Kitty terminal Reviews and Details

Is Kitty terminal good?

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• Optimizing My Dev Workflow in 2025

  Initially, I used the Mac's built-in Terminal, but encountered issues with font loading. This led me to explore alternative terminal options. I initially chose Kitty, but after the official release of Ghostty, I made the switch. It has been running flawlessly for me. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• iTerm2 Critical Security Fix

  Kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty) has been my go to for many years and with tmux it's fantastic. I have heard a lot of great things about https://ghostty.org/ but haven't had a chance to check it out. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Preview images, videos, fonts, PDFs ... in Vifm.

  The terminal I am currently using is st but I have also tested this "Vifm" enhancement in kitty and alacritty. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative

  Oh, this might be the missing piece of the puzzle for me to get rid of tmux! I've been using screen/tmux for a long time. Recently I switched to kitty[0] locally. I like kitty a lot! But I've been stuck with tmux on my servers for session persistence. [0]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

  Besides the usual Firefox/Chrome, Spotify, etc I use the following: - Karabiner-Elements for key remapping, specifically, for making caps lock into ctrl/esc. I don't know of anything else that does this job. Everyone who remaps keys seems to use this. - Kitty as my terminal of choice. I spend most of my time logged in remotely to a server via ssh where I attach to a tmux session. Kitty was easy enough to... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Warp, the modern terminal, is now available for Linux

  A terminal with built-in telemetry and a pricing model... Just what I never wanted! To avoid being too negative, I'll offer the option of Kitty[1]. My current favorite terminal. Supports many features. Including my personal favorites: * ctrl+c (as opposed to stupid things like ctrl+shift+c) to copy data only when you have content selected. Otherwise, ctrl+c sends a sigint like normal. * font ligature support (a... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals

  IME, this is like the golden age of terminal apps in general and macOS-compatible ones in particular. There are several really good terminals for macOS: [iTerm2 app](https://iterm2.com/) [Kitty terminal](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) [WezTerm terminal](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html) [Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) -... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Waveterm

  I haven’t tried this yet (so please take my commentary with a grain of salt), but my initial thoughts are: (1) it looks interesting, (2) it looks overwhelming (there’s a lot going on in those screenshots), and (3) it’s likely slow (I might be completely wrong). To elaborate a bit… 1. I love good design work and well-designed (UI-wise) software, and it certainly looks like the creators of Wave Terminal have made... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator

  There are lots of terminal projects recently. Ghostty (https://mitchellh.com/ghostty) and Terminal Click (https://terminal.click) come to mind. Also Warp and Fig but they don't appeal to me because they're proprietary (and Fig got acquired by Amazon). I've been very happy with kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) for years and it would take a lot to make me switch. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Linux Terminal Emulators Have the Potential of Being Much Faster

  I favor kitty[0] and zutty[1]. Gnome terminal / libvte is and has always been slow, and alacritty might have good throughput, but sadly is high latency. 0. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ 1. https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Show HN: Whiz – A copilot for your command line

  I loved Warp for it's speed, but the keybindings and lack of configuration didn't work for me. For example, it doesn't support "ctrl+x ctrl+e" which I use daily for editing long prompts in vim. I recently switched to (Kitty)[https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/] and I don't think I'm ever going back. It's not flashy and doesn't have any AI features. It's just a donation-funded, wickedly fast, highly configurable,... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Tmux has forever changed the way I write code [video]

  I may be alone on this, but kitty¹ with sessions has nearly eliminated my use of tmux. [1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• A collection of useful Mac Apps

  Kitty - Price: Free Fast, feature-rich, GPU-based terminal emulator for macOS. Source: about 2 years ago

• Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age

  I used iTerm2 on a daily basis for many years, but started using Kitty in late 2021 and now prefer it: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Which terminal do you use? I don't like Warp

  I personally love using Alacritty. Super fast, and no bloat. Takes a little bit of setup such as setting up a Font if you want icons to appear. Kitty is supposed to be really good, but I've never used it before. Source: over 2 years ago

• Mac shortcuts in cli vim

  These remaps work for me in the kitty terminal emulator. Source: over 2 years ago

• Everything I Installed on My New Mac

  Alacritty is my terminal of choice. It's super customizable and plenty fast. It doesn't get in your way and just lets you get things done. It doesn't have tabs like iTerm or Kitty but I don't mind that because I use it with tmux which I have previously written about in my workflow post. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Manjaro as my Dev Enviroment

  I use kitty, with a Nord theme, transparency, and Zsh with Oh My Zsh, using the clean theme. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• How to "sync" TE size(grid) with my font(cells)?

  The kitty terminal can do that with the config option resize_in_steps yes set. That only works in X11, though; and only when the window can freely resize itself, i.e. Not in fullscreen mode or when maximized. I don't know what will happen if the window is coerced into a geometry by your WM, I don't use a tiling WM myself to test. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is there a way of rendering LaTeX in the gnome-terminal?

  Using pnglatex to create an image file, and then Kitty's kitten icat to render the image. Example:. Source: over 2 years ago

• Recommendation for an app to execute a workflow with some hotkey !

  iTerm and Terminal.app can be controlled through AppleScript, but I personally use kitty which has session files where you can define tabs/panes with specific commands to be run inside. Iterm might also have something similar. Source: over 2 years ago