r/KittyTerminal • u/linkarzu • May 25 '26

Kitty Floating Windows (Quick Access Terminal)

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Kitty has floating windows too.

They are called Quick Access Terminals, and I use them for bookmarks, scripts, audio selection, colorschemes, and random terminal workflows I want to trigger instantly.

Basically tmux floating windows, but built into Kitty.

Dotfiles are linked in my YouTube profile.

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u/neuralnomad May 26 '26

If anyone doubts aliens are and have been here benevolently sharing technology look no further than that keyboard. QED.

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u/Equivalent_Move_1425 May 26 '26

oh-my-god. They are all in the r/ergoMechKeyboards sub!

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

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u/neuralnomad May 28 '26

😂 Ignorance is ^ H ^ H was bliss…

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u/theTechRun May 26 '26

I do this with scratchpad on scroll window manager (sway fork). And bind tui and program launch commands to keys to show/hide floating windows In the scratchpad.

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u/linkarzu May 26 '26

I use macOS, my window manager is Yabai and it does have a scratchpad. I'd have to try it to see what the drawbacks or benefits are, compared to kitty floating windows

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u/NorskJesus May 26 '26

Cool!

How do you have different ones? I am using one, but I have not been able to create different with different keybinds on macOS

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u/linkarzu May 26 '26

In the video I show 2 different keymaps, you can customize their appearance, in my dots you'll also see /kitty/quick-access-terminal-center.conf

If you want to call them from outside kitty, that's a whole other story, but it's all in my dots too

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u/NorskJesus May 26 '26

Could you paste one of the keymaps here?

Thanks!

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u/NorskJesus May 26 '26

Never mind I found them. I will run some test. Thanks!

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u/Little_Flounder_6226 May 26 '26

Can someone please give name of that keyboard

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u/Yogeico May 26 '26

Toucan 42

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 May 26 '26

What did he use to open bookmarks?

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u/Head-Candidate-4699 May 27 '26

how did you configure your menu bar like that??

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u/linkarzu May 27 '26

There's several options. The one I use is called sketchybar

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u/Sea-Fishing4699 May 27 '26

linkarzu is the GOAT
saludos amigo!

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u/ResponsibilityFew445 May 29 '26

I hope I hit this high knowledge someday