One of the design goals of kitty is to be easily extensible so that newįeatures can be added in the future with relatively little effort. It even extends existing text formatting escape codes, to add support forįeatures not available elsewhere, such as colored and styled (curly) underlines. Using only OpenGL for rendering everything.įinally, kitty is designed from the ground up to support all modern terminalįeatures, such as Unicode, true color, bold/italic fonts, text formatting, etc. It does not depend on any large and complex UI toolkit, Written in a mix of C (for performance sensitive parts), Python (for easyĮxtensibility and flexibility of the UI) and Go (for the command line The code in kitty is designed to be simple, modular and hackable. (I like to store configuration in source control). ItsĬonfiguration is a simple, human editable, single file for easy reproducibility With the keyboard (although it fully supports mouse interactions as well). Kitty is designed for power keyboard users. Toggle table of contents sidebar Overview # Design philosophy # Toggle navigation of Detailed list of changes Why does kitty sometimes start slowly on my Linux system?.I opened and closed a lot of windows/tabs and top shows kitty’s memory usage is very high?.Things behave differently when running kitty from system launcher vs.How do I open a new window or tab with the same working directory as the current window?.How do I map key presses in kitty to different keys in the terminal program?.How can I assign a single global shortcut to bring up the kitty terminal?.kitty is not able to use my favorite font?.I catted a binary file and now kitty is hung?.How do I specify command line options for kitty on macOS?.How do I change the colors in a running kitty instance?.I cannot use the key combination X in program Y?.I get errors about the terminal being unknown or opening the terminal failing or functional keys like arrow keys don’t work?.Using a color theme with a background color does not work well in vim?.Some special symbols are rendered small/truncated in kitty?.

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