feat(snapshot): daemon sends libghostty snapshots instead of raw bytestream - #243
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…stream This allows zmx to directly inject terminal state into terminal emulators that speak libghostty's snapshot api. This only impacts terminal rehydration of clients when they first attach to a zmx session. What does this mean? Terminal emulators that support loading libghostty snapshots directly can receive a perfect recreation of zmx's session instead of relying on us re-printing the ansi bytestream into every client that connects to a zmx session. Right now only `monstar` has experimental support for the snapshot api, but this is how it would work: ```bash zmx attach snap.1 // do some terminal stuff // close terminal and then use monstar: monstar --attach="zmx attach -s snap.1" // zmx will directly load the underlying `libghostty.Terminal` into `monstar` ``` Link: rockorager/monstar#35
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This allows zmx to directly inject terminal state into terminal emulators that speak libghostty's snapshot api.
This only impacts terminal rehydration of clients when they first attach to a zmx session.
What does this mean?
Terminal emulators that support loading libghostty snapshots directly can receive a perfect recreation of zmx's session instead of relying on us re-printing the ansi bytestream into every client that connects to a zmx session. Printing the bytestream mostly works but has some weird quirks and is not guaranteed to be identical -- it's an approximation. Using the snapshot API we get a much closer terminal "cloning" system.
Right now only
monstarhas experimental support for the snapshot api, but this is how it would work:Link: rockorager/monstar#35