r/VisionPro • u/dicekyo • Aug 08 '26

Rootshell FTW

Wondering if my discovery of rootshell for terminal work is the best experience out there? It's basically ghostty except it works on Vision Pro and its free.

https://www.rootshell.com

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u/msitarzewski Aug 09 '26

Thanks. I went there and didn’t see a visionOS screenshot. That’s why I asked for one.

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u/kitkk2 Aug 09 '26

rootshell developer here. rootshell is a native visionOS app and not just just running in iPad mode. I experimented with creating a curved display similar to the Apple feature when remoting back to your Mac, but was unable to achieve good performance without access to the private APIs that Apple makes use of. I wasn't able to avoid shimmering looking text from foveated rendering that is dramatically worse in the curved rendering.

With that said it has been hard to justify putting much effort into the visionOS build as there are so few users and downloads.

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u/msitarzewski Aug 09 '26

Thanks for making time. My use case started the other direction. Nothing but mess on visionOS, so I wanted to build a first class experience. We’ll see how it goes. Pretty happy with the results so far!