diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7bc1606d..d253f003 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Programa is a fork of [cmux](https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux); for history p
 - On Windows, pasting text with line breaks or control characters into a program that has not turned on bracketed paste (cmd.exe, PowerShell) asks first, with a preview.
 
 ### Changed
+- A focused terminal that has nothing new to show uses about half as much CPU. It stops waking up on every screen refresh after a quarter second of quiet and starts again on the next change.
 - Only one copy of Programa runs at a time: launching a second copy brings the running app forward and exits.
 - Closing a window with its red button or Close Window asks first when any of its workspaces has a running process, with the same confirmation as closing the last workspace. The socket method `window.close` still closes without asking.
 - Splitting a pane or opening a pane from the socket or CLI no longer moves focus; only explicit focus commands do.
diff --git a/docs/ghostty-fork.md b/docs/ghostty-fork.md
index 5dcce76d..c6e6340a 100644
--- a/docs/ghostty-fork.md
+++ b/docs/ghostty-fork.md
@@ -13,14 +13,15 @@ When we change the fork, update this document and the parent submodule SHA.
 
 ## Current fork changes
 
-The pinned fork head is `9d8aeccac` on the fork branch `osc7501-program-status`, which is
-fork `main`'s `bccfc8333fecf707dd918d46e3849fc8ed72cca0` plus the OSC 7501 patch group. Never
-delete that branch: the pin and its xcframework release point at it. It is built on
+The pinned fork head is `617aac442` on the fork branch `idle-park-display-link`, which is
+fork `main`'s `bccfc8333fecf707dd918d46e3849fc8ed72cca0` plus the OSC 7501 patch group and the
+idle display link park. Never delete that branch: the pin and its xcframework release point at it. It is built on
 `ghostty-org/ghostty` `main` at `c8634f3fce12f8189ed058e018195eb693f8562b` and Zig 0.16.0, and
-carries the eleven patch groups below: display-link restart, resize stale-frame mitigation, OSC 99
+carries the twelve patch groups below: display-link restart, resize stale-frame mitigation, OSC 99
 notifications, theme picker hooks, color scheme mode 2031, keyboard copy mode selection API,
 layer-background flag, occluded-surface throttle, offscreen renderer realization, session
-introspection and revival APIs (which include the PTY tee), and OSC 7501 program status.
+introspection and revival APIs (which include the PTY tee), OSC 7501 program status, and idle
+display link parking.
 
 Prebuilt framework for the pinned head:
 
@@ -189,6 +190,28 @@ tend to conflict together during rebases.
   - `GHOSTTY_OSC_COMMAND_PROGRAM_STATUS` is 26 here and 28 upstream, because the pin lacks the
     Kitty desktop notification and unknown-OSC commands. Take upstream's value on the next sync.
 
+### 12) Idle display link parking
+
+- Commits: `2076a6134` (renderer: park an idle display link until the next change),
+  `617aac442` (reset the idle timer under `draw_mutex`)
+- Files:
+  - `src/renderer/generic.zig`, `src/renderer/Thread.zig`
+- Summary:
+  - A focused, visible terminal ran its CVDisplayLink nonstop. Every vsync woke the render thread
+    for a `drawFrame` that found nothing to draw, about 1.2% of a core per focused terminal on an
+    Apple Silicon Mac.
+  - `drawFrame` notes each tick with nothing to draw and stops the link after 250ms of them.
+    `Thread.drawFrame` calls `resumeVsync` instead of `hasVsync`, which restarts a parked link when
+    the surface is visible and focused, so the change still draws on the next vsync rather than
+    without one.
+  - Restarting a parked link added about 4ms to that one draw on a bench. 250ms outlasts the gap
+    between keystrokes, so typing keeps the link running, and stays under the 600ms cursor blink,
+    so a blinking prompt still parks between blinks.
+- Conflict notes:
+  - Upstream reworks `syncDisplayLink` and the vsync path in `Thread.drawFrame` from time to time.
+    Keep the `resumeVsync` call at the `!now` draw gate and the idle-timer reset wherever the link
+    starts.
+
 ## Upstreamed fork changes
 
 ### cursor-click-to-move respects OSC 133 click-to-move
diff --git a/ghostty b/ghostty
index 9d8aecca..617aac44 160000
--- a/ghostty
+++ b/ghostty
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 9d8aeccac8a76906864c684b340af09f29d13487
+Subproject commit 617aac44206e6a88761e4b3a253547e07b8870df
diff --git a/scripts/ghosttykit-checksums.txt b/scripts/ghosttykit-checksums.txt
index 3cba08af..0d829c18 100644
--- a/scripts/ghosttykit-checksums.txt
+++ b/scripts/ghosttykit-checksums.txt
@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ c25020f993597285a331a76dcd7c8a6345b7e360 7ada2bddb5a33026fa5ff255a3f5fb4cabd44a6
 96316fc506f0015f6e8e3906b995e2c4aba23ebf 0f12f0d6dd920ccfa49789eae1018be314344797894ef0aae7db3e90fc27a441
 bccfc8333fecf707dd918d46e3849fc8ed72cca0 26441b6e038523b9c6223bfbb73535a727d5c7c26c225326dc85122bda30881f
 9d8aeccac8a76906864c684b340af09f29d13487 66ddf8bc25e53aef8d48cf75491a28882f57d0621ad6efae7060768e677c21d1
+617aac44206e6a88761e4b3a253547e07b8870df a2be0acaeaa4740c6f8d27adbc7529d1a7318dd224250f25edfa773b28b1949f