Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

Not to be confused with Kitty[0], a Putty fork. Also a terminal emulator!

[0] http://www.9bis.net/kitty/#!index.md

I really like kitty, but I always wonder how people can live without a scrollbar or smooth scrolling in general. Unfortunately that's a dealbreaker for me.

I've recently made a switch to Kitty from iterm2. I couldn't suffer general slowness and visible lag when using vim or nvim anymore. Various solutions and workarounds provided only minimal relief. With kitty the performance improvement was dramatic. Configuration is more involved (config file), but I've managed to set everything up as I'm used to in short time. I'm happy so far, but ymmv

Btw, if the author (Kovid Goyal) reads this: You really should update your homepage (https://kovidgoyal.net/). It gives me a warning:

> W A R N I N G! Your browser is not supported by this site.I cannot guarantee that things will work as they should. Consider downloading either Mozilla >=1.4 or Internet Explorer >= 6

And it states:

> It has been tested on Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla 1.4.

I was not quite sure if this was a joke, or if the homepage was really not updated for such a long time (it says "Created by Kovid Goyal © 2003").

Anyway, for minimal work, I think you can simply remove the warning, and this statement about IE6/Mozilla 1.4, because as far as I can see, everything works fine.

Edit: Ah, in the 2018 thread, someone noticed the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17924093

I've been using Kitty with Xonsh shell on Qtile dekstop and Qutebrowser browser for over a year now. What a time to be a Python dev!