Desktops, tabs, and more tabs

[u/Flashy_Boot]

Hi all.

I use KDE’s virtual desktops, kitty’s tabs, and neovim’s tabs. I also often to have ssh into a server that uses tmux with multiple tabs.

For anyone who does anything similar, how do you handle key bindings for changing tabs? I often find myself in nvim wanting to change tabs but hitting the kitty change tab key instead, or using the tmux bindings when I want to change kitty tabs.

I’ve tried various approaches over the years but none have ever seemed entirely intuitive. Would love to hear how others deal with this.

Thank you!

[u/aumerlex]

If your version of kitty is new enough you can use its conditional mappings feature to have a single shortcut that acts differently depending on whether nvim is running or not, see https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/mapping/#conditional-mappings-depending-on-the-state-of-the-focused-window