window-save-state default behavior on macOS

[feekApp]

Hi,
It seems like the window-save-state = default (on macOS) does not remember the position and size of a window on cmd-Q.

When quitting Ghostty, and restarting, the window is back on the center with the default size. The "default" behavior should be on cmd-Q that the position and size is restored. Similar as now when using window-save-state = always. But when using window-save-state = always also the latest pwd is restored. Similar like f.e. Safari. Restoring pwd is not what I want.

So how can I get Ghostty restoring the size and position, but not the pwd. Using working-directory = home does not work, because that's is overwritten by the always option.

Maybe an new option window-save-state = size-and-position is a solution?

== Feek

[ara303]

👍 I'd love this. Terminal.app can be resized and moved around, which is all (edit: I was wrong, only position is) retained on quit and reload. So there is native precedent there at least for macOS.

window-save-state=always goes too far for the aforementioned reasons. I only want the physicality saved, not its... state. 😅

In terms of potential configuration options:

window-save-height-state = true
window-save-width-state = true 
window-save-position-state = true

(Could also be expanded to offer control over other state attributes like working directory, tabs/splits, etc.)

#4233 proposes to recall the last location on macOS, but I'm uncertain after reading that if that'd recall location and width/height (edit: it doesn't, which is unfortunate). This discussion advocates for recalling both, which is what I want.

As an aside, @feekApp, this discussion was a little tricky to search for. Perhaps renaming to something like "Save width/height state in addition to position on macOS" might be more clear and thus easier to find for upvotes?

[pluiedev]

I don't use macOS so I cannot comment on the merit of the idea, but in terms of config design, we would go with a set of flags like window-save-state = size,position,no-pwd instead of separate boolean options.

[ara303]

For my part, this would be fine. I just felt that when I first started with Ghostty I had one, admittedly very small, moment where I was a little disappointed that window-save-state was so limited in the options it allowed. It being "either remember everything or nothing" bothered me a little.

[taylrfnt]

Just to add, if you have a terminal size you like/use, you can set the window dimensions using window-height and window-width.

I know that doesn't address the question of how these sizes would be retained/persisted if you edit them, but I've found this to pretty much meet my needs.

I'll leave the discussion of the feature implementation & design to the relevant subsystem maintainer(s), but you may want to add "Feature request: " to the title or something similar to flag this as a true feature request

[ara303]

That misses the point OP is making here, which I agree with. This discussion proposed is to retain the the previously last used width/height which could be reloaded.