Kitty terminal
Super fast, GPU and OpenGL based terminal emulator with tiling support
What is Kitty terminal?
Kitty ( not to be confused with 
KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode and font ligature support.
FEATURES
- Supports all modern terminal features: graphics (images), unicode, true-color, OpenType ligatures, mouse protocol, focus tracking, bracketed paste and more.
- Supports tiling multiple terminal windows side by side in different layouts, no need for
tmux . - Can be controlled from scripts or the shell prompt, even over SSH.
- Extensible via Kittens framework for creating small terminal apps.
- Supports startup sessions to let you set layout, working directories and apps to run at startup.
- Cross-platform: works on Linux and macOS and trivially portable to other Unix-like platforms.
- Allows you to open the scrollback buffer in a separate window using arbitrary apps.
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Kitty terminal information
- Developed byKovid Goyal
- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.7
- Alternatives71 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 18,056 Stars
- 809 Forks
- 24 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Terminal Emulator
- console
Category
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Terminal • Lightweight, Intuitive and Minimalistic software for UNIX-like systemsRecent user activities on Kitty terminal
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After using iTerm2 for years, i found that recent version are consuming around 60% GPU when just running htop. After switching to kitty, it's all normal and blazing fast. Big community. Found my answers after few minutes. Happy with that switch
Performant, simple, all keyboard based. The only thing I miss is the support out of the box on remote servers.
Font ligature support right at the terminal level so Vim and other terminal apps can use them. Plus, no window bloat to detract from work but it's still customizable via config file (Ctrl-Shift-F2).