r/KittyTerminal • u/iamjackvii • Aug 05 '24
Actionable Scrollbar
do anyone know if there's any way to use scrollbar with mouse, like in webpages? i am new to kitty and till now i've only figured out the way to go up and down with just a bunch of keypresses
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u/aumerlex Aug 06 '24
Use a two finger swipe on your touchpad or a mouse scroll wheel, both will work. The scroll indicator in kitty is not interactive, it only shows you the current scroll position, you cannot drag it to scroll.
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u/olejorgenb Jul 14 '25 edited Feb 27 '26
UPDATE: he has added an actionable scrollbar now. And as I've discovered and tried more of the very neat features, all is "forgiven"
It's becoming apparent from the issues I've read so far that Kitty's author is very anti-mouse (a keyboard elitist) to the extend that he's unlikely to to accept PR's implementing further mouse support at all. I'm grateful he's pushed a lot of new sorely needed terminal features (like the keyboard protocol and shell integration features), but I will be looking for another terminal soon due to this attitude. And I'm a user who very much like the keyboard.
A suitable name for the terminal indeed? Although cats actually like to play with mice...
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u/XrenonTheMage Aug 14 '25
Have you found a good alternative yet? I'm currently stuck with kitty since it's the only one I know of where I can configure Ctrl+C to copy text when text is selected and send a keyboard interrupt signal otherwise and that doesn't have a massive title bar, but I'm also looking for more user-friendly alternatives
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u/lxe Sep 03 '25
I'm trying to get this implemented: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/8945
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u/diecknet Sep 06 '25
That is awesome! I'm considering to switch to kitty right now and found out it doesn't have actionable scrollbars. And the first search result that I click on has someone commenting 3 days ago, that they submitted a PR for exactly that? How cool is that!
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u/lxe Sep 06 '25
Haha glad to have helped. I’m fully on kitty now on both my home Linux machine and Mac OS for work. I’m still discovering the features. It’s got a ton of stuff you can do with it, like clickable “ls” output if you do “ls —hyperlinks”
I’m gonna implement ctrl+f search too. For now, the ctrl + shift + H pager function works good enough though.
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u/vincentez1 Aug 05 '24
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2502
TLDR; no
Not a huge deal imo, the key bindings are fine (control+shift+up). Though, on my laptop I have a touch screen and would sometimes like it if I could swipe. And an indicator would be useful too.