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…project that I think everyone should support. I'd love if they a better icon on Mac OS though. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

comment by slowin · 2026-10-07 · in No new Ghostty updates since March

…has almost 18,000 commits. So does https://github.com/gnachman/iterm2 . So does https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty . > why do you assume that now there's no more debt? I don't. Like all software, you try to ratchet into better and better

comment by hombre_fatal · 2026-09-05 · in There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

…it's been an issue since ~2015. Fun fact I learnt in this, Goyal is totally open to changing it ( https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/661 ), it's simply no-one changed it. I'll see if I can, thanks for the correct call-out.

comment by moritonal · 2026-04-17 · in FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer

…ships with their own terminfo nowadays. Apparently this is to work around the ncurses maintainer. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2773 https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/879 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/…

comment by matheusmoreira · 2026-03-03 · in Build your own Command Line with ANSI escape codes (2016)

Kitty has poor security https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2084

comment by goodpoint · 2026-03-01 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

…oyal.net/kitty/kittens/quick-access-termina... [1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens_intro/ [2] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/9330

comment by jcgl · 2026-03-01 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

Similarly kitty is at 0.44.0 [0], zutty at 0.16.0 [1] 0. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/releases/tag/v0.44.0 1. https://git.hq.sig7.se/zutty.git

comment by moderation · 2025-11-05 · in State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions

…Protocol supported by iTerm2 and WezTerm. Kovid documented his rationale at some length here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/33

comment by mechanicum · 2025-11-03 · in State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions

…towards whoever points this antifeature of Kitty out makes it all the more suspicious for me. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544

comment by alt187 · 2025-10-20 · in Using Emacs as a TUI

You might not want to have vendor lock-in on a terminal with opt-out telemetry. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3802

comment by alt187 · 2025-10-20 · in Using Emacs as a TUI

…first time I tried Kitty, I was in the middle of work when I discovered Arabic support was broken - https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/536 . I simply launched the macOS Terminal app, attached to the same tmux session, verified my…

comment by meitham · 2025-08-02 · in Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

For Kitty I posted it on https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/8752 , maybe we'll learn more!

comment by nh2 · 2025-06-25 · in Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

…And the dismissive and defensive response from the author just rubbed me the wrong way. [1]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/330

comment by imiric · 2025-02-22 · in Suckless.org: software that sucks less

…impressive when you remember that the vast majority of the work is done by one guy (Kovid Goyal). https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.239% vs 0.137% https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.729% vs 0.317%…

comment by homebrewer · 2025-02-02 · in Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library

…The author smuggles opt-out telemetry and is suspiciously abrasive towards users pointing this out. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544

comment by alt187 · 2025-01-03 · in iTerm2 critical security release

…happen, and Goyal with his customary charm is very hostile to the idea of correcting his mistake: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/7749 Short version: as defined, Mode 16 can deliver many megabytes of CSI parameters before the…

comment by samatman · 2025-01-01 · in Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title

…( https://github.com/wavetermdev/waveterm ) - Hyber ( https://github.com/zeit/hyper ) - Kitty ( https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty ) - Rio ( https://github.com/raphamorim/rio ) - Tabby ( https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby ) - Wezterm(…

comment by elashri · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0

…as mine but vim works too) so you easily search the terminal output and copy/paste from it. I use # https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/719#issuecomment-... scrollback_pager nvim -u ~/.config/kitty/kitty-scrollback-pager.vimrc -c…

comment by skrtskrt · 2024-11-26 · in Warp terminal – no more login required

I think you'll enjoy https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2084

comment by yencabulator · 2024-09-12 · in The Modern CLI Renaissance

The "security" practices of kitty are dubious: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544

comment by goodpoint · 2024-09-11 · in The Modern CLI Renaissance

This one is the straw that broke the camels back for me: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/4965 "Are you sure you want to close this window", meant to only trigger in interactive scenarios like ssh or htop, triggered on the…

comment by port19 · 2024-08-13 · in Okay, I Like WezTerm

…main draw to it isn't about persistence... Oh, and kitty phones home If you want drama: tmux: - https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/391 Phone Home: - https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544 -…

comment by godelski · 2024-08-13 · in Okay, I Like WezTerm

…had traction, so now we have two competing ones; but that's my complaint, not the poster's). https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/7711 Kovid then decides to pick a fight by being abrupt and a bit snarky in his response. Again: the…

comment by saurik · 2024-08-13 · in Okay, I Like WezTerm

The first two top results: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/#i-get-errors-about-the-... https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/3873 Basically it is how it presents itself as xterm-kitty and then how to make others recognize…

comment by KolenCh · 2024-08-13 · in Okay, I Like WezTerm

…long-term, despite implicitly asking the original maintainers to do the exact same thing. [1] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/graphs/contributors

comment by fl0ki · 2024-05-25 · in Tmux is worse-is-better

…The first time I heard about kitty was via a comment about not implementing Sixel support: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2511#issuecomment... "Terminal multiplexers are a bad idea" sounds just like Sixel being "an inferior…

comment by omoikane · 2024-05-25 · in Tmux is worse-is-better

…improved the state of the terminal emulation with their new keyboard and graphic protocols [2]. [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2481 [1] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544 [2]…

comment by skywal_l · 2024-05-22 · in Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

i do prefer kitty[0] if i want a modern terminal emulator [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

comment by la_oveja · 2024-05-22 · in Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

…mac port?). Too many terminals are far too bloated. And boy... do I not need this bullshit[3] [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/391 [1] https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot [2] https://mitchellh.com/ghostty [3]…

comment by godelski · 2024-04-16 · in Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images

…because you don't have sudo access on the machine. Preferably installs without network access. [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/391

comment by godelski · 2024-04-16 · in Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images

And kitty is much faster according to this: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2701#issuecomment... Also typometer based measurements also on Linux. Shrug.

comment by aumerle · 2024-04-08 · in How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?

…indicated in the first word of its github description, and the owner is kind of an ass about it https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/6481 .

comment by reyqn · 2024-04-08 · in How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?

More recent example: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/879

comment by matheusmoreira · 2024-02-14 · in Non-code contributions to open source

No kitty is not a fork of putty. Thats a different kitty. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty vs https://github.com/cyd01/KiTTY

comment by aumerle · 2024-01-14 · in Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app

…about its design choices, which contains in turn discussion about all the problems with sixel https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/33#issuecomment-2...

comment by aumerle · 2023-12-07 · in Terminal graphics protocol

…[2]: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/20/4 [3]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/defa2e29ac1eacd13...

comment by dgl · 2023-10-20 · in "<ESC>[31M"? ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs

…$TERM is set. Mind you, I was using the latest tmux at that time. tmux 3.2? Here's the issue I had: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3018 Looks like it should be fixed on a very recent tmux; otherwise this MIGHT help: set-option…

comment by mfontani · 2023-10-08 · in Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator

Kitty has the wrong width: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3810 It doesn't immediately overwrite the emoji with the next character, but the cursor position is off, which leads to wrapping problems down the line.

comment by Sesse__ · 2023-08-08 · in Terminal Support for Emoji

…who will render them, but I haven't seen any actually get the width calculations correct. (E.g., https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3810 .) Part of the problem is that it really messes up the idea of a rectangular grid of base…

comment by Sesse__ · 2023-08-08 · in Terminal Support for Emoji

kitty added support for v3 a couple of years ago: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3410

comment by aumerle · 2023-05-27 · in The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)

…There is even v3. Kitty refused to implement v3 because v3 appeared even more unstable: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2814#issuecomment... The wayland input method protocol is stuck at v1, and DEs/applications disagree about…

comment by hkmaxpro · 2023-05-26 · in The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)

…itself, all started because they just didn't line up when using what the fonts supplied. * https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/16 * https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/28b84a2d5b2720b88fd...

comment by JdeBP · 2023-05-24 · in Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

…demands of Kitty, it is too insecure internally. I need to write a Rust library or something. [1] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2511 [2] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2511#issuecomment...

comment by ziotom78 · 2023-05-14 · in Are We Sixel Yet

…it. At the specific size, it should use the bitmap font. At other sizes ... , well, don't do that. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/97#issuecomment-5...

comment by ksherlock · 2023-05-11 · in BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

…this, it is no longer your project only. An example PR (there are a few others equally concerning): https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544

comment by razemio · 2023-04-16 · in Latest Kitty terminal release features SRGB correct linear gamma blending

kitty is also worth a look, though it doesn't run on Windows: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/releases I used iTerm2 on macOS for many years and still keep it around, but switched to kitty as my daily…

comment by michaelsbradley · 2023-03-13 · in WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator written in Rust

…for this stuff, and is much more performant than anything based on vte (like gnome-terminal). https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2022-11-16 · in Libgrapheme: A simple freestanding C99 library for Unicode

…Other stuff worth a look includes: Tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux Kitty: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty I'm sure there's lots of other stuff I don't know about as well.

comment by klint · 2022-09-13 · in A look at various trends shaping the future of the command line

…has capability based security for remote control with public key crypto to keep the data safe: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/5320 I suggest you find a better place to move the goalposts in your attempts to smear and…

comment by aumerle · 2022-08-16 · in Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)

…e.g. Chrome does. But yes, it's obvious the Kitty author has no interest in making it more secure ( https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2084 ) and it's obviously you take discussions about improving software security as attacks on…

comment by yencabulator · 2022-08-16 · in Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)