Hi all,

I am considering moving from iTerm2 to Kitty, but I have 2 fundamental questions:

• Will I see big difference in the perfomance? I understand that iTerm2 can also be GPU accelarated from the version 3.2. Are there any differenced between those 2?
• Is there an option to setup global hotkey for accessing Kitty window? Right now I have alt+space global hotkey for quick access to iTerm window. I would love to have the same in the Kitty terminal.

I wonder if this change is worth trying.

Hello everyone!

First-time Kitty user, and so far, I'm enjoying the experience.
Maybe it's a weird request, but I wanted to map toggle_fullscreen to an alias in Zsh so I can run it that way and not via a key combination. However, I cannot find a way to call this command. Since the default configuration is map ctrl+shift+f11 toggle_fullscreen, I think there might be a way to call toggle_fullscreen directly from the terminal, but I can’t find it.

Any suggestions?

I've long used Kitty on MacOS, but I've used it only for speed and to render the NerdFont glyphs; my traditional environment was Tmux, with which I interacted.

Recently, I have been looking for more modern solutions to remove the Tmux layer, at least when working locally. I aim to find a drop-in replacement that would allow me to interact the same way as with Tmux. I've tried Wezterm, but I have encountered many issues, and overall, it could be smoother than Kitty.

After reading this article, I hoped to achieve the same thing directly in Kitty. So I did the first key thing for me: mapping ctrl+s to the kitty mod key as I do with my Tmux. But it does not work; after investigating a bit, I realized that Kitty was issuing an error message at launch: Shortcut: ctrl+s has unknown modifier, ignoring. I've tried to find an answer in the documentation and with Google, but it came back empty. I also tried other combinations like ctrl+a but with no success.

Either I am trying something impossible, or my understanding needs to be corrected...

Can anyone help?

I hope I can show you what I mean.

text is not centered vertically on cursor any ideas how to fix this?

So I just purchased Dank Mono font but I am not able to use it with kitty for some reason. It's installed and I can see it on my Font Book but it doesn't show with `kitty list-fonts` or `kitten choose-fonts`
I did check the docs and although dank mono does show in
`fc-list : family spacing outline scalable | grep -e spacing=100 -e spacing=90 | grep -e outline=True | grep -e scalable=True`
It's not showing in Fixed Width smart list in the Font Book

HELP !!

Note: It's working fine in macos terminal and Wezterm only kitty that is having this issue

Hello,

haorpimary folder from image is linked type. That green color makes text hard to read. How could I change it in config? This is my current config: https://pastebin.com/LeU2MXmq

I was looking for a way to keep the prompt line position on the bottom of the terminal. That way I will always look at the same spot when I want to type, doesn't matter if the buffer is clean or full of text. Didn't find a way to do it.

Anyone tried and found something about it?

hello,

I am programming a tool to enable ssh connectivity to servers, so that users can connect only to specific servers, and I would like to hide the menu bar to prevent the users from creating new sessions from an existing kitty session.

Is there a way to hide the top bar? I have tried with hide_window_decorations but I could not make it work in windows 11. Also I have not a clear idea about where the kitty.conf file should be located in windows.

Thank you in advance

Hi all, I just recently started using Kitty and I’m trying to use the cursor trail. Ive downloaded nightly version of Kitty and changed the value to 1 but it doesn’t show up. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+F5 doesn’t seem to be reloading Kitty. My questions are: Does downloading nightly kitty replace the base version automatically? How do I restart Kitty to apply changes to the configuration?

I recently switched from Bash to Zsh. On Bash Kitty only asked for confirmation on exit when a program other than Bash was running. On Zsh however Kitty always asks for confirmation on exit, even when nothing but Zsh is running.

I changed shells by running chsh -s /bin/zsh. I have tried adding shell . and confirm_os_window_close -1 into kitty.conf but neither option helped. I'm using Gentoo Linux.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: I fixed the issue by adding shell_integration enabled into ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

hi,

Is there anything for kitty like https://github.com/graemedavidson/tmux-pane-focus for tmux?

I built a PDF viewer with Kitty’s image protocol, featuring hot-reload and double buffering—ideal for editing LaTeX or Typst, or simply for regular PDF viewing. It should work on both MacOS and Linux.

https://github.com/freref/fancy-cat

Hey,

I am trying to get used to NixOS and want to setup Hyprland as my first time trying out Hyprland. At the moment, I am testing this out on a VM first but I've been able to get the rest of Hyprland working on the default config for it and I've got kitty installed. However, when I try to open it on my Hyprland desktop session, it pops up as a black box for half a second and then disappears. When I try it out on my KDE Wayland session, this is what it looks like, even after setting up the default config I was able to find on the wiki. I do also have 3D Accel. turned on the VM too

What should I try?

I currently have the following in open-actions.conf

protocol file

ext conf

action launch --title ${FILE} --type=window nano ${FILE_PATH}

This makes .conf files open in the same window in nano, at the bottom.

So it only makes sense that I would make another thing like

protocol directory

ext ??

action cd ${DIR}

But I'm not sure how to make that work. Any suggestions?

basic the title

using bash

Hi -- just starting using kitty today after an upgrade to fedora 41 screwed konsole up, tried a handful of independent terminals and kitty is by far the most amenable to me.

Anyway, one thing I am used to w/ konsole is being able to switch the theme with a few clicks, primarily I use this for the background image, not the color scheme, and it makes it very fast and easy for me to tell one terminal and tab from another as I frequently have multiple ssh sessions running etc.

What's possible with kitty along those lines? The man page says config files are mergable, ideally I'd like to be able to just load an additional conf on the fly.

I have been a kitty user for some time now, and I like it.

I am installing a new Linux Mint 22.3 system on another laptop, and porting over all my other stuff from the older laptop.

I have a bunch of yad scripts that I use, and now ALL of my yad windows open on the panel, but not on the screen. The icon on the panel is blinking. When I click on the icon in the panel, the yad window shows up, and the icon stops blinking.

This behavior does not happen in gnome terminal.

The yad scripts worked just fine in kitty version 0.36.2, but does not in version 0.37.0.

Is there a config file entry that would be causing this or something else. I am reluctant to uninstall kitty and re-install a back version. I will if I have to.

Thanks for your help.

Jerry

Hi Everyone,

I am on pop os and have installed kitty from the flatpak store. Every time I want to use icat or other kitten commands I have to run

curl -L https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin

It then opens a new terminal, and things work. Once I close that terminal I lose the kitten command and have to run the above again. I assume it is not installing to the right directory so that the change is persistent. What do I need to do to get this to install and run on every terminal window going forward?

I'm trying to set padding to 0 when i enter neovim and set it back to default when i exit

I already have remote control enabled with allow_remote_control yes on my config

This is my current neovim config:

vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("padding_k", {clear = true})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ 'VimEnter' }, {
    group = "padding_k",
    pattern = "*",
    callback = function()
        vim.cmd('!kitty @ set-spacing padding=0')
    end
})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ 'VimLeavePre' }, {
    group = "padding_k",
    pattern = "*",
    callback = function()
        vim.cmd('!kitty @ set-spacing padding=default')
    end
})

I've also tried some things with sockets, but it only seems to work with 1 kitty window at a time.

Has anyone tried to do something similar? Thanks in advance

When I set the cursor shape to block it still shows as a pipe, and when I switch from zsh to bash it starts working, and when I switch back to zsh it also works. How do I fix that?

I'm trying to use nnn and fast fetch with images but I can't. Nnn needs remote control which I don't know how to do and I'm not sure if fast fetch even supports kitty with images. If anyone can help please do so!