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KDE developer unveils Kwi, a GPU-accelerated terminal built on Ghostty

Eike Hein announces Kwi terminal emulator for KDE

1 Oct 31 10:56 PM · 10d ago · 2 posts · 2 sources · development 1 of 2

Hein published a KDE blog post introducing Kwi, a new terminal built on Ghostty's libghostty-vt library, Qt Quick/Kirigami UI, and GPU-accelerated rendering via Vulkan or OpenGL, positioned as a modern alternative to Konsole.

Eike Hein announces Kwi terminal emulator for KDE
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“the product vision for Kwi is to be kind of unexciting: Just what you want and expect out of a KDE Plasma terminal.”

Eike Hein

Eike Hein KDE developer, creator of KwiGhostty project Upstream terminal library provider

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  1. 1 outlet Kwi Being Developed As New KDE Terminal Emulator With 3x To 35x Performance

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