An everyday terminal
Alto is a full terminal you can live in, not only a place to park agents.
- libghostty for the terminal itself: fast and correct, the same core as Ghostty.
- Tabs in the title bar, each with its shortcut (⌥1 to ⌥8, ⌥9 for the last), its agent’s mark and its title. Drag to reorder.
- Splits right and down, focus by direction, resize, zoom one pane, equalize.
- Profiles and themes: a look and a shell per profile, built-in Alto Dark and Light, your own themes, or any of Ghostty’s if it’s installed. See Settings and profiles.
- Search in the scrollback, links, and native selection and scrolling: nothing like tmux’s copy mode in the way.
- Images: Kitty graphics, iTerm2 inline images and Sixel.
- The Kitty keyboard protocol, so programs that ask for it get every key unambiguously.
- Fonts on demand:
alto fonts listandalto fonts install NAMEdownload a font, checked against its pinned SHA-256.
See Keyboard shortcuts.