the fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator - kitty / HN

# Kitty

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
• 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.

# Ghostty

By the creator of Hashicorp - HN

• 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.
  • Can use shader to achieve various effect like retro-terminal

# see also:

• foot - The fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator.
• alacritty - the fastest terminal emulator in existence.
• Terminal image viewer

• Casey Muratori’s refterm

• changing the icon on ubuntu