Crash when creating a new tab from “Show All Tabs” view

[agniwen]

Issue Description

Clicking the New Tab button on the All Tabs page should open a new tab as expected.

Expected Behavior

Clicking the New Tab button on the All Tabs page should open a new tab as expected.

Actual Behavior

The application crashes immediately

Reproduction Steps

1.Open Ghostty and create multiple tabs.
2.Right-click in the tab area and select “Show All Tabs” from the context menu.
3.On the All Tabs page, click the New Tab button.
4.The application crashes immediately.

Ghostty Logs

No response

Ghostty Version

Ghostty 1.3.0-main+ec2912dba

Version
  - version: 1.3.0-main+ec2912dba
  - channel: tip
Build Config
  - Zig version   : 0.15.2
  - build mode    : .ReleaseFast
  - app runtime   : .none
  - font engine   : .coretext
  - renderer      : renderer.generic.Renderer(renderer.Metal)
  - libxev        : kqueue

OS Version Information

macos 26.2

(Linux only) Display Server

None

(Linux only) Desktop Environment/Window Manager

No response

Minimal Ghostty Configuration

macos-icon = xray
window-padding-x = 8
theme = primary

Additional Relevant Configuration

No response

I acknowledge that:

• I have reviewed the FAQ and confirm that my issue is NOT among them.
• I have searched the Ghostty repository (both open and closed Discussions and Issues) and confirm this is not a duplicate of an existing issue or discussion.
• I have checked the "Preview" tab on all text fields to ensure that everything looks right, and have wrapped all configuration and code in code blocks with a group of three backticks (```) on separate lines.

[00-kat]

Ghostty Logs

No response

Anything in logs?

sudo log stream --level debug --predicate 'subsystem=="com.mitchellh.ghostty"'

[agniwen]

Filtering the log data using "subsystem == "com.mitchellh.ghostty""
Timestamp Thread Type Activity PID TTL
2026-01-10 23:37:03.341905+0800 0x10937e8 Info 0x2e22753 23675 0 ghostty: [com.mitchellh.ghostty:ghostty] known but unimplemented action action=40
2026-01-10 23:37:03.345914+0800 0x10937e8 Info 0x2e22753 23675 0 ghostty: [com.mitchellh.ghostty:io_exec] io_exec: found Ghostty resources dir: /Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/Resources/ghostty
2026-01-10 23:37:03.346139+0800 0x10937e8 Info 0x2e22753 23675 0 ghostty: [com.mitchellh.ghostty:io_exec] io_exec: shell integration automatically injected shell=.zsh
2026-01-10 23:37:03.346335+0800 0x10937e8 Info 0x2e22753 23675 0 ghostty: [com.mitchellh.ghostty:ghostty] known but unimplemented action action=22
2026-01-10 23:37:03.354774+0800 0x1095461 Info 0x0 23675 0 ghostty: [com.mitchellh.ghostty:io_exec] io_exec: started subcommand path=/usr/bin/login pid=25082
2026-01-10 23:37:11.040695+0800 0x10937e8 Info 0x0 23675 0 ghostty: [com.mitchellh.ghostty:ghostty] known but unimplemented action action=40
2026-01-10 23:37:11.043207+0800 0x10937e8 Info 0x0 23675 0 ghostty: [com.mitchellh.ghostty:io_exec] io_exec: found Ghostty resources dir: /Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/Resources/ghostty
2026-01-10 23:37:11.043354+0800 0x10937e8 Info 0x0 23675 0 ghostty: [com.mitchellh.ghostty:io_exec] io_exec: shell integration automatically injected shell=.zsh
2026-01-10 23:37:11.043465+0800 0x10937e8 Info 0x0 23675 0 ghostty: [com.mitchellh.ghostty:ghostty] known but unimplemented action action=22
2026-01-10 23:37:11.049843+0800 0x109579d Info 0x0 23675 0 ghostty: [com.mitchellh.ghostty:io_exec] io_exec: started subcommand path=/usr/bin/login pid=25492

[agniwen]

2026-01-10.23.33.59.mov

[mitchellh]

This is not reproducing for me on macOS 26.2 with the release or debug build from tip. I did the same thing as the video.

[nmggithub]

Similar behavior exhibiting in Electron apps: electron/electron#49819.

FWIW: I can repro on my end on macOS 26.3 and Ghostty 1.2.3.

Screen.Recording.2026-02-20.at.16.30.15.mov

[mitchellh]

Fixed on main, thanks @nmggithub