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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 michaelmrose »

guitarbill wrote: post #65
Rantenki wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Closed and locked with: > I'm widely known for my extreme stupidity. Loving the zero given approach from the maintainer. Installing now.

Kovid Goyal is infamous/known to be a bit toxic, see Calibre: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8213946 (and the setuid "issue": https://lwn.net/Articles/465311/ )

He seems to be sarcastic especially when needled, opinionated, sometimes incorrect, and willing to argue a point.

On the other hand he actually fixes things.

Even if you actually were paying money for his services, which most of us are not, which would you prefer an obsequious kind person who didn't fix your problem or a dick that did.

I would take the dick every day of the week.

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

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Post by bscphil »

a012 wrote: post #64

I tried it on MacOS (MBP retina) and damn, it renders text awfully.

Same problem here on Linux. It seems to be bypassing Freetype. Nearly unreadable on my 1080p screen. It may be fast and featureful, but the appearance of the GUI and text are currently pretty bad.

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

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Post by gravelc »

aumerle wrote: post #74
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-...

Thanks - missed that.

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

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Post by laumars »

murukesh_s wrote: post #50
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…

From a marketing perspective I was wondering how did you discover it one month back? Product hunt? or here itself ?

It's been meantioned on here a few times in conversation. That's how I stumbled across Kitty.

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

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Post by yason »

Why render with the GPU? I don't think I've seen a visually slow terminal emulator since 2000 and barely even in the 1990's.

Text rendering is basically just blitting cached glyph bitmaps into a buffer, and CPUs have been more than overly fast doing that for eons. And CPU rendering has none of the compatibility problems/quirks that GPUs have. I can fire up a Gnome Terminal onto an unaccelerated Vesa X11 display if my graphics card doesn't work or I haven't configured it yet.

For better responsivity I suppose a terminal that behaves like mosh would be a good approach. It would maintain the tty state in memory and only render the latest view, dropping the rendering of any intermediate diffs in the buffer. I would guess most terminal emulators do work like that these days but I haven't checked.

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

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Post by haberman »

Terminal emulators have tabs/windows, tmux has tabs/windows, vim has tabs/windows. All with different keyboard shortcuts and semantics.

I wish this were all unified into a single window/tab/keybinding model. That was easy to code against and write your own interactions for.

I keep hoping I'll see a boundary-pushing project like Kitty do something new in this space.

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

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Post by ilogik »

ricardobeat wrote: post #82
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

And most of it still works perfectly fine on an iPad Pro, in a completely new browser from the future. Good times!

On safari desktop and mobile, I get:

> 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

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

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Post by scolby33 »

haberman wrote: post #98

Terminal emulators have tabs/windows, tmux has tabs/windows, vim has tabs/windows. All with different keyboard shortcuts and semantics. I wish this were all unified into a single window/tab/keybinding model. That was easy to code against and write your own interactions for. I keep hoping I'll see a boundary-pushing project like Kitty do something new in this space.

vim-tmux-navigator[0] is probably the best thing I've installed in my terminal for transparently moving between splits. Using it has allowed switching splits to become so thoughtless that it's automatic as I move my eyes.

[0] https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator

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