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...
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
- Keyboard focused
Features
- GPU based
- Font Ligature Support
- Split-screen view
- Tiling Layouts
- Command line interface
- Full keyboard shortcuts
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Syntax Highlighting
Kitty terminal News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Kitty terminal
Kitty 0.48 adds vertical tabs, improved graphics protocol, better peformance, and moreKitty 0.48 brings several significant updates to this GPU-based terminal emulator. Notably, it now ...
- POX published news article about Kitty terminal
Kitty terminal 0.46 adds smooth momentum-based scrolling, tab reordering & split resizingKitty 0.46, an open source GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, is now available for Linux, macOS, an...
- POX published news article about Kitty terminal
Kitty 0.43 adds session management support, new protocol for multiple cursors, and moreGPU-based terminal emulator kitty 0.43 introduces major enhancements for users needing flexible wor...
Recent activities
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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.
Kitty terminal information
Developed by
Kovid Goyal Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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Comments and Reviews
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).
vibe coded alacritty clone with useless security vulnerabilities, i mean features. Oh, also "under GPL" despite AI generated content not being protected by any copyrights, therefore public domain.
It's honestly difficult to write a detailed review of kitty, as I have not experienced a single issue with it. Performance is great, the graphics protocol is well-supported, and customization is easy. I've been using it as my default terminal emulator for months, and I don't foresee this changing.
I have been using it on multiple different devices. On my mac and my linux desktop. It is really performant. A nice default gui too and the default keybinds are really good too. Also has a emoji picker.
By far the best terminal emulator I've used. Beautiful, all while remaining quick and snappy.
Performant, simple, all keyboard based. The only thing I miss is the support out of the box on remote servers.
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