kitty for Mac
GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
Free
In English
Version 0.38.0When 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 0.38.0
- Allow specifying individual color themes to use so that kitty changes colors automatically following the OS dark/light mode
- notify_on_cmd_finish: Automatically remove notifications when the window gains focus or the next notification is shown. Clearing behavior can be configured (#8100)
- Discard OSC 9 notifications that start with 4; because some misguided software is using it for “progress reporting” (#8011)
- Wayland GNOME: Workaround bug in mutter causing double tap on titlebar to not always work (#8054)
- clipboard kitten: Fix a bug causing kitten to hang in filter mode when input data size is not divisible by 3 and larger than 8KB (#8059)
- Wayland: Fix an abort when a client program tries to set an invalid title containing interleaved escape codes and UTF-8 multi-byte characters (#8067)
- Graphics protocol: Fix delete by number not deleting newest image with the specified number (#8071)
- Fix dashed and dotted underlines not being drawn at the same y position as straight underlines at all font sizes (#8074)
- panel kitten: Allow creating floating and on-top panels with arbitrary placement and size on Wayland (#8068)
- remote_control_password: Fix using a password without any actions not working (#8082)
- Fix enlarging window when a long line is wrapped between the first line of the scrollback buffer and the screen inserting a spurious newline (#7033)
- When re-attaching a detached tab preserve internal layout state such as biases and orientations (#8106)
- hints/unicode_input kittens: Do not lose keypresses that are sent very rapidly via an automation tool immediately after the kitten is launched (#7089)
kitty for Mac
Free
In English
Version 0.38.0
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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.
