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Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by ryenus »

adamch wrote: post #33

I've been using Kitty for a month now. I really like it. It's slightly less usable out of the box than iTerm 2. The default shortcuts are very counterintuitive (no CMD T for new tab or CMD W to close tab). But editing the preferences is straightforward. I prefer it to iTerm because it's so. Damn. Fast. It's the only software (besides Sublime) I run on my laptop that actually feels like it's using the 40 years of tran…

Have you managed to configure it to behave similar to iTerm 2 in terms of keyboard shortcuts? Would you please share your config?

One thing is, I don't get its layout, is it possible to create a vertical/horizontal split like what (shift+)cmd+d does in iTerm 2?

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by gravelc »

Wow! Really like it. The windows organisation is well done. Usually just use whatever comes with Ubuntu, but this is much nicer. As an aside, had to add TERM=xterm-256color to my Raspberry Pi's .bashrc to get it to play nice when I SSH in from Kitty (otherwise commands like 'clear' don't work).

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by beefsack »

the_duke wrote: post #66
ptman wrote: post #45

How does this compare to alacritty?

Alacritty is quite buggy and not very maintained, the author doesn't put a lot of work in except the occasional small merge. (They still haven't finished the scrollback support branch that's been open for ages). I've switched to kitty and am much happier.

This is less of an issue if you use a multiplexer like tmux, so how appropriate Alacritty is depends on how you use it.

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by aumerle »

gravelc wrote: post #72

Wow! Really like it. The windows organisation is well done. Usually just use whatever comes with Ubuntu, but this is much nicer. As an aside, had to add TERM=xterm-256color to my Raspberry Pi's .bashrc to get it to play nice when I SSH in from Kitty (otherwise commands like 'clear' don't work).

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq.html#i-get-errors-about-...

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by suspectdoubloon »

kimat wrote: post #69
heroprotagonist wrote: post #2

I was surprised that kitty became 'GPU based'. Then I realized it's an entirely different tool than the kitty fork of putty. I do wish creators of these tools would search for existing names to see if they are already in use. I would not mind if they were tools with sufficiently different purpose. But this just confuses users (and potential users) of either one.

9th issue on their tracker: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9

Looks like its unlikely to get changed, as stated in the last comment of the thread by the owner.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9#issuecomment-41...

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by natvert »

fcarraldo wrote: post #7

Not affiliated, but recently switched to Kitty from iTerm 2 on OS X on my main at-work MacBook Pro and I’ve been very impressed. It’s snappy, easy to configure and works well with my zsh/tmux setup with a few tweaks. I would love to drop tmux in favor of kitty’s sessions and multiplexing, but old habits die hard, so it will take some time.

What tweaks?

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by dacox »

jjcm wrote: post #68

Side note, the author's home page is an absolute relic from the past: https://kovidgoyal.net , including things like provisions for 56k modems, iframes, detection scripts for IE3 and AOL, and other gems. It even looks like he has his own pre-jquery compliance library written about 18 years ago: https://kovidgoyal.net/scripts/VisualDocumentAPI.js

> DHTML

takes me back!

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by the_duke »

beefsack wrote: post #73
the_duke wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alacritty is quite buggy and not very maintained, the author doesn't put a lot of work in except the occasional small merge. (They still haven't finished the scrollback support branch that's been open for ages). I've switched to kitty and am much happier.

This is less of an issue if you use a multiplexer like tmux, so how appropriate Alacritty is depends on how you use it.

True.

I use i3 (a tiling WM) though, so tmux is redundant for me unless I work on remote machines.

And I really don't want tmux running on top just for scrolling. It hurts performance quite a bit.

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Post by mseri »

the_duke wrote: post #66
ptman wrote: post #45

How does this compare to alacritty?

Alacritty is quite buggy and not very maintained, the author doesn't put a lot of work in except the occasional small merge. (They still haven't finished the scrollback support branch that's been open for ages). I've switched to kitty and am much happier.

Is it? I have been using the scrollback branch for months without problems (although not on mac)
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