# Decisions for Maya's Ghostty setup

Source of every quote: `observations.txt`. Ghostty version read: 1.3.1 (`/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/MacOS/ghostty --version`).
Defaults were read with `ghostty +show-config --default`, shortcuts with `ghostty +list-keybinds --default`, and themes with `ghostty +list-themes --plain` (all run as the full app path above).

Each "Default:" line below is checked by `check.py` against what Ghostty itself reports.

## Note 1: text size

- What she wants: larger text than she started with.
- Default: `font-size = 13`
- Command: `ghostty +show-config --default`
- Evidence for a change: "Ghostty started at 13 points and I was squinting within a minute" and "which made it 16 points, and ten lines were comfortable on my desk monitor".
- Decision: change. Write `font-size = 16`, the size she tested and found comfortable. Her laptop is untested ("I have not tried 16 on it yet"), so that is the open question in questions.md. The built-in shortcuts still work for quick changes:
- Default keybind: `super++=increase_font_size:1`
- Default keybind: `super+-=decrease_font_size:1`
- Default keybind: `super+0=reset_font_size`

## Note 2: light in the morning, dark at night

- What she wants: a terminal that is readable in morning glare and follows her Mac's Light and Dark appearance.
- Default: `theme = ` (empty, so the terminal colors are always Ghostty's dark default)
- Default: `window-theme = auto`
- Command: `ghostty +show-config --default`, then `ghostty +list-themes --plain` to confirm both themes are marked `(resources)`, meaning built in.
- Evidence for a change: "the terminal stays dark all day, and in the morning glare the dark window is hard to read" and "My Mac switches between Light and Dark appearance on its own".
- Decision: change. Write `theme = light:Builtin Light,dark:Ghostty Default Style Dark`. In Light appearance she gets plain dark text on white; in Dark appearance she keeps the look she already has. Note 6 says she only cares that colors are readable, so I chose the plainest high contrast light theme rather than a styled one. `window-theme = auto` already follows the system when the theme has light and dark halves, so it stays at its default.

## Note 3: Claude Code on one side, a second terminal on the other

- What she wants: two terminals side by side in one window.
- Default keybind: `super+d=new_split:right`
- Default keybind: `super+[=goto_split:previous`
- Default keybind: `super+]=goto_split:next`
- Command: `ghostty +list-keybinds --default`
- Evidence for a change: none. The default already does this.
- Decision: keep the default, write nothing. Press Command and D to split the window into left and right. Press Command and [ or Command and ] to move between the two sides. Close a side with Command and W.

## Note 4: afraid of closing the window while the agent works

- What she wants: protection from closing a window by accident while a program is running.
- Default: `confirm-close-surface = true`
- Default keybind: `super+z=undo`
- Command: `ghostty +show-config --default` and `ghostty +list-keybinds --default`
- Evidence for a change: none. With the default `true`, Ghostty asks for confirmation before closing a terminal where a program such as Claude Code is still running.
- Decision: keep the default, write nothing. If she does close something by mistake, Command and Z (undo) can bring it back right after.

## Note 5: see-through, blurred window

- What she wants: unsure. "It looked cool, but I do not know whether it would help me read."
- Default: `background-opacity = 1`
- Default: `background-blur = false`
- Command: `ghostty +show-config --default`
- Evidence for a change: none. She does not say it would help her read, and her other notes (squinting, morning glare) point toward more contrast, not less.
- Decision: keep the default (solid window), write nothing.

## Note 6: colors and shortcuts

- What she wants: readable colors and no list of shortcuts to learn.
- Default: `cursor-style = block`
- Command: `ghostty +show-config --default` and `ghostty +list-keybinds --default`
- Evidence for a change: none. "I do not care about colors beyond being able to read them, and I do not want to learn a list of keyboard shortcuts."
- Decision: keep the defaults, write nothing, add no custom shortcuts. The only keys the guide asks her to know are Command and D (split), Command and plus or minus (text size), and Command and comma (settings).