kitty#
The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load
Uses threaded rendering for absolutely minimal latency
Performance tradeoffs can be tuned
Graphics, with images and animations
Ligatures and emoji, with
per glyph font substitution
Control from scripts or the shell
Extend with kittens using the Python language
Use startup sessions to specify working environments
Programmable tabs, splits and multiple layouts to manage windows
Browse the entire history or the
output from the last command
comfortably in pagers and editorsEdit or download remote files in an existing SSH session
Linux
macOS
Various BSDs
Pioneered various extensions to move the entire terminal ecosystem forward
Watch kitty in action!
To get started see Quickstart.