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…/tmp/.X11-unix/X0. That sounds fun. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/#the-trans... https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/5541e3c2ff441aea319...

comment by yencabulator · 2022-08-15 · in Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)

…only 'crime' was being blunt with a bug report around eleven years ago Here's something from 2018: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9#issuecomment-41...

comment by Chris2048 · 2022-07-11 · in New in Calibre 6.0

What makes you think that other terminals like https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty or https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty can't catch-up in features? For one, closed-source is a non starter to many and I only see this trend going up.…

comment by hu3 · 2022-04-05 · in Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

…fast, but I tried it out and spawning a terminal was taking .5-1 second! I looked it up and found https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/330 where the dev says: > that's just python interpreter startup time So... The answer is just…

comment by stonewareslord · 2022-04-03 · in Vim Color Schemes

AFAICT he bluntly closed the issue that asks for CJK input support in kitty. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/462 I understand there might be technical difficulties but his attitude is disappointingly bad.

comment by arsdragonfly · 2022-03-24 · in Kitty: The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator

Nope. KiTTY came first, and the issue of name collision has been raised with the author of Kitty - https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9

comment by genocidicbunny · 2022-03-24 · in Kitty: The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator

You can configure kitty to open the entire scrollback buffer in an editor or a pager(less/nvim etc). https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/719

comment by jck · 2022-01-23 · in Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

…It fits my needs and is adjustable. For shell: iterm2 is ok, yet I'm currently in love with kitty. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty Brew alternatives: macports, nix ( https://nixos.org ) I love the idea, yet still haven't gotten around…

comment by kgarten · 2021-12-31 · in macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux

…for merging features without thinking about them hard enough is a good way to go either. [1]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/2350952d054bcaf945a...

comment by yencabulator · 2021-11-27 · in Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty (2020)

…with no user data transmitted [0]. I would love any other information if there is more to it. [0]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3802

comment by epicide · 2021-10-05 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support

no, Notcurses supports both Sixel and the Kitty protocol (indeed, i proposed https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3809 , which drastically cut down on the bandwidth necessary for certain operations), in addition to the Linux…

comment by dankamongmen · 2021-08-16 · in Notcurses: Blingful TUIs and Character Graphics

…https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/ac1aa575011028ed86... https://github.com/r-c-f/foot https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/d360d077d1f7723b1... https://github.com/tomszilagyi/zutty https://github.com/mintty/mintty/blob/master/…

comment by drran · 2021-05-20 · in Raw keyboard handling in Unix terminals

I hope it "obsoletes" kitty as well https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544#issuecomment-8...

comment by vnhnhm · 2021-05-08 · in Use Alacritty instead of Termite

…The kitty terminal emulator supports this out of the box (it also works on two other platforms): https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty Ctrl+Shift+U opens a Unicode input panel with fuzzy search by symbol code or name.

comment by scaladev · 2021-03-11 · in I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

…extension opportunities and would probably be a good early project opportunity for some people. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty Also, renpy is used for a number of games, including some commercial games, so modifiying an existing game…

comment by joveian · 2021-02-09 · in Show HN: "100 Page Python Intro" eBook

…https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/protocol-extensions.html Here is an overview of image modes: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/33 The terminal hyperlink thing seems quite useful. Kitty has some magic where if you click a hyperlink…

comment by joveian · 2021-02-03 · in ANSI escape codes (2019)

…in playing around with different terminal emulators, you’d do yourself a service trying kitty [ https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty ]. It made my experience on high DPI screens far better. You can find it packaged up in the usual places…

comment by asguy · 2021-01-11 · in XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought

…so maybe just use those packages? Also, there are binaries on the Github release page: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/releases , just download and put them into $PATH manually? Given all that, I find it perfectly acceptable to offer a…

comment by _frkl · 2020-10-01 · in Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

You've only looked at this superficially. First commit of Kovid Goyal kitty in October 2016: * https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/tree/de072b3b423ad114cc4... Hacker News post about the KiTTY fork of PuTTY in September 2011: *…

comment by JdeBP · 2020-09-30 · in Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

See https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9#issuecomment-41... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13342497 . I don't know what Reddit thread is being referenced. The only Reddit thread that I found was making fairly juvenile and…

comment by JdeBP · 2020-09-30 · in Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

…(Kitty author's preference) or "kitty" (ncurses maintainer's preference) for the TERM value. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/879#issuecomment-...

comment by tomjakubowski · 2020-09-30 · in Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

I dont like their approach in the issue of "Kitty Only uses Dark colors"[1] 1. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/197

comment by garou · 2020-09-30 · in Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

…having a UI at all, and he's opposed to having more GUI at all, like on this very basic feature: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/1402

comment by square_usual · 2020-09-25 · in Calibre 5.0

Both iTerm and Tilix are nice but once I tried Kitty I never looked back. Cross platform, too. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

comment by petepete · 2020-03-27 · in Darling – Run macOS software on Linux

This is what I mean: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/1123

comment by jhasse · 2020-03-25 · in Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

The relevant Github issue is also quite memorable: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9#issuecomment-41... I wonder if the author might be willing to reconsider. He should have newfound appreciation for how annoying name collisions…

comment by KarlKemp · 2020-03-25 · in Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

…wish ncurses were more eager to adopt descriptions of innovations in terminal emulator design. [1] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/160#issuecomment-... [2] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/protocol-extensions.html#ext...

comment by quotemstr · 2020-03-25 · in Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

It's a shame it's named kitty though. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9

comment by Murrawhip · 2019-10-04 · in Calibre 4.0

Not to be confused with https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty , a GPU-accelerated terminal for MacOS and Linux.

comment by vortico · 2019-10-01 · in PuTTY 0.73

I had issues with urxvt and ended up moving to Kitty ( https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty ). I'm not impressed with its' autoupdate feature, but it can be disabled. Apart from that a few visual bugs which are probably to do with nvidia…

comment by RadiantSecurity · 2019-09-19 · in Linux Terminal Goods

Yeah of course... I use kitty as a terminal emulator with elvish as a default shell: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty Elvish is also a lightweight programming language like bash and zsh. Which is an underrated part of using shells (bash…

comment by dmix · 2019-07-09 · in Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust

…about it until the release [1]. I can't rely on a terminal that's maintained like that. [1] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/887#issuecomment-...

comment by daveFNbuck · 2019-03-24 · in iTerm2 beta adds Python API

…the list, I use it as an alternative to Alacritty mostly because it supports font ligatures. [0]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

comment by funkaster · 2019-03-07 · in Terminal emulators benchmarking suite (2018)

related issue: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9

comment by oomem · 2018-09-07 · in Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

Likewise, I found this as I was trying to make it work with Terminus: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/106 Obviously using the truetype version (which isn't pixel perfect but a mess) is not an option. Too bad. I'll stick to…

comment by snvzz · 2018-09-06 · in Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

The author won't integrate this for portabilities reasons : https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/45 "This is not possible to do in a cross-platform manner, as it depends on the details of the desktop environment/window manager.…

comment by feydaykyn · 2018-09-06 · in Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

Looks like its unlikely to get changed, as stated in the last comment of the thread by the owner. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9#issuecomment-41...

comment by suspectdoubloon · 2018-09-06 · in Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

9th issue on their tracker: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9

comment by kimat · 2018-09-06 · in Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

This doesn't work on half of Nvidia-powered laptops: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/456

comment by self_awareness · 2018-09-06 · in Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

…this feature in the nightly version and kitty[1] and alacritty[2] still feel faster than iterm2. 1. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty 2. https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

comment by pacomerh · 2018-07-28 · in iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

…it certainly has more features than alacritty, like opening links via keyboard using hints. 1. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

comment by davrot · 2018-07-28 · in iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

Kitty terminal can too, and has designed a protocol for it: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/docs/graphic...

comment by afranchuk · 2018-07-27 · in Termgraph: Python CLI Tool to Draw Graphs

…based on rendering via a DOM. Many ternminals support all or most of these features, one such: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

comment by aumerle · 2018-05-09 · in Eshell as a main shell

Have you tried Kitty? https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty , Pretty good too in terms of performance

comment by pacomerh · 2018-04-23 · in Hyper 2, Electron based terminal

…Here are the escape sequences used by Kitty for sending modifiers to the shell from the terminal: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/protocol-ext... (thanks aumerle)

comment by emj · 2018-04-22 · in A look at terminal emulators, part 1

…the fancy nice-to-haves, but it is butter smooth, 256 color okay, and renders emojis nicely. [1]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

comment by roylez · 2018-04-22 · in A look at terminal emulators, part 1

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty and as for moving the state of terminals forward: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/protocol-ext...

comment by aumerle · 2017-09-29 · in Modern terminal-based text editor

> kitty is heavy […] Please file a bug report: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues Kitty aims to offload rendering to the GPU so if your CPU is being hammered that might indicate a problem either in Kitty or the GLFW library. The…

comment by noch · 2017-08-24 · in Extensions to the xterm protocol

I use this pattern a lot. For example, in https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty where the UI layer is in python and the performance critical code is in C. I find this pattern gives me an optimum in performance + maintainability.

comment by aumerle · 2017-06-20 · in Show HN: Fast C-based HTML 5 parsing for Python

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/4

comment by aumerle · 2017-01-07 · in Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator