Ghostty's shell integration works worse than iTerm2's shell integration, and it may be a potential bug

[Xe-no1]

Ghostty has it's own built in shell integration, but on macOS, using zsh, it is 'buggy' when it comes to text redrawing, and the cursor-click-to-move feature doesn't work at all, basically, text redrawing when resizing the terminal and making it smaller (especially when there is alot of text printed to stdout, like when using a zsh prompt) makes the terminal look very ugly, and the cursor-click-to-move feature simply doesn't work at all, however, when using iTerm2's shell integration and sourcing it in my .zshrc instead of Ghostty's default shell integration, no issues occur and everything works perfectly. This is my entire ghostty config:

theme = nord
font-family = JetBrainsMonoNL Nerd Font Mono
font-size = 16
window-width = 180
window-height = 51
window-padding-x = 0
window-padding-y = 0
window-padding-balance = true
confirm-close-surface = false
macos-option-as-alt = true
clipboard-paste-protection = false
unfocused-split-opacity = 0.4
copy-on-select = false
cursor-style = bar
cursor-style-blink = true
shell-integration-features = cursor,sudo,no-title
window-colorspace = display-p3

This is the relevant part of my .zshrc, which manually loads ghostty's zsh integration:

# Manually load ghostty zsh integration
if [[ -n $GHOSTTY_RESOURCES_DIR ]]; then
  source $GHOSTTY_RESOURCES_DIR/shell-integration/zsh/ghostty-integration
fi

This is the relevant script that downloads and sources iTerm2's zsh integration (which should be sourced standalone without ghostty's shell integration):

# Manually install and load iTerm zsh integration
if [ ! -e ~/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh ]; then
curl -L https://iterm2.com/shell_integration/zsh -o ~/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh
fi
source ~/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh

This is a video to display an example of what happens on my machine (sorry if the quality is a bit bad I used ffmpeg to compress):

output.mp4

To recreate my problem, Ghostty should have the zsh integration feature enabled by default as well as cursor-click-to-move = true in the Ghostty config, and then iTerm's zsh integration is downloaded and sourced in the .zshrc, replacing Ghostty's zsh integration, both outcomes are compared, and iTerm's should work better, indicating that there may be a problem in Ghostty's default integration. I should also mention that I am using powelevel10k's zsh prompt. Thanks in advance for any help provided, or confirmation that this is a bug that shouldn't happen. For now I will work around this issue by using iTerm's zsh integration, but hopefully a fix in Ghostty's default one will be provided!

[Xe-no1]

Fix by using iTerm2's integration instead of Ghostty's
Manually iTerm's shell integration fixes it, this should be added to the .zshrc

# Manually install and load iTerm zsh integration
if [ ! -e ~/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh ]; then
curl -L https://iterm2.com/shell_integration/zsh -o ~/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh
fi
source ~/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh

[Xe-no1]

Im reopening this discussion, because although I can just work around this by using iTerm's integration, I'm hoping to make ghostty an even better terminal for everyone, so I must reopen this in hopes of actually finding a real fix for the builtin shell integration, not working around it with iTerm.

[mitchellh]

We've since rewritten our Zsh integration. Is this still an issue?

[Roxiun]

Yes, this is still an issue

No it appears it is fixed. By default the shell integration doesn't seem to be detected though and I had to manually add

if [[ -n $GHOSTTY_RESOURCES_DIR ]]; then
  source $GHOSTTY_RESOURCES_DIR/shell-integration/zsh/ghostty-integration
fi

to my .zshrc, possible because I might be using the deafult zsh packaged with macos

[Roxiun]

Actually on further testing it is still and issue, particularly when resizising text using CMD + shortcut, where as iTerm2 integration doesn't have any issues