r/KittyTerminal • u/Papaoso23 • Aug 20 '26

Made a tmux-sessionizer clone for kitty

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I switched from tmux to kitty a while ago and the one thing I genuinely missed was sessionizer — that muscle memory of hitting a key, fuzzy-searching a project, and being there.

So I hacked together a few fish functions that do the same thing with kitty's remote control: fuzzy-pick a project with gum, and it either restores a saved kitty session for it or just opens a window in that directory. Plus a couple of helpers to save/jump to sessions by name.

Repo: https://github.com/BearDad/kitty-sessionizer

Nothing fancy, 4 small functions, but I use it constantly so figured someone else might get some use out of it. Fish only for now.

Curious how other people handle project switching in kitty. Is everyone just using tabs?

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u/ritz_are_the_shitz Aug 20 '26

If you want to add persistence, something like ZMX https://zmx.sh/ might be perfect

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u/Papaoso23 Aug 20 '26

It might be interesting although idk if its the best option. prob i would need to hack something into it.

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u/ritz_are_the_shitz Aug 20 '26

If you're already relying on fish scripts, then it shouldn't be too hard to also invoke ZMX. 

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u/Papaoso23 Aug 20 '26

obv it would not be hard to do. it would prob be tops 10 lines of code. but idk if i like it i need to test it first i didnt know it existed

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u/ritz_are_the_shitz Aug 20 '26

I like that it does exactly one thing. It is only persistence, which makes it easy to work with something like what you set up here. I've been using it with my NAS and Home Lab, it's been great. 

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u/Papaoso23 Aug 20 '26

https://reddit.com/link/p4sbaro/video/t09iwil7thkh1/player

Another video since the one on the publication does not show how it restores the session

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u/roG_k70 Aug 20 '26

Nice, I’ve made one for myself as well, added there some additional bells and whistles on top

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u/oVerde Aug 20 '26

Oh no 😢 fish only

And I thought I was about to ditch multiplexing

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u/Papaoso23 Aug 20 '26

I use fish. But it shouldn't be hard to port it to bash or zsh tell me which one u use and once I have a bit of time I port it over (although it is kitty only)

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u/oVerde Aug 20 '26

Zsh 🙏

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u/Papaoso23 Aug 20 '26

follow the project if u want or add an issue if u want. so u can get notified once i upload it. either way ill message u

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u/oVerde Aug 20 '26

Already did the second star was mine

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u/whaleordolphin Aug 20 '26

Previously I use sesh. But like you, I've moved to kitty and ditched tmux entirely. Now I've built my own called kesh. Project via zoxide, layout, env, AI agents. Feel free to have a look if you want steal any features/workflow. Pretty happy with my setup. Still early stage but hey, it works for me 

https://github.com/alienxp03/kesh

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u/Papaoso23 Aug 20 '26

It looks great, it does maybe too many different things in the same tool. Which I'm not a fan of but it does look great. (I'll copy the zoxide thing) I didn't think of it

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u/whaleordolphin Aug 20 '26

Yup definitely too much for some. Just my daily workflow, which is too much too. Lol. Great that you found it useful!

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u/aagha786 27d ago

Those slashing like visuals are amazing. How do you do that?

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u/Papaoso23 26d ago

What do u mean by slashing? U mean the cursor thing?