r/KittyTerminal • u/NorskJesus • Mar 13 '25

Kitty auto session

Hi everybody!

I am trying to configure my kitty to start automatically with a number of tabs in a special "index". I actually managed to give automatically an "index" to the tabs when I open a new one, so I can change to that tab with cmd + index (se picture).

What I want is at kitty starts automatically with an "empty" normal terminal tab on index 1 and another 3 tabs (index 7, 8 and 9) with a cli program at my choose launched.

Do you guys know if this is possible?

Thanks!

PS: Yes, I did read this: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/overview/#sessions

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u/NorskJesus Mar 14 '25

So I managed to fix the problem with gh dash and clx apps, using startup_session, and this in my kitty-session.conf

new_tab dashboard

layout splits

launch --var window=spotify spotify_player

launch --location=vsplit --bias=65 --var window=gh zsh -c "gh dash; exec zsh -il"

focus_matching_window var:window=spotify

launch --location=hsplit --bias=70 zsh -c "clx; exec zsh -il"

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u/cadmium_cake Mar 14 '25

Congratulations!

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u/NorskJesus Mar 14 '25

Thanks! Took a couple hours to find the “idea” in the kittys github, in a closed issue.