Atuin's keybinds do not work in Ghostty

[FlawlessCasual17]

Literally, what the title says. I am not able to use Atuin's keybinds for the Up and Down arrow keys in Ghostty. I either forced to disable Atuin entirely, or switch to another terminal emulator. Can someone please help me?

[pluiedev]

Make sure that your atuin keybinds aren't conflicting with either system keybinds or with Ghostty's default keybinds (see ghostty +list-keybinds). Additionally, if your keybinds involve Ctrl and you're on Intel Macs, try updating to the latest tip version — we've fixed a bug where all Ctrl keybinds were unusable for a few commits.

[FlawlessCasual17]

I'm on Linux (Nobara 41) BTW, I do not use macOS. Also, I am using the default config (including keybinds) for Atuin.

[00-kat]

What Atuin's keybindings don't work? Just up and down, or do they have some modifier key?

Does term = xterm-256color in your Ghostty configuration work? How about shell-integration = none? (Both of these are just temporary possible solutions to narrow down the issue; don't actually consider this to be a solution.)

[FlawlessCasual17]

What Atuin's keybindings don't work? Just up and down, or do they have some modifier key?

It seems to sort of function, but it unfortunately does not show the Atuin TUI, which is pretty disappointing since that is what Atuin is best known for.

Does term = xterm-256color in your Ghostty configuration work? How about shell-integration = none? (Both of these are just temporary possible solutions to narrow down the issue; don't actually consider this to be a solution.)

# background = 24273a
# foreground = cad3f5

font-family = "JetbrainsMono Nerd Font"

theme = catppuccin-macchiato
font-size = 14

window-height = 25
window-width = 113
window-decoration = client

keybind = f11=toggle_fullscreen

link-url = true

confirm-close-surface = false

window-subtitle = working-directory

gtk-adwaita = true

# For ghostty
keybind = alt+1=unbind
keybind = alt+2=unbind
keybind = alt+3=unbind
keybind = alt+4=unbind
keybind = alt+5=unbind
keybind = alt+6=unbind
keybind = alt+7=unbind
keybind = alt+8=unbind
keybind = alt+9=unbind

Here is a video demonstrating Ghostty with the shell-integration = none option enabled:

2025-03-21.19-22-22.mp4

Here is a video demonstrating Ghostty again, but with the term = xterm-256color option enabled:

2025-03-21.19-28-08.mp4

I was surprised that I was able to get Atuin's TUI to open after entering the clear command with a space, then using my up arrow key. However, after clearing the terminal and trying to repeat my previous task, I was no longer able to reproduce it, unfortunately.

[FlawlessCasual17]

I did try using both options, but I wasn't able to get any different results.

[00-kat]

Do you happen to know if it's possible to check if Atuin was loaded correctly? I've never used Atuin but that history matching on up arrow that was happening is what Fish's built-in history search looks like, so I think it's possible that Atuin never loaded.

[FlawlessCasual17]

No, that is not Fish's built-in history search. That was Atuin.