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Show HN: Boo – Screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty

65 pointsby kylecarbsyesterday at 8:52 PM22 commentsview on HN

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stereoyesterday at 9:50 PM

You've obviously written this because screen wasn't doing the right thing, but your readme only explains that it's a "young project, not a drop-in GNU screen replacement". What are its advantages over screen or tmux?

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lavaman131today at 5:03 AM

This is super cool. I've been a heavy tmux user for a long time and using it more with my coding agent sessions and prefer ghostty. What was the biggest challenge when it came to building a multiplexer directly on top of libghostty that you ran into?

ac29today at 1:03 AM

Been using zmx for a few months and love it: https://github.com/neurosnap/zmx/

Very similar, based on libghostty

johnfnyesterday at 11:47 PM

I think Cmux is the incumbent in the "screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty" - any key differentiators here? https://cmux.com/

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darkteflonyesterday at 10:26 PM

Installed using the curl-to-bash on Sequoia and I’m getting “error: ReadOnlyFileSystem” on ‘boo new’. Can’t see any open issues on gh and nothing in the readme.

Definitely interested in something like this - love ghostty and I’ve been finding Zellij a bit crashy recently (plus I don’t really need tabs).

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boltguotoday at 12:34 AM

Really dig the minimal approach here. Swapping the backend to libghostty is exactly the kind of clean architecture we need. Going to test drive this today.

Scarbutttoday at 4:53 AM

One window per session

This no good ;)

Old busted screen can do multiple windows per session.

asaryesterday at 10:09 PM

this looks nice! i've been using herdr the last couple of weeks as a terminal multiplexer for agents, which works amazingly well.