Tabs Causing Issues with MacOS Window Managers

[jcalabro]

Hey there! I just noticed that Ghostty has some odd behavior when spawning new tabs using either yabai or aerospace. When I create a new tab, it treats each tab as if its two separate processes running and causes my window manager layout to get confused.

Here's an example of a single Ghostty instance with 3 tabs, which ideally would result in one large window with 3 tabs:

Edit: oops, sorry, accidentally opened the issue before I was done typing!

[mitchellh]

This is not a Ghostty bug. Ghostty uses macOS native tabs. koekeishiya/yabai#68

[jcalabro]

Interesting. I noticed that Terminal.app has the same behavior, but iTerm2 does not exhibit this. They must be doing something differently?

[mitchellh]

Yes iTerm2 uses a custom tab bar, they hand draw and implement all behaviors.

[jcalabro]

Got it, thanks! 👍

[jcalabro]

Here's the corresponding Aerospace issue as well nikitabobko/AeroSpace#68

In fact, even Finder has this issue :shakesfist:

[mitchellh]

Thank you ❤️