel, or the main screen.
• Ctrl+` toggles the terminal panel in the bottom panel.
• Drag docks anywhere, or float them as windows.
• Settings live in Editor Settings under godotty.

Exports

Godotty never ships in exported games by default. You can silence the harmless startup logs about the missing extension by adding addons/godotty/* to your export preset's exclude filter. To ship the Terminal node in your game, remove the .editor tags in godotty.gdextension.

Why?

• I wanted to be able to use all my terminal tools from inside Godot.
• I wanted to build something that feels native to the editor.
• I wanted to use libghostty.

Building from source

Requirements: Rust (stable), Zig 0.15.2, or devenv with the included configuration.

cargo build --release   # produces target/release/libgodotty.so
package                 # devenv script: assembles dist/godotty-v*.zip

Roadmap

• Kitty image protocol support, still need to hook it up.

Credits

• Godot for the engine
• ghostty for libghostty-vt
• libghostty-rs for the Rust bindings
• JetBrains Mono for the bundled fonts

License

MIT, Bundled fonts are OFL-1.1, see addons/godotty/FONTS.md.