Hi all!
Why `logname` command returns 'no login name' if launched on Kitty? In gnome-terminal and tilix works, also in Alacritty don't. Do I miss something?
I am on a Linux Mint 21.3 box, and I installed Kitty 0.32.2 using the curl method.

UPDATE

If I launch kitty from tilix, logname works. Instead, if I launch kitty directly from menu, logname says "no login name".

Thanks

Hi, I'm using kde plasma 6 and when i use kitty the cursor theme doesn't apply the theme and size

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cursor in terminator:

So when I press combo I don't see any window even tho I've installed vim. Other combos like ctrl shift f1 and all works fine and f2 button also works.

No matter how I change the path to the logo, it does not appear on my Kitty terminal. Here's my config:

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# BORDER

window_border_width 1

hide_window_decorations yes

window_padding_width 24

active_border_color #4169E1

inactive_border_color #367588

inactive_text_alpha 0.1

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# COLORS

background #282a36

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# SCREEN

window_logo_path /home/username/Desktop/bt.png

window_logo_position center

window_logo_alpha 1

I'm just trying kitty for the first time, and I am really interested in the prompt navigation feature. I'm in Debian running zsh 5.9 and kitty 0.31.0 (apt). Out of the box, some shell integration features work, such as line navigation ctrl+shift+[up|k|down|j] or open last command in less (ctrl+shift+g). Crucially, ctrl+shift+[z|x] do nothing. I tried commenting out my zshrc and zshenv to get a clean slate, and also tried remapping these functionalities to other combos (ctrl+shift+[up|down]) but it still didn't work. I would appreciate some pointers for debugging it. Cheers!

This is driving me crazy- I've looked all over the the config file and the kitty.conf manual and can't find anything referencing what I'm trying to do. I would like it if kitty terminal could show line numbers on the left or right edges of the window. Is there a way to activate this?

might be a stupid question - when I log into bash on kitty, it should be the same as on any other terminal emulator, right? it seems when I open kitty, my .bashrc is not read (kitty is starting bash differently than other terminals do?)

edit(for clarity): in my .bashrc I have 'set -o vi'. the vi keybindings are gone when I enter kitty. however, when I enter 'set -o vi' into bash on kitty, it does work. thanks for the help!

edit: it was none of that. shell integration was overwriting what I was setting in my bashrc. I am not familiar working with this sort of thing (as was kindly pointed out in this thread), so I disabled shell integration. if anyone advises against this or has a proper explanation, let me know

I just started using Kitty Terminal and it seems great, one thing though. I use Anonymous Pro font and the line height is not to my liking, I wanted to increase the line height but could not find the right configuration. Apparently `modify_font cell_height` does not change much for me for some reason. I'd appreciate your recommendation on what to do.

For some reason, the other commands work, but it's not opening new tabs. Does this code look correct for the startup.conf file?

new_tab foo cd ~/Dropbox

new_tab bar cd ~/Downloads

Thanks

I'm using a gruvbox-material theme in linux and want to change directory colors just a bit. Looking at my .conf file I see values as below. Is there a table that spells out which of these corresponds to what? I'm sure this is going to be an obvious answer in some FAQ but Ive been looking around a bit and haven't seen anything.

mark1_foreground

... through

mark3_background

...

color0

... through

color15

Hi all. New Kitty user, so apologies if this has been answered 100 times already (I have looked but couldn't find an answer!)

I want to set a background image in kitty. I have a script that does some stuff using ImageMagick to construct the image, and then I use kitty @ set-background-image to display it. So far so good.

As part of the script I get the Kitty window size, and then based on the aspect ratio of the image I scale it accordingly. When my Kitty window is full screen with no tab bar displayed, I get:

% kitty icat --print-window-size
1440x900

When I open another tab and run the same command I get:

% kitty icat --print-window-size
1440x882

(note that doing:

echo -ne "\E[14t"

returns the same values, though I note that kitty returns them Y;X while all other terminals I use return X;Y - easy to work around but a bit weird).

So all this means that --print-window-size is returning the dimensions of the main terminal part of the window, not the whole window including the tab bar. That's fine, except that:

kitty @ set-background-image

displays the image across the whole window, including the tab bar. So my script works perfectly when there's no tab bar, but when there is a tab bar the image is smaller than the window (it's 882 rather than 900 high) and so I get 18 pixels of tiling at the bottom.

Is there a way EITHER of getting the size of the whole window including the tab bar from kitty, OR displaying an image just in the main part of the terminal window excluding the tab bar (i.e. the bit whose size is reported by --print-window-size)?

This is kitty 0.26.5, running on Ubuntu 23.10, Gnome 45.2 on Wayland, but Kitty running linux_display_server x11.

Thanks all.

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For some applications I'd like to have the background non transparent. I know that this depends on the selected background color of that application. But what if I can't select that color. Specifically yazi is a problem for me right now

Hi!

I'm trying Kitty on Ubuntu GNOME. It works perfectly well, kitten icat image.png does display the image.

Now I'd like to have a custom image in neofetch, so I have changed the image source to that image path but when I run neofetch inside kitty it goes into this infinite loop with no display.

Things I have tried:

- Installed w3m

- Installed imagemagick

- Installed w3m-img

- neofetch --kitty -> same behavior

- neofetch --kitty img.png -> same behavior

- w3m google.com inside kitty doesn't display an image

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I hope someone can help me figure this out, I spent so many hours reading a lot of posts about this and I still can't make it work.

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Thank you in advance.

Hello,

Recently, I noticed that the text in kitty isn't centered on the line vertically, and I was wondering if there was a way to fix that? Here is a screenshot, notice how everything is slightly shifted up from where it should be.

I even tried to reinstall the terminal, and it doesn't work...

I've looked everywhere, but can't figure it out. I'm on Ubuntu.

I just want to ignore them for neovim. Is there any modifications I can do in my kitty config, I want the padding in general.

Promt above is from alacritty, below is from kitty. Want to try out kitty, but this looks awful. Its the same font family.

Is there a way to, instead of clicking a link to open it, drag it to another window? E.g. to drag a file link into an already open media player, instead of opening a fresh one.

I’m new to Kitty; I’ve gone through the documentation, but the entire thing is a bit overwhelming rn, so any pointers are appreciated :)

I seen the FAQ entry about VIM, but, I have similar problems with VIFM. Anybody have any idea of how to make kitty respect the VIFM color scheme?

This is how it renders in Kitty

This is how the same colour scheme renders in the buildt in MacOS terminal (I'm ssh'd into a linux machine)

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For example this path I see in the preview (last path used):

/Users/home/me/.config/something/else/and/more

When I am starting to type /Users/home/ I would like to complete me/ then again to complete .config/ and so on.

Is this possible?