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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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    Show HN: Side-by-side diff in the terminal with images and syntax highlighting
    story by aumerle · 2018-05-21 · 0 comments
  2. …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
  3. 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
  4. …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
  5. …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
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    Kitty v0.4 terminal emulator adds graphics support
    story by aumerle · 2017-10-22 · 0 comments
  7. 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
  8. > 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
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    Extensions to the xterm protocol
    story by noch · 2017-08-24 · 4 comments
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. …# install glfw cd glfw cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON . make install cd .. git clone https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty # install kitty cd kitty # Then delete ", '-l' + lib" on line 78 of setup.py... and run: python setup.py install But I…
    comment by toomim · 2017-01-07 · in Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator
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    Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator
    story by aumerle · 2017-01-07 · 88 comments