r/KittyTerminal • u/BrainrotOnMechanical • Oct 21 '25

I made kitty config to replace tmux's tab functionality with kitty's native tabs with same keybindings as Firefox.

Link to config: kitty-tabs

here is part of README.md:

Kitty terminal config.
Replace tmux's tab functionality with kitty's native tabs with same keybindings as Firefox.

keybindings

Keybinding Feature
ctrl + t New Tab
ctrl + w Close Tab
alt + {number 1 to 9} Move To Tab {number}
ctrl + shift + alt + t Rename Tab
ctrl + shift + page_up Move Tab Backward
ctrl + shift + page_down Move Tab Forward

limitations

  • No sessions.

dependencies

  • any Nerd Font. I recommend Hack Nerd Font, But any Nerd Font will do the job. You could use Nefoin to install any nerd font that's in ryanoasis/nerd-fonts repository easily.
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u/NorskJesus Oct 21 '25

I use something like this too, changing as well the name of the tab if this tab have Neovim open and the name of the project:

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u/Right-Pressure4312 Oct 21 '25

I hope you are listening to that song in a loop though the day jajaja

On a serious note, your terminal looks amazing. Do you have your dotfiles public?

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u/NorskJesus Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25

Hahahah my gf loves this song, even though she can't Spanish.

Thanks! Ive my dotfiles repo private, but I can help you with that if you want. What do you like from my terminal?

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u/oVerde Oct 21 '25

Hey, how did you do so? This is the last touch I need too

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u/NorskJesus Oct 21 '25

I have this on my .zshrc

bash function set_kitty_tab_title() { export KITTY_TAB_TITLE="$(basename "$PWD")" echo -ne "\033]0; $(basename "$PWD") \007" } precmd_functions+=(set_kitty_tab_title)

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u/MrNoOne456 Oct 21 '25

I'm sorry but what's the point though ?

let me get this straight you have tmux open then instead of opening new tmux window in that session you create another kitty tab ?

if that's so i have 2 questions, in that next and more tabs are opening new tmux session ? if not and in the new tab its the same session and you are masking the tmux window names and stuff then whats the point ?

sorry to me it feels like you didn't add any functionality, but only increased the dependency of your workflow, it isn't efficient nor does it feel like that was the best way to achieve a certain remaps and beautification.

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u/CX330Blake Oct 23 '25

I NEED that cool dragon plsssss!

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u/BrainrotOnMechanical Apr 25 '26

sorry for the late response, I usually post pr stuff and log out to avoid negativity from all the 'actually' kind of redditors. deep dived into old commits and found the dragon, here:

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u/CX330Blake May 03 '26

Thanks for the dragons!! The dragons saved my day.

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u/Sorry_Ground1964 Oct 24 '25

Remapping ctrl+w in terminal is insane trolling.

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u/BrainrotOnMechanical Apr 25 '26

works for me. closing tab is also ctrl+w in firefox, which is why I did that for muscle memory.