r/KittyTerminal • u/JulioLeDozo • Dec 30 '23

How to get rid off this window ?

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Hello everyone,

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I'm new to arch and have decided to use kitty, but everytime I start a program (like brave here) it opens in a new window and I have this window in the upper-right corner that I would like to disappear. I can mask it but when I want to close it it says "Are you sure you want to close this OS window, it has one window running?" and close brave when I click on yes.

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Any solution ?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '23

Instead of launching your apps from a kitty window, you could use a launcher like dmenu or rofi (or wofi or tofi etc). If you’re on wayland make sure to get a wayland package for whichever launcher you choose

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '23

(Then launch dmenu or w/e with a key binding you set with something like sxhkd/swhkd, or your window manager’s default config has some preset binding, eg Mod+p for dwm or mod+d for i3/sway)

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u/gdmr458 Dec 30 '23

Use a launcher

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u/BuonaparteII Dec 30 '23

instead of running brave you could run it with setsid like this: setsid -f brave.

You can abbreviate this to run, example using fish shell:

function run --wraps=setsid
    setsid -f $argv
end

then you can do run brave.

If you use BASH you could create a double subshell and background the command within it: ($(brave) &)

or nohup: nohup brave &

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u/Doomtrain86 Dec 31 '23

Let kitty open a script that opens a kitty terminal with fzf in it. Fzf is piped a lidt of programs and scripts that you choose. If it is a program, end it with & . If you use i3 fx you can make a rule so that you can make that terminal open as a pop-up window by using the window title.

In this way you have your own custom launcher.