kitty is a
free and open-source GPU-accelerated
terminal emulator for
Linux
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and
macOS
macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. Within the market of ...
focused on performance and features. kitty is written in a mix of
C and
Python programming languages. It provides GPU support. kitty shares its name with another program — KiTTY — a fork of
PuTTY
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for
Microsoft Windows.
Features
* Display images: when
ImageMagick installed, add to .bashrc
alias icat="kitty +kitten icat"
and use as "icat me.webp"
* Interactive Unicode characters input (), by name, code, recently used
* Supports true color, text formatting features
* Tiling of multiple windows and tabs
* Single config file
* Hyperlink clicks
* Mouse support (for example in
Vim
Vim means enthusiasm and vigor. It may also refer to:
* Vim (cleaning product)
* Vim Comedy Company, a movie studio
* Vim Records
* Vimentin, a protein
* "Vim", a song by Machine Head on the album ''Through the Ashes of Empires''
* Vim (text ed ...
)
* Multiple copy/paste buffers like in Vim
References
Free terminal emulators
X Window programs
Free software programmed in Python
Free software programmed in C
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