Integrations with other tools#

kitty provides extremely powerful interfaces such as Control kitty from scripts and Custom kittens and icat that allow it to be integrated with other tools seamlessly.

Image and document viewers#

Powered by kitty’s Terminal graphics protocol there exist many tools for viewing images and other types of documents directly in your terminal, even over SSH.

mdcat #

Display markdown files nicely formatted with images in the terminal

ranger #

A terminal file manager, with previews of file contents powered by kitty’s graphics protocol.

nnn #

Another terminal file manager, with previews of file contents powered by kitty’s graphics protocol.

hunter #

Another terminal file manager, with previews of file contents powered by kitty’s graphics protocol.

presenterm #

Show markdown based slides with images in your terminal, powered by the kitty graphics protocol.

term-image #

Tool to browse images in a terminal using kitty’s graphics protocol.

koneko #

Browse images from the pixiv artist community directly in kitty.

viu #

View images in the terminal, similar to kitty’s icat.

nb #

Command line and local web note-taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application that uses kitty’s graphics protocol for images.

w3m #

A text mode WWW browser that supports kitty’s graphics protocol to display images.

awrit #

A full Chromium based web browser running in the terminal using kitty’s graphics protocol.

mpv #

A video player that can play videos in the terminal.

A terminal image and video viewer, that displays static and animated images or plays videos. Fast multi-threaded loading, JPEG exif rotation, grid view and connecting to the webcam make it a versatile terminal utility.

System and data visualisation tools#

neofetch #

A command line system information tool that shows images using kitty’s graphics protocol

matplotlib #

Show matplotlib plots directly in kitty

KittyTerminalImages.jl #

Show images from Julia directly in kitty

euporie #

A text-based user interface for running and editing Jupyter notebooks, powered by kitty’s graphics protocol for displaying plots

gnuplot #

A graphing and data visualization tool that can be made to display its output in kitty with the following bash snippet:

function iplot {
    cat <<EOF | gnuplot
    set terminal pngcairo enhanced font 'Fira Sans,10'
    set autoscale
    set samples 1000
    set output '|kitten icat --stdin yes'
    set object 1 rectangle from screen 0,0 to screen 1,1 fillcolor rgb"#fdf6e3" behind
    plot $@
    set output '/dev/null'
EOF
}