kitty (terminal emulator)
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Original author(s) | Kovid Goyal |
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Initial release | 2017 |
Stable release | 0.21.1[1] ![]() |
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Written in | C, Python |
Operating system | Linux, macOS |
License | GNU General Public License, version 3.0 |
Website | sw![]() |
kitty is a free and open-source GPU-accelerated[2][3] terminal emulator focused on performance and features. kitty is written in a mix of C and Python programming languages, and it is one of few terminal emulators with GPU support along with Alacritty. kitty shares its name with another program — KiTTY — a fork of PuTTY for Windows.[4]
Features[]
- Display images: when ImageMagick installed, add to .bashrc and use as "icat me.webp"[5][6]
alias icat="kitty +kitten icat"
- 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[]
- ^ "Release 0.21.1". 14 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "kitty - hardware-accelerated terminal emulator". LinuxLinks (in British English). 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
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Kumar, Nitesh. "Best Terminal Emulators for Linux – Linux Hint" (in American English). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ "KiTTY". www.9bis.net. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ "icat - Display images in the terminal — kitty 0.19.3 documentation". sw.kovidgoyal.net. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
alias icat="kitty +kitten icat"
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Kitty terminal emulator". aliquote.org. 2020-08-16. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ "Unicode input — kitty 0.19.3 documentation". sw.kovidgoyal.net. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ Gautam, Pratik (2020-12-22). "Kitty - A Powerful GPU Based Terminal Emulator". LinOxide (in American English). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
Categories:
- Free terminal emulators
- X Window programs
- Free software programmed in Python
- Free software programmed in C