Kitty 0.50

petepete

I love Kitty. I've used it since discovering it in about 2019 and it strikes the right balance of things. It's easy to customise, super fast, light on resources, available in my distro's package manager and while the author might be a bit prickly at times, he does a fantastic job leading the project and keeping things focused. I'll give the new shaders a try but the animated cursor is probably busy enough for me already.

isqueiros

To someone uninformed, how does this compare to Ghostty?

omegaSigma95

Tbh the quick access terminal stuff in this release is what I wanted three years ago when I wrote my own wrapper

TheRoque

Nice. I love kitty. But somehow I just realized I'm stuck in 0.47 even though I'm on Fedora, it's like 6 months old. Excited to try the automated session restore.

jfsebastian

Kitty is my go-to for the Linux desktop. I discovered it in an early stage and really liked it from the beginning. It’s great to see that the project continues to be developed so vigorously.

janalsncm

> Restore after logout Awesome. I built a janky version of this for myself but I’m glad it’s supported natively now.

Systemerror7A69

Oh wow, I did not expect not only that many interesting changes, but also that many which seem actually specifically useful to me - very cool to read! I love kitty, have used it for a long while now and pretty happy, except for that one thing about ssh xterm - but even that is mostly minor. Really cool to see such active development of an already perfectly capable and working software.

anonymous_i

I recognized him name from Calibre: https://calibre-ebook.com/about What a legend.

miroljub

It doesn't work on Windows. What are your favorite Windows alternatives?

a-french-anon

Just a PSA for people who don't know and have a "normal" DPI monitor: bitmap fonts are intentionally not supported by Kitty.

darkwater

Automated session restore might make me go back to Kitty from Ghostty.

solyin

> Variable font support Okay, that's pretty cool. How does it handle spacing though? Do the columns in ls/top/etc still line up?

krautburglar

Apparently RedHat killed X11 so Kovid could go re-implement it on top of VT220. Ugh.

linksbro

woah, those custom shaders ( https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/custom-shaders/ ) are sick! ghostty is great, but it's missing that... spirit, that kitty seems to be bringing! gz on the release

Milpotel

In case you don't want a terminal to mess with (or manage) windows, you can disable at least the key bindings: enabled_layouts fat map kitty_mod+l no_op map kitty_mod+enter no_op # disable open/close map kitty_mod+n no_op map kitty_mod+w no_op

kvlx

Can someone give me a use case of where terminal shaders are providing functionality, rather than eye candy? I mean I love my retro crt look, but there has to be a better reason to have shaders on a term

pmontra

I am using kitty to run Claude TUI and Gnome Terminal for everything else. The reason is that kitty has basically no chrome around the terminal so there is more space for Claude to write its stuff. Furthermore it's got a different icon so I can pick it more easily from the task bar or with Alt-Tab. However it's got no menus and it takes a "man kitty" to learn how to use it (a /s to myself, I used to read the man pages of everything.) Gnome Terminal has menus and dialogs and that makes it more discoverable and easier to configure. I am using it for bash.

ivolimmen

I use multiple terminals. I like Ghostty and Kitty. I the past I tried multiple others like Guake, Allacritty, xterm, Gnome Terminal, ITerm (when I was forced to use a Mac), Windows Terminal (I am now forced to work on Windows). And of all terminals I still prefer Kitty. There is one feature Kitty has that no other has (or not yet) and that is the 'open last execution log' (ctrl + shift + g). It's a lifesaver.

dagi3d

I really love Kitty, it took me only about 5 minutes to migrate from Ghostty. just wish the used this icon as default: https://github.com/DinkDonk/kitty-icon