Quick terminal left position: top clipped, gap at bottom on KDE Wayland

[bebeal]

Issue Description

When using quick-terminal-position = left, the quick terminal does not span the full screen height on KDE Plasma Wayland. The top portion is clipped behind the KDE top panel, and there is a visible gap at the bottom between the terminal and the taskbar.

With quick-terminal-position = top, the terminal appears correctly.

Reproduced on two separate Arch Linux machines, both running KDE Plasma on Wayland.

top (works correctly):

left (broken — top clipped behind panel, gap at bottom):

Expected Behavior

The quick terminal with quick-terminal-position = left should span the full usable screen height, anchored to the top-left corner and extending to the bottom, similar to how top spans the full width.

Actual Behavior

The terminal is vertically mispositioned — the top is clipped behind the KDE panel and there is a gap at the bottom.

Reproduction Steps

1. Set quick-terminal-position = left in Ghostty config.
2. Restart Ghostty.
3. Toggle the quick terminal with ctrl+grave_accent.
4. Observe the top is clipped and bottom has a gap.
5. Change to quick-terminal-position = top and repeat — works correctly.

Ghostty Logs

No response

Ghostty Version

Ghostty 1.3.0-r1.gf8a0a45-1-arch

Version
  - version: 1.3.0-r1.gf8a0a45-1-arch
  - channel: tip
Build Config
  - Zig version   : 0.15.2
  - build mode    : .ReleaseFast
  - app runtime   : .gtk
  - font engine   : .fontconfig_freetype
  - renderer      : renderer.generic.Renderer(renderer.OpenGL)
  - libxev        : io_uring
  - kernel version: 6.19.6-zen1-1-zen
  - desktop env   : other
  - GTK version   :
    build         : 4.20.3
    runtime       : 4.20.3
  - libadwaita    : enabled
    build         : 1.8.4
    runtime       : 1.8.4
  - libX11        : enabled
  - libwayland    : enabled

OS Version Information

Arch Linux (rolling)

(Linux only) Display Server

Wayland

(Linux only) Desktop Environment/Window Manager

KDE Plasma 6.6.2 / KWin 6.6.2 / Frameworks 6.23.0 / Qt 6.10.2 (Wayland)

Minimal Ghostty Configuration

font-family = Berkeley Mono Nerd
theme = iTerm2 Solarized Dark
minimum-contrast = 1.1
cursor-text = 073642
cursor-style = block
shell-integration-features = no-cursor,sudo,ssh-terminfo,ssh-env
keybind = shift+enter=text:\x1b\r
keybind = shift+space=text:\x20
scrollbar = system
clipboard-paste-protection = false
keybind = global:ctrl+grave_accent=toggle_quick_terminal
quick-terminal-position = top

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.

[pluiedev]

There are two separate issues at play here:

1. quick-terminal-size does not account for the widths and heights of any extra docks, bars, extra widgets, etc. since this information is only available to the Wayland compositor and not individual applications. You must set it to something like 95% to account for the space taken up by other software.
2. We also don't control where exactly the quick terminal is placed — that is again the sole domain of the compositor. If you believe this to be a bug, you need to ask the KWin developers to fix this for you. All we can do as the application is to politely ask the compositor if we can anchor the quick terminal at a given edge, and let the compositor decide how much space should be allocated.

[pluiedev]

Please do not post completely irrelevant questions on solved threads, but the answer is yes. It's up to you to find out how with your own research.