kitty

A cool terminal emulator!

Various:

• Browse last output: ctrl+shift+g
  • Hold ctrl+shift and right-click on any command output in the scrollback to view it in a pager
• Browse scrollback: ctrl+shift+h
• Jump to the previous/next prompt in the scrollback (ctrl+shift+z / ctrl+shift+x)

Tabs:

• New tab: ctrl+shift+t
• Close tab: ctrl+shift+q
• Next tab: ctrl+shift+right
• Previous tab: ctrl+shift+left

Windows:

• New window: ctrl+shift+enter
• Close window: ctrl+shift+w
• Next window: ctrl+shift+] or ctrl+alt+→
• Previous window: ctrl+shift+[ or ctrl+alt+←

Plugins:

• Kitty search kitten: ctrl+shift+/

It’s better to install Kitty in a folder accessible to all users (like /opt). And edit visudo to preserve TERMINFO env variable, because backspace and other keys won’t work properly.

sudo apt install kitty-terminfo does smth on remote machines(?)

• Opening URLs is slow (~ 1s)

# Sublime Text sample build config

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"build_systems":
	[
		{
			"working_dir": "$project_path",
			"name": "Run in kitty",
			"shell_cmd": "kitty-socket.fish \"cd $project_path && make && ./3DViewer\n\"",
			// "shell_cmd": "kitty --hold sh -c \"make && ./3DViewer\""
		}
	]

kitty-socket.fish:

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#!/usr/bin/env fish

set SOCK "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/kitty.sock"

if test -S $SOCK
	kitty @ --to "unix:$SOCK" focus-window
else
	kitty --config ~/.config/kitty/kitty-mariana.conf --listen-on="unix:$SOCK" &; disown;
	while not test -S "$SOCK";
		sleep 0.1;
	end
end

# kitty @ --to "unix:$SOCK" send-text "make -f $PWD/Makefile && $PWD/3DViewer\n"
kitty @ --to "unix:$SOCK" send-text $argv

• Made Mariana theme (used this as a source, some colors seem to be a bit off). Now using Ayu theme, very cool and good contrast!
• Mastering kitty terminal - advanced kitty usage