kitty

The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator

Fast

• Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load

• Uses threaded rendering for absolutely minimal latency

• Performance tradeoffs can be tuned

Capable

• Graphics, with images and animations

• Ligatures and emoji, with per glyph font substitution

• Hyperlinks, with configurable actions

Scriptable

• Control from scripts or the shell

• Extend with kittens using the Python language

• Use startup sessions to specify working environments

Composable

• Programmble tabs, splits and multiple layouts to manage windows

• Browse the entire history or the output from the last command comfortably in pagers and editors

• Edit or download remote files in an existing SSH session

Cross-platform

• Linux

• macOS

• Various BSDs

Innovative

Pioneered various extensions to move the entire terminal ecosystem forward

• Terminal graphics protocol

• Comprehensive keyboard handling in terminals

• Lots more in Terminal protocol extensions

Screenshot, showing vim, tig and git running in kitty with the ‘Tall’ layout

To get started see Quickstart.