Kitty

A cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal, with support for hyperlinks, image viewer.

References

• Kitty
• Kitty (github)

Install / config

• See also Kitty FAQ

• Setup terminfo

# SSH locally so that kitty will install terminfo file automatically (in ~/.terminfo/kitty.terminfo)
kitty +kitten ssh localhost

# Can also copy the file manually:
# See https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/ssh/#manual-terminfo-copy
infocmp -a xterm-kitty | ssh myserver tic -x -o \~/.terminfo /dev/stdin

• Add xterm-kitty to ~/.dircolors.cfg

 TERM xterm-color
 TERM xterm-debian
+TERM xterm-kitty
 # Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init
 # string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes:

• Configure font thickness in white themes, .config/kitty/kitty.conf:

# See kitty.conf help text or https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.text_composition_strategy on how to setup this variable
# See https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/6197
# See background tech details at: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/5969
# This setting gives pixel identical rendering as gnome-terminator with light themes
text_composition_strategy 1.6 0

• Add font resize shortcut:

# See https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#conf-kitty-shortcuts-layout
# Resize fonts in current OS window
map ctrl+shift+equal       change_font_size current +1.0
map ctrl+shift+plus        change_font_size current +1.0
map ctrl+shift+kp_add      change_font_size current +1.0
map ctrl+minus             change_font_size current -1.0
map ctrl+shift+kp_subtract change_font_size current -1.0
# map ctrl+shift+backspace   change_font_size current 0
map ctrl+0                 change_font_size current 0

Tips

Increase font size

Increasing the font size dynamically seems to require to enable remote control

kitty -c NONE -o font_size=12 -o allow_remote_control=yes # Or through config
kitty @ set-font-size -- +2