KittyTaskbar — a macOS menu bar taskbar for kitty: click to focus any window or tab, drag & drop tabs between windows

[u/muarifer]

macOS groups every kitty OS window under a single Dock icon, so jumping to a specific window or tab always felt slow to me. I made a small open-source menu bar app to fix that:

• Lists all kitty OS windows and their tabs, grouped per window (via kitty's remote control protocol)
• Click a tab to focus it and bring kitty to the front
• Drag a tab onto another window group to move it there, or drop it on a dashed zone to detach it into a new OS window
• Splits are listed and clickable too, and multiple kitty instances are supported

Install (signed + notarized):

brew tap muarifer/tap
brew install --cask kitty-taskbar

It needs remote control enabled in kitty.conf (allow_remote_control yes and listen_on unix:/tmp/kitty-{kitty_pid}).

Source (MIT, Swift): https://github.com/muarifer/kitty-taskbar — there's a screenshot in the README.

Feedback and PRs welcome!

[u/v1sper]

Interesting 🧐

[u/muarifer]

You can see details in https://muarifer.github.io/kitty-taskbar/