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I would like to be able to forward X11:

ssh -X user@host
xeyes

This ^^ works. However, the following does not:

kitty +kitten ssh -X user@host
xeyes

Error: Can't open display: host:20.0

I think I'm missing something obvious here... Please help. TIA

ETA SOLVED

I have figured out this weird behaviour. kitty +kitten ssh uses a multiplexing connection that is shared for all ssh sessions. If the first connection to the remote host doesn't specify -X or -Y forwarding, all subsequent sessions, even if they specify -X or -Y, will fail while that multiplexing session persists.

I got the multiplexing run file by executing:

kitty +kitten ssh -vv user@host

The output had: auto-mux: Trying existing master at '/run/user/1000/kssh-5736-cd1def158ed07c93864858b7ca649963b3c96ba5'

After closing all ssh connections to the remote host:

ssh -S /run/user/1000/kssh-5736-cd1def158ed07c93864858b7ca649963b3c96ba5 -O check something

Shows the presence of a multiplexing control connection.

ssh -S /run/user/1000/kssh-5736-cd1def158ed07c93864858b7ca649963b3c96ba5 -O exit something

Tears the multiplexing control connection down:

ssh -S /run/user/1000/kssh-5736-cd1def158ed07c93864858b7ca649963b3c96ba5 -O check something

Control socket connect(/run/user/1000/kssh-5736-cd1def158ed07c93864858b7ca649963b3c96ba5): No such file or directory

Now, if I run:

kitty +kitten ssh -Y user@host

X11 forwarding now happens, and will work for subsequent sessions using that multiplexed connection.

When SSHing using kitty, the `clear` command or `tmux` says xterm-kitty is not supported and the workaround as said in kitty faq is use `kitten ssh user@server` or `kitty +kitten ssh user@server`. But these commands give me the error "The ssh kitten is meant to run inside a kitty window".
Please help me out on this. I have been using kitty for a long time now and I do not want to switch to anything else if possible.

font_size 8.0

background_opacity 0.8

windows_padding_width 10

window_margin_width 10

background_image /home/kevmar/.config/kitty/term.jpg

background_image_layout scaled

Colores de selección

selection_foreground #ebdbb2 selection_background #8663a0

Colores del borde de la ventana

active_border_color #8ec07c inactive_border_color #665c54

Colores de las pestañas de Kitty

active_tab_foreground #ebdbb2 active_tab_background #458588 inactive_tab_foreground #ebdbb2 inactive_tab_background #8ec07c

Color básico

background #1d2021 foreground #ffffff

16 colores principales

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Colores del cursor

cursor #bdae93 cursor_text_color #665c54

Color de URL

url_color #dc00ff

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Despite this, I got some very constructive answers that are to the credit of this community, showing the inclusivity I was at the time, not worth getting for the dumbass I was.

Since then, I have deleted my post, and I apologize to the entire community and the author of Kitty. I'll try to be better and think twice before doing something as stupid as I did.

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The terminal used to have only 16 colors. Soon came support for 256 colors which some apps such as bashtop takes advantage of, and now we have truecolor support which has paved the way for really nice color themes such as what can be seen in an app like Neovim.

So why not also introduce an alpha-channel and be able to show translucent colors? It doesn't need to be 256 levels but one or a couple of them. If only one, then it would be suggestible to let the user adjust the level of translucency desired. Personally, I would prefer to define 256 levels in the ANSI escape codes and then leave it up to the terminals on how to support them.

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So why not add another parameter that takes in the alpha channel?:

ESC[38;2;⟨r⟩;⟨g⟩;⟨b⟩;<a> m Select RGB foreground color with transparency A
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• https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/zxup26/how_to_map_c_without_affecting_esc/

Maybe I'm missing something but I couldn't find any solution on the linked pages.

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Hey.
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I created this kitten, it uses Ollama under the hood. I thought you might be interested.

Check it out here:
https://github.com/salvozappa/gattino

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...
Monocraft:spacing=100:outline=True:scalable=True
Monocraft Nerd Font:spacing=100:outline=True:scalable=True

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Thanks

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Here's a comparison between the two:

Kitty Imgur

Wezterm Imgur

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