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If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.

113 mentions on Hacker News by 87 people: 12 stories, 101 comments · first 2017-01-07 · latest 2026-10-07

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  1. …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
  2. …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
  3. …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)
  4. …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)
  5. …/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)
  6. …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
  7. ▲ 1
    Terminal Multiplexers Are Hacks (2020)
    story by rdegges · 2022-05-01 · 0 comments
  8. 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
  9. …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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. …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
  14. …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)
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    Kovidgoyal/kitty: Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
    story by axiomdata316 · 2021-11-16 · 1 comment
  16. …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
  17. 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
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    Terminal multiplexers are a bad idea, do not use them, if at all possible
    story by eatonphil · 2021-06-21 · 1 comment
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    Kitty creator thinks terminal multiplexers are obsolete
    story by untech · 2021-06-05 · 0 comments
  20. …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
  21. 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
  22. …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
  23. …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
  24. …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)
  25. …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
  26. …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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. …(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
  30. 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
  31. …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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. …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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. …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
  41. …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)
  42. related issue: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9
    comment by oomem · 2018-09-07 · in Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. …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
  49. …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
  50. 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