kitty for Mac
GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
Free
In English
Version 0.42.2When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
kitty overview
kitty is a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator.
Highlights:
- Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load and buttery smooth scrolling. Uses threaded rendering to minimize input latency
- Supports all modern terminal features: graphics (images), unicode, true-color, OpenType ligatures, mouse protocol, focus tracking, bracketed paste and several new terminal protocol extensions
- Supports tiling multiple terminal windows side by side in different layouts without needing to use an extra program like tmux
- Can be controlled from scripts or the shell prompt, even over SSH
- Has a framework for Kittens, small terminal programs that can be used to extend kitty's functionality. For example, they are used for Unicode input, Hints and Side-by-side diff
- Supports startup sessions which allow you to specify the window/tab layout, working directories and programs to run on startup
- Cross-platform: kitty works on Linux and macOS, but because it uses only OpenGL for rendering, it should be trivial to port to other Unix-like platforms
- Allows you to open the scrollback buffer in a separate window using arbitrary programs of your choice. This is useful for browsing the history comfortably in a pager or editor
- Has multiple copy/paste buffers, like vim
What’s new in version 0.42.2
- A new protocol extension to notify terminal programs that have turned on SGR Pixel mouse reporting when the mouse leaves the window (#8808)
- clipboard kitten: Can now optionally take a password to avoid repeated permission prompts when accessing the clipboard. Based on a protocol extension. (#8789)
- A new launch --hold-after-ssh to not close a launched window that connects directly to a remote host because of launch --cwd=current when the connection ends (#8807)
- Fix remember_window_position not working because of a stupid typo (#8646)
- A new kitty --grab-keyboard that can be used to grab the keyboard so that global shortcuts are sent to kitty instead
- Remote control: Fix holding a remote control socket open causing the kitty I/O thread to go into a loop and not respond on other remote control sockets (#8670)
- hints kitten: Preserve line breaks when the hint is over a line break (#8674)
- Fix a segfault when using the copy_ansi_to_clipboard action (#8682)
- Fix a crash when using linear easing curves for animations (#8692)
- Graphics protocol: Add a note clarifying image update behavior on re-transmission (#8701)
- Wayland GNOME: Fix incorrect OS Window tracking because GNOME has started activating windows on non-current workspaces (#8716)
- Fix a regression in 0.40.0 that broke rendering of VS15 variation selectors in some circumstances (#8731, #8794)
- Fix a regression in 0.40.0 that broke serialization of tab characters as ANSI text (#8741)
- Fix a regression in 0.40.0 that broke erasing of characters in a line in the presence of wide characters (#8758)
- Fix a regression in 0.40.0 that broke hyperlinking of wide characters (#8796)
- Fix a regression that broke using esc to exit visual select window mode (#8767)
- kitten run-shell: Fix SIGINT blocked when execing the shell (#8754)
kitty for Mac
Free
In English
Version 0.42.2
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Feb 18 2022
Version: 0.24.2
It looks like the current version now requires macOS 10.14. Any chance of adding back support for macOS 10.13?
Aug 2 2021
Version: 0.22.2
The developer is Kovid Goyal, developer of the remarkable Calibre application. -> https://kovidgoyal.net/ <- He's a hero of mine! (Even if he does *gag* like Ayn Rand and can't cook). If Kovid is 'codear' he's forgiven. Have a read through his website. He's a left-right brainer out to freely help the computer community and that's all right with me. I'm happy to support his work and try out 'kitty'.
Apr 29 2021
Version: 0.20.2
the user codear has a visit count of 1, so this is a typical developer self comment.
can't say if its good, but how the settings are handled seems complicated.
Jul 17 2020
Version: 0.18.1
excellent - cross platform, blazing fast terminal emulator with unique features, like unicode search, configuration terminal, gpu accelerated rendering, ligatures etc. if you frequently use terminal emulator and work on different operating systems - perfect choice.
