[macOS] (bug) Font rendering changes dramatically on external monitor #4197
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For completeness, I should also mention that the rendering is different for ghostty windows that I open immediately on either monitor. It's not a function of actually dragging an existing window across the monitor boundaries. |
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For anyone who finds this via search, it's part of this bug: #4504 |
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Hi everyone-
I'm on a 2023 16" MacBook Pro M2 16" running Sequoia (15.2), connected to an external 24" HP non-4k display. I set up ghostty over the weekend and it looks great on the laptop's native Retina display, but then when I dock my laptop and run ghostty on my external display, it becomes very ugly- the font spacing becomes wrong. Additionally, there's a noticeable and ugly "pop" effect that happens, though I don't really care about that- I'm just mentioning it for completeness.
This feels more like a bug than a configuration issue- here are the details.
My config is simple:
Here's what ghostty looks like on my retina display:
and here's what the same window looks like when I drag it to my external monitor:
(The differences become much more visible when you click on the images to see them at their native resolutions, though you can kinda see it inlined here as well).
Here's a movie of me dragging the window between the two monitors (Quicktime can't record both monitors at once so the capture is from my external monitor):
ghostty-retina-external.mov
As a baseline comparison, iTerm2 does not pop or change the font spacing when it's dragged between monitors, and looks identical (to my eye) on both displays.
TIA for reading and any suggestions!
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