I switched to Ghostty today and configured it as a dropdown terminal. Now I can pull down a terminal overlay anywhere on my desktop with a hotkey: cmd + <backtick>.
The terminal slides down from the top of the screen, stays in focus until I'm done, then disappears when I hit the shortcut again. iterm 2 can also do this but it's buggy and slow. Ghostty is really fast and it just works.
Here's how it looks:
And here's my configuration:
keybind = global:cmd+grave_accent=toggle_quick_terminal
quick-terminal-animation-duration = 0
window-padding-x = 8
window-padding-y = 0,2
theme = 0x96f
macos-titlebar-style = native
macos-titlebar-style = transparent
Notes:
- The global: prefix makes the shortcut work system-wide.
- Setting animation duration to 0 makes it instant—no delays.