Kitty_(terminal_emulator)

kitty (terminal emulator)

kitty (terminal emulator)

Terminal emulator

kitty is a free and open-source GPU-accelerated[2][3] terminal emulator for Linux and macOS focused on performance and features. kitty is written in a mix of C and Python programming languages. It provides GPU support. kitty shares its name with another program — KiTTY — a fork of PuTTY for Microsoft Windows.[4]

For other uses, see Kitty (disambiguation).
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Features

  • Display images: when ImageMagick installed, add to .bashrc alias icat="kitty +kitten icat" and use as "icat me.webp"[5][6]
  • Interactive Unicode characters input (ctrl+shift+u), by name, code, recently used[7]
  • Supports true color, text formatting features
  • Tiling of multiple windows and tabs
  • Single config file
  • Hyperlink clicks
  • Mouse support (for example in Vim)
  • Multiple copy/paste buffers like in Vim[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "Release 0.34.1". 19 April 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  2. [2]
    "kitty - hardware-accelerated terminal emulator". LinuxLinks. 2019-10-11. Retrieved 2021-03-09. It offers GPU-acceleration combined with a wide feature set. It's targeted at power keyboard users. It's billed as a modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator
  3. [3]
    Kumar, Nitesh. "Best Terminal Emulators for Linux – Linux Hint". Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  4. [4]
    "KiTTY". www.9bis.net. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  5. [5]
    "icat - Display images in the terminal — kitty 0.19.3 documentation". sw.kovidgoyal.net. Retrieved 2021-03-09. alias icat="kitty +kitten icat"
  6. [6]
    "Kitty terminal emulator". aliquote.org. 2020-08-16. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  7. [7]
    "Unicode input — kitty 0.19.3 documentation". sw.kovidgoyal.net. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  8. [8]
    Gautam, Pratik (2020-12-22). "Kitty - A Powerful GPU Based Terminal Emulator". LinOxide. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
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