Kitty - a modern term
the fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator - kitty / HN
Kitty Terminal Emulator: How to Install, Configure, and Use It
- Fix terminal issues when ssh -
$ kitty +kitten ssh user@host- Xterm-Kitty: Unknown Terminal Type? -
$ export TERM=xterm-256color
- Xterm-Kitty: Unknown Terminal Type? -
- Kitty conf (ctrl+shift+f2)
- remote file - Edit, Open or Download files from a computer into which you are SSHed
ls --hyperlink=auto+ Ctrl+Shift
- icat - Display images in the terminal
alias icat="kitty +kitten icat image-file-or-url-or-directory "
Integration with other tools
kitty provides extremely powerful interfaces such as Control kitty from scripts and Custom kittens and icat that allow it to be integrated with other tools seamlessly.
- Kitti3 turns Kitty into a drop-down, Quake-style floating terminal.
see also:
- ghostty / HN - by the creator of Hashicorp
- Talk: Introducing Ghostty and Some Useful Zig Patterns - Why Zig? Why Not <Language> I don’t care for this question and I don’t care to answer it. I chose Zig, I like Zig, let’s move on.
- foot - The fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator.
- alacritty - the fastest terminal emulator in existence.
- Terminal image viewer
- changing the icon on ubuntu
Written on October 2, 2020, Last update on October 20, 2025
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