enable environment variables in ghostty config

[indika-dev]

Hi to all!

In my use case, I use ghostty on two different laptops with different hardware, screens and resolutions. So, on one laptop e.g. a font size of 14 is appropriate while on the other laptop a font size of 12 is really better. I'm coming from kitty and in kitty it is possible to load different config fiels by naming them with an environment variable. In my case, it looks like this in kitty:

include ${USER}.conf

In ghostty config I would therefore prefer to write:

config-file = ?${USER}.config

Current way for achieving the same functionality in ghostty comparable to kitty, is:

config-file = ?user1.config,?user2.config

and then remove the appropriate file locally. This is basically ok, but I share my config via github to both laptops and then it is a bit cumbersome to exchange the config between both laptops .

[mitchellh]

Probably not going to happen. There is another issue where discuss configurable properties (i.e. window type, OS, user, etc.) That's probably the correct long term approach. Feel free to comment there.

Current way for achieving the same functionality in ghostty comparable to kitty, is:

This is the intended method right now.

[indika-dev]

Thank you very much for your answer and I'm closing this discussion. I'm looking forward for the discussion mentioned in your answer.