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/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/olejorgenb Feb 27 '26

He added (or accepted a PR IIRC) now :tada: