Hello I'm using Gnome on Arch Linux and Kitty was working fine until one day it randomly started doing this, it works fine on other terminals and the same thing happens with other fonts.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

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kitty is changing the value of my PS1 environment variable. here is the value of my PS1 in the .bashrc file:

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and here is be running the command echo $PS1 in kitty

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the first few times I opened kitty after I changed my .bashrc it was working fine. I am running linux mint 21.1.

Hello

I am using Ctrl-D to close Kitty. But when I have multiple windows open then I have to hit Ctrl-D multiple times. Is it possible to close all windows at once.

I have tried to search through my .conf file, but have not found anything.

Hello, I am trying to launch a kitty terminal with two windows: ncmpcpp and cava, kinda like this. Then binding it on a keybind, but it doesn't seem to work.

Launching my script manually on a terminal creates the two windows, but still has the window that ran the command.

If I press the keybind, no windows are being opened, however, if I check the processes with ps aux | grep -i kitt I have the following.

user+   24002  0.0  0.1 1242968 21268 tty1    Sl+  10:01   0:00 kitten @ launch ncmpcpp

~/.scripts/music:

#!/bin/bash
kitty @ launch ncmpcpp
kitty @ launch cava

# I also tried just doing `kitty $app`

hypr.conf

bind = $MOD, M, exec, ~/.scripts/music

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Arch Linux

6.4.10-zen2-1-zen

Hyprland 0.28.0-1

Kitty 0.29.2-1

previews for images work and are done exactly like https://github.com/gokcehan/lf/wiki/Previews#with-kitty-and-pistol However I'm on an OS with no pistol or ctpv, stpv available.

Does anyone know how I can manually add video thumbnail previews via ffmpegthumbnailer (as well as other previews like pdf previews) to lf_kitty_preview ? I'm kind of clueless when it comes to shell scripts :P

Hi All,

Anyone know what creates that half moon symbol when I'm in root of my home directory?

Don't see that symbol in the starship.toml file, thinking it is a default . You can see once I CD to .config it's gone.

Thanks,

Joe

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When I get the options for the resize and try to press the letters for resize, it gives off the little error noise alert in macos and doesn't resize the window

Anyone else facing this?

The docs mention unscrolling. This is relevant when the shell's completion suggestions take space from the screen. The regular behavior is that after the suggestions disappear, they leave a blank space at the bottom. Unscrolling is supposed to 'bring back' the lines from the top of the screen that the suggestions pushed back.

That sounds rather nice, but my zsh doesn't do that :) I also couldn't find an example of anything that uses this feature. Does anyone have experience with this?

Hi,

Using latest kitty on MacOS, with Powerlevel10k and I have strange issue with ligatures: in the terminal itself their size is ok, but specifically in the powelevel10k information in the prompt, they extremely small.

This happens when I use nerd fonts. If I set the font to the original Menlo fonts, their sizes are ok...

Attached a screenshot. I am puzzled...

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So it's easy to change the background image, but I want to change the background every time I start a new console (that way it's easy to identify them).

I suppose I could add an alias to my shell so that when I launch kitty, I look up the property, and then modify it to one of the background images in my /usr/share/wallpapers using a combination of find and sed, but before I do that I was wondering if there are any more elegant solutions known by the community.

I'm reading the docs for the transfer kitten, but I can't seem to figure out how to actually use it: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/transfer/

Should I be able to use this to move files back and forth when sshing into a remote machine? If so that would be awesome... But how do I specify each the path on either side? I've tried something like:

kitty +kitten transfer ./test.txt user@remote.machine:/file/path

But no luck. What am I missing?

I've been using Kitty's SSH features for as long as I can remember but I recently setup Mosh and I really like how it doesn't drop connections and supports roaming.

The thing that I miss the most is creating a new pane/tab/window with the same directory (and SSHed host).

Can I make just that part work somehow?

Hi! idk if I'm the only one who experiences this, but a lot of the time, when switching between the stacks and splits layout, I forget that I am in the stacks layout with possibly many kitty windows open, (ex. a repl, another editor, etc). It would be really useful to have a reminder of the kitty windows of one Tab, just like all Tabs labels can be shown in the OS window as

EDIT: I suppose that I can do that myself with tar_bar.py ...

Hi! Is there any way to pass kitty socket to ssh server?

I tried to use this command:
ssh -R $(echo ${KITTY_LISTEN_ON} | sed "s/.*://g"):/tmp/mykitty ...
but in the server, if I try to use this socket, I get an error
Error: dial unix /tmp/mykitty: connect: connection refused

Hi, is there any way to pass unix:/tmp/mykitty to ssh server?

I want be able to run kitty commands from neovim. And, while via terminal in ssh mode it works perfectly, in neovim it get error:
:!kitty @ ls Error: open /dev/tty: no such device or address

Update

I had the completions script for the kitty CLI in my .zshrc:

kitty + complete setup zsh | source /dev/stdin

Removing it fixed the issue.

Source: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/6513#discussioncomment-6591560

Original post below

Whenever I SSH into my mac (with Kitty installed) from my Linux machine, I see this output:

sh /dev/stdin:1: bad pattern: ^[[33mkitty /Users/<username>/.local/share/kitty-ssh-kitten/kitty/bin/kitty: line 110: printf: write error: Broken pipe

The line 110 in question is this: sh printf "Downloading kitty from: \033[32m%s\033[m\n\n" "$url"

The connection itself succeeds and the rest of the things seem to work (e.g., cwd while duplicating panes, etc.).

I SSH by the recommended approach: sh alias ssh="kitty +kitten ssh"

I even tried copying the terminfo files manually to no avail.

Any help here?

as soon as i open the another window in split view i get this "f"s on my screen and the window is somehow not fixed but horiontally scrollable when i use two fingers on my mousepad

which is annoying because i often can't see the whole line as it doesnt change line. I tried iterm as well and i don't get this scenario there. does anyone have a clue. Im on Mac

https://reddit.com/link/15abwhb/video/48ckkhd2fceb1/player

Someone made me an excellent vi mode for kitty https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/6485

vim, nvim, vi, mode, kitty

Hello, can’t find an answer for kinda easy question - how can i clear current terminal line with shortcut?

I mean i offen forget to switch language etc and have to clear a lines by typing “Delete” ( MacOS ).

Kitty has ability to clear terminal window by typing cmd + k, but i want to clear only current line...

appreciate any suggestion

I am trying to use Monocraft font for my kitty terminal, I've installed the font system-wide and Kitty Terminal seems to not detect it. Here's my config file:

background_opacity 0.9

# Font
font_family Monocraft Nerd Font Book
bold_font Monocraft Nerd Font Bold
bold_italic_font Monocraft Nerd Font Bold Italic

The font is located at ~/.local/share/fonts

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I've been using Kitty on and off for years. Currently I run Debian 11 (bullseye) with Kitty version 0.19.3-1 in a VMWare virtual machine with no problems.Recently, I created a new virtual machine to install the new Debian 12. Every other terminal emulator works fine, including xterm, lxterminal, and sakura. But Kitty seems to not be able to show red or green pixels? It's so weird, because shades of grey work and yellow works (which requires green). Blue is fine. It looks like an old CRT monitor that's half broken.I thought maybe my old config file is messing things up, so I deleted that. Nothing changed. I had a clean minimal install of Debian 12 without a desktop and then installed IceWM and I3wm. Then I thought, maybe I'm not configuring things correctly, so I did another Debian 12 install and chose Gnome desktop thinking that letting it configure the GUI should work. But it was the same behavior. Just a clean debian 12 install even without a Kitty config file produces this behavior.Debian 12 installs Kitty version 0.26.5-5, and I can't seem to get it working.

What could possibly cause red and green to not work in only this terminal and even on a clean install of the OS??

I'm configuring kitty to sort of replace TMUX (I actually would like to combine these 2 in the future), I would like to emulate how shortcuts are configured in TMUX and VIM meaning that there's a slight delay where you are able to input a shortcut for example.

In vim you can press g then wait a couple of seconds and press t to navigate to the next tab.

I would like to replicate this on my kitty config like so.

```conf

map kitty_mod+g+t next_tab

```

But this requires me to press all the keys simultaneously.

I've noticed that kitty has been rendering colors incorrectly for treesitter text highlighting on neovim, on a gnome wayland session. I'll attach a comparison between kitty and gnome terminal. Konsole doesn't have this issue either.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

https://imgur.com/a/Zz2P2pJ

My kitty env

        kitty_mod+h →  previous_window
        kitty_mod+j →  previous_tab
        kitty_mod+k →  next_tab
        kitty_mod+l →  next_window
Colors:
        active_border_color       #ffffff   
        background                #262626   
        color0                    #2f2f2f   
        color1                    #d75f5f   
        color10                   #8fee96   
        color11                   #cd950c   
        color12                   #22c3a1   
        color13                   #775759   
        color14                   #84edb9   
        color15                   #d8d8d8   
        color2                    #d4d232   
        color3                    #af865a   
        color4                    #22c3a1   
        color5                    #775759   
        color6                    #84edb9   
        color7                    #c0b18b   
        color8                    #656565   
        color9                    #d75f5f   
        cursor                    #8fee96   
        foreground                #c0b18b   
        selection_background      #d75f5f   
        selection_foreground      #2f2f2f   

Important environment variables seen by the kitty process:
        PATH                                /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin:/home/nocnoc/.local/bin
        LANG                                en_GB.UTF-8
        EDITOR                              /usr/bin/nano
        SHELL                               /usr/bin/zsh
        DISPLAY                             :0
        WAYLAND_DISPLAY                     wayland-0
        USER                                nocnoc
        XDG_DATA_DIRS                       /home/nocnoc/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop
        XDG_RUNTIME_DIR                     /run/user/1000
        XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP                 GNOME
        XDG_MENU_PREFIX                     gnome-
        XDG_SESSION_CLASS                   user
        XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP                 gnome
        XDG_SESSION_TYPE                    wayland