Kitty Terminal Emulator

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"The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator"

A place for discussion and questions about the kitty terminal emulator.

kitty feature overview:

Fast: Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load
Capable: Graphics, with images and animations
Scriptable: Control from scripts or the shell
Composable: Programmable tabs, splits and multiple layouts to manage windows
Cross-platform (see Supported OS below)
Innovative: Terminal graphics protocol and more

Rules:

No NSFW
be respectful (we were all noobs once)
try to keep discussions in the ballpark of kitty even if it's just to contrast another emulator with it

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Supported OS:

Linux
macOS
Various BSDs

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Kitty 0.33.0 released - Changelog (sw.kovidgoyal.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cheetah speed with a redesigned render loop and a 2x faster escape code parser that uses SIMD CPU vector instruction to parse data in parallel (#7005)
A new benchmark kitten (kitten __benchmark__) to measure terminal throughput performance
Graphics protocol: Add a new delete mode for deleting images whose ids fall within a range. Useful for bulk deletion (#7080)
Keyboard protocol: Fix the Enter, Tab and Backspace keys generating spurious release events even when report all keys as escape codes is not set (#7136)
macOS: The command line args from macos-launch-services-cmdline are now prefixed to any args from open --args rather than overwriting them (#7135)
Allow specifying where the new tab is created for detach_window (#7134)
hints kitten: The option to set the text color for hints now allows arbitrary colors (#7150)
icat kitten: Add a command line argument to override terminal window size detection (#7165)
A new action toggle_tab to easily switch to and back from a tab with a single shortcut (#7203)
When clearing terminal add a new type to_cursor_scroll which can be used to clear to prompt while moving cleared lines into the scrollback
Fix a performance bottleneck when dealing with thousands of small images (#7080)
kitten @ ls: Return the timestamp at which the window was created (#7178)
hints kitten: Use default editor rather than hardcoding vim to open file at specific line (#7186)
Remote control: Fix --match argument not working for @ls, @send-key, @set-background-image (#7192)
Keyboard protocol: Do not deliver a fake key release events on OS window focus out for engaged modifiers (#7196)
Ignore startup_session when kitty is invoked with command line options specifying a command to run (#7198)
Box drawing: Specialize rendering for the Fira Code progress bar/spinner glyphs

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

How do you run the benchmarks? kitten __benchmark__ says "__benchmark__ is not a known subcommand for kitten"

Edit: I see now that the changelog says that the benchmark kitten was added in this release