5 ms·

Kitty is an amazing terminal if you are willing to spend some time to learn and customize it. Take a look at the screencast on its website, it is super powerful

by cbsks 4y ago

Kitty is an amazing terminal if you are willing to spend some time to learn and customize it. Take a look at the screencast on its website, it is super powerful and will make your coworkers and friends jealous. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

nine_k 4y ago
Kitty and Alacritty miss one feature which is key to me: assigning a separate color to bold face. I read a lot of output that only has bold face markup, like man pages or top output. They are way easier to read if bold face stands out more than, well, just thicker letter strokes. So I'm stuck with xfce4-terminal.
- qbasic_forever 4y ago
  Those terminals support bold rendered using ANSI bright colors as a config option and then you can set the ANSI brights to whatever custom colors you prefer.
  - nine_k 4y ago
    Many thanks! I'll try this.
rgoulter 4y ago
> if you are willing to spend some time to learn and customize it. What do you take time to learn/customize about kitty?
cookiengineer 4y ago
I think the major benefit of why I stuck with kitty is that it removes somewhat the need for tilix and tmux, and also integrates nicely if you have a tiling wm only on one system but not the other (networked multihead, anyone?). The kitty.conf [1] is pretty powerful and allows a lot of customizations. It also has emoji support so you can make everything pretty in your PS1 :D [1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/
bXVsbGVy 4y ago
I don't like how intrusive kitty is. The "shell integration", "remote control", ssh's "kittens" makes feel uneasy from a security standpoint. Maybe I'm just being paranoid :p I thought about forking it into a "skinny kitty". But there are so many good ttys nowadays that I the effort is not worth it. Another option would be to sandbox with linux namespace and capabilities. Not sure how feasible it is. Kitty does has a lot of cool features though -- most I don't care about.
- gorjusborg 4y ago
  I feel the same way, yet I still use it. I would love a fast terminal that supported the tmux-like splits/panes and flexible keybindings and dropped all the exotic stuff. In particular, the custom termcap stuff I have to do with kitty when ssh-ing is enough to motivate me to switch.

by cbsks 4y ago

nine_k 4y ago

Kitty and Alacritty miss one feature which is key to me: assigning a separate color to bold face. I read a lot of output that only has bold face markup, like man pages or top output. They are way easier to read if bold face stands out more than, well, just thicker letter strokes. So I'm stuck with xfce4-terminal.

qbasic_forever 4y ago
Those terminals support bold rendered using ANSI bright colors as a config option and then you can set the ANSI brights to whatever custom colors you prefer.
- nine_k 4y ago
  Many thanks! I'll try this.

rgoulter 4y ago

> if you are willing to spend some time to learn and customize it. What do you take time to learn/customize about kitty?

cookiengineer 4y ago

I think the major benefit of why I stuck with kitty is that it removes somewhat the need for tilix and tmux, and also integrates nicely if you have a tiling wm only on one system but not the other (networked multihead, anyone?). The kitty.conf [1] is pretty powerful and allows a lot of customizations. It also has emoji support so you can make everything pretty in your PS1 :D [1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/

bXVsbGVy 4y ago

I don't like how intrusive kitty is. The "shell integration", "remote control", ssh's "kittens" makes feel uneasy from a security standpoint. Maybe I'm just being paranoid :p I thought about forking it into a "skinny kitty". But there are so many good ttys nowadays that I the effort is not worth it. Another option would be to sandbox with linux namespace and capabilities. Not sure how feasible it is. Kitty does has a lot of cool features though -- most I don't care about.

gorjusborg 4y ago
I feel the same way, yet I still use it. I would love a fast terminal that supported the tmux-like splits/panes and flexible keybindings and dropped all the exotic stuff. In particular, the custom termcap stuff I have to do with kitty when ssh-ing is enough to motivate me to switch.