/# vim:fileencoding=utf-8:ft=conf:foldmethod=marker #: Fonts {{{ #: kitty has very powerful font management. You can configure #: individual font faces and even specify special fonts for particular #: characters. font_family Victor Mono bold_font auto italic_font auto bold_italic_font auto #: You can specify different fonts for the bold/italic/bold-italic #: variants. To get a full list of supported fonts use the `kitty #: list-fonts` command. By default they are derived automatically, by #: the OSes font system. Setting them manually is useful for font #: families that have many weight variants like Book, Medium, Thick, #: etc. For example:: #: font_family Operator Mono Book #: bold_font Operator Mono Medium #: italic_font Operator Mono Book Italic #: bold_italic_font Operator Mono Medium Italic font_size 11.0 #: Font size (in pts) adjust_line_height 0 adjust_column_width 0 #: Change the size of each character cell kitty renders. You can use #: either numbers, which are interpreted as pixels or percentages #: (number followed by %), which are interpreted as percentages of the #: unmodified values. You can use negative pixels or percentages less #: than 100% to reduce sizes (but this might cause rendering #: artifacts). # symbol_map U+E0A0-U+E0A2,U+E0B0-U+E0B3 PowerlineSymbols #: Map the specified unicode codepoints to a particular font. Useful #: if you need special rendering for some symbols, such as for #: Powerline. Avoids the need for patched fonts. Each unicode code #: point is specified in the form U+. You #: can specify multiple code points, separated by commas and ranges #: separated by hyphens. symbol_map itself can be specified multiple #: times. Syntax is:: #: symbol_map codepoints Font Family Name disable_ligatures never #: Choose how you want to handle multi-character ligatures. The #: default is to always render them. You can tell kitty to not render #: them when the cursor is over them by using cursor to make editing #: easier, or have kitty never render them at all by using always, if #: you don't like them. The ligature strategy can be set per-window #: either using the kitty remote control facility or by defining #: shortcuts for it in kitty.conf, for example:: #: map alt+1 disable_ligatures_in active always #: map alt+2 disable_ligatures_in all never #: map alt+3 disable_ligatures_in tab cursor box_drawing_scale 0.001, 1, 1.5, 2 #: Change the sizes of the lines used for the box drawing unicode #: characters These values are in pts. They will be scaled by the #: monitor DPI to arrive at a pixel value. There must be four values #: corresponding to thin, normal, thick, and very thick lines. #: }}} #: Cursor customization {{{ cursor #cccccc #: Default cursor color cursor_text_color #111111 #: Choose the color of text under the cursor. If you want it rendered #: with the background color of the cell underneath instead, use the #: special keyword: background cursor_shape block #: The cursor shape can be one of (block, beam, underline) cursor_blink_interval -1 #: The interval (in seconds) at which to blink the cursor. Set to zero #: to disable blinking. Negative values mean use system default. Note #: that numbers smaller than repaint_delay will be limited to #: repaint_delay. cursor_stop_blinking_after 15.0 #: Stop blinking cursor after the specified number of seconds of #: keyboard inactivity. Set to zero to never stop blinking. #: }}} #: Scrollback {{{ scrollback_lines 2000 #: Number of lines of history to keep in memory for scrolling back. #: Memory is allocated on demand. Negative numbers are (effectively) #: infinite scrollback. Note that using very large scrollback is not #: recommended as it can slow down resizing of the terminal and also #: use large amounts of RAM. scrollback_pager less --chop-long-lines --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS +INPUT_LINE_NUMBER #: Program with which to view scrollback in a new window. The #: scrollback buffer is passed as STDIN to this program. If you change #: it, make sure the program you use can handle ANSI escape sequences #: for colors and text formatting. INPUT_LINE_NUMBER in the command #: line above will be replaced by an integer representing which line #: should be at the top of the screen. scrollback_pager_history_size 0 #: Separate scrollback history size, used only for browsing the #: scrollback buffer (in MB). This separate buffer is not available #: for interactive scrolling but will be piped to the pager program #: when viewing scrollback buffer in a separate window. The current #: implementation stores one character in 4 bytes, so approximatively #: 2500 lines per megabyte at 100 chars per line. A value of zero or #: less disables this feature. The maximum allowed size is 4GB. wheel_scroll_multiplier 5.0 #: Modify the amount scrolled by the mouse wheel. Note this is only #: used for low precision scrolling devices, not for high precision #: scrolling on platforms such as macOS and Wayland. Use negative #: numbers to change scroll direction. touch_scroll_multiplier 1.0 #: Modify the amount scrolled by a touchpad. Note this is only used #: for high precision scrolling devices on platforms such as macOS and #: Wayland. Use negative numbers to change scroll direction. #: }}} #: Mouse {{{ mouse_hide_wait 3.0 #: Hide mouse cursor after the specified number of seconds of the #: mouse not being used. Set to zero to disable mouse cursor hiding. #: Set to a negative value to hide the mouse cursor immediately when #: typing text. Disabled by default on macOS as getting it to work #: robustly with the ever-changing sea of bugs that is Cocoa is too #: much effort. url_color #0087bd url_style curly #: The color and style for highlighting URLs on mouse-over. url_style #: can be one of: none, single, double, curly open_url_modifiers kitty_mod #: The modifier keys to press when clicking with the mouse on URLs to #: open the URL open_url_with default #: The program with which to open URLs that are clicked on. The #: special value default means to use the operating system's default #: URL handler. copy_on_select no #: Copy to clipboard or a private buffer on select. With this set to #: clipboard, simply selecting text with the mouse will cause the text #: to be copied to clipboard. Useful on platforms such as macOS that #: do not have the concept of primary selections. You can instead #: specify a name such as a1 to copy to a private kitty buffer #: instead. Map a shortcut with the paste_from_buffer action to paste #: from this private buffer. For example:: #: map cmd+shift+v paste_from_buffer a1 #: Note that copying to the clipboard is a security risk, as all #: programs, including websites open in your browser can read the #: contents of the system clipboard. strip_trailing_spaces never #: Remove spaces at the end of lines when copying to clipboard. A #: value of smart will do it when using normal selections, but not #: rectangle selections. always will always do it. rectangle_select_modifiers ctrl+alt #: The modifiers to use rectangular selection (i.e. to select text in #: a rectangular block with the mouse) terminal_select_modifiers shift #: The modifiers to override mouse selection even when a terminal #: application has grabbed the mouse select_by_word_characters :@-./_~?&=%+# #: Characters considered part of a word when double clicking. In #: addition to these characters any character that is marked as an #: alphanumeric character in the unicode database will be matched. click_interval -1.0 #: The interval between successive clicks to detect double/triple #: clicks (in seconds). Negative numbers will use the system default #: instead, if available, or fallback to 0.5. focus_follows_mouse no #: Set the active window to the window under the mouse when moving the #: mouse around pointer_shape_when_grabbed arrow #: The shape of the mouse pointer when the program running in the #: terminal grabs the mouse. #: }}} #: Performance tuning {{{ repaint_delay 10 #: Delay (in milliseconds) between screen updates. Decreasing it, #: increases frames-per-second (FPS) at the cost of more CPU usage. #: The default value yields ~100 FPS which is more than sufficient for #: most uses. Note that to actually achieve 100 FPS you have to either #: set sync_to_monitor to no or use a monitor with a high refresh #: rate. Also, to minimize latency when there is pending input to be #: processed, repaint_delay is ignored. input_delay 3 #: Delay (in milliseconds) before input from the program running in #: the terminal is processed. Note that decreasing it will increase #: responsiveness, but also increase CPU usage and might cause flicker #: in full screen programs that redraw the entire screen on each loop, #: because kitty is so fast that partial screen updates will be drawn. sync_to_monitor yes #: Sync screen updates to the refresh rate of the monitor. This #: prevents tearing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing) #: when scrolling. However, it limits the rendering speed to the #: refresh rate of your monitor. With a very high speed mouse/high #: keyboard repeat rate, you may notice some slight input latency. If #: so, set this to no. #: }}} #: Terminal bell {{{ enable_audio_bell yes #: Enable/disable the audio bell. Useful in environments that require #: silence. visual_bell_duration 0.0 #: Visual bell duration. Flash the screen when a bell occurs for the #: specified number of seconds. Set to zero to disable. window_alert_on_bell yes #: Request window attention on bell. Makes the dock icon bounce on #: macOS or the taskbar flash on linux. bell_on_tab yes #: Show a bell symbol on the tab if a bell occurs in one of the #: windows in the tab and the window is not the currently focused #: window command_on_bell none #: Program to run when a bell occurs. #: }}} #: Window layout {{{ remember_window_size yes initial_window_width 640 initial_window_height 400 #: If enabled, the window size will be remembered so that new #: instances of kitty will have the same size as the previous #: instance. If disabled, the window will initially have size #: configured by initial_window_width/height, in pixels. You can use a #: suffix of "c" on the width/height values to have them interpreted #: as number of cells instead of pixels. enabled_layouts * #: The enabled window layouts. A comma separated list of layout names. #: The special value all means all layouts. The first listed layout #: will be used as the startup layout. For a list of available #: layouts, see the #: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/index.html#layouts. window_resize_step_cells 2 window_resize_step_lines 2 #: The step size (in units of cell width/cell height) to use when #: resizing windows. The cells value is used for horizontal resizing #: and the lines value for vertical resizing. window_border_width 0.0 #: The width (in pts) of window borders. Will be rounded to the #: nearest number of pixels based on screen resolution. Note that #: borders are displayed only when more than one window is visible. #: They are meant to separate multiple windows. draw_minimal_borders yes #: Draw only the minimum borders needed. This means that only the #: minimum needed borders for inactive windows are drawn. That is only #: the borders that separate the inactive window from a neighbor. Note #: that setting a non-zero window margin overrides this and causes all #: borders to be drawn. window_margin_width 10.0 #: The window margin (in pts) (blank area outside the border) single_window_margin_width -1000.0 #: The window margin (in pts) to use when only a single window is #: visible. Negative values will cause the value of #: window_margin_width to be used instead. window_padding_width 0.0 #: The window padding (in pts) (blank area between the text and the #: window border) placement_strategy center #: When the window size is not an exact multiple of the cell size, the #: cell area of the terminal window will have some extra padding on #: the sides. You can control how that padding is distributed with #: this option. Using a value of center means the cell area will be #: placed centrally. A value of top-left means the padding will be on #: only the bottom and right edges. active_border_color #00ff00 #: The color for the border of the active window. Set this to none to #: not draw borders around the active window. inactive_border_color #cccccc #: The color for the border of inactive windows bell_border_color #ff5a00 #: The color for the border of inactive windows in which a bell has #: occurred inactive_text_alpha 1.0 #: Fade the text in inactive windows by the specified amount (a number #: between zero and one, with zero being fully faded). hide_window_decorations no #: Hide the window decorations (title-bar and window borders). Whether #: this works and exactly what effect it has depends on the window #: manager/operating system. resize_debounce_time 0.1 #: The time (in seconds) to wait before redrawing the screen when a #: resize event is received. On platforms such as macOS, where the #: operating system sends events corresponding to the start and end of #: a resize, this number is ignored. resize_draw_strategy static #: Choose how kitty draws a window while a resize is in progress. A #: value of static means draw the current window contents, mostly #: unchanged. A value of scale means draw the current window contents #: scaled. A value of blank means draw a blank window. A value of size #: means show the window size in cells. #: }}} #: Tab bar {{{ tab_bar_edge bottom #: Which edge to show the tab bar on, top or bottom tab_bar_margin_width 0.0 #: The margin to the left and right of the tab bar (in pts) tab_bar_style fade #: The tab bar style, can be one of: fade, separator, powerline, or #: hidden. In the fade style, each tab's edges fade into the #: background color, in the separator style, tabs are separated by a #: configurable separator, and the powerline shows the tabs as a #: continuous line. tab_bar_min_tabs 2 #: The minimum number of tabs that must exist before the tab bar is #: shown tab_switch_strategy previous #: The algorithm to use when switching to a tab when the current tab #: is closed. The default of previous will switch to the last used #: tab. A value of left will switch to the tab to the left of the #: closed tab. A value of last will switch to the right-most tab. tab_fade 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 #: Control how each tab fades into the background when using fade for #: the tab_bar_style. Each number is an alpha (between zero and one) #: that controls how much the corresponding cell fades into the #: background, with zero being no fade and one being full fade. You #: can change the number of cells used by adding/removing entries to #: this list. tab_separator " ┇" #: The separator between tabs in the tab bar when using separator as #: the tab_bar_style. tab_title_template {title} #: A template to render the tab title. The default just renders the #: title. If you wish to include the tab-index as well, use something #: like: {index}: {title}. Useful if you have shortcuts mapped for #: goto_tab N. active_tab_foreground #000 active_tab_background #eee active_tab_font_style bold-italic inactive_tab_foreground #444 inactive_tab_background #999 inactive_tab_font_style normal #: Tab bar colors and styles #: }}} #: Color scheme {{{ foreground #ffffff background #000000 #: The foreground and background colors background_opacity 0.80 #: The opacity of the background. A number between 0 and 1, where 1 is #: opaque and 0 is fully transparent. This will only work if #: supported by the OS (for instance, when using a compositor under #: X11). Note that it only sets the default background color's #: opacity. This is so that things like the status bar in vim, #: powerline prompts, etc. still look good. But it means that if you #: use a color theme with a background color in your editor, it will #: not be rendered as transparent. Instead you should change the #: default background color in your kitty config and not use a #: background color in the editor color scheme. Or use the escape #: codes to set the terminals default colors in a shell script to #: launch your editor. Be aware that using a value less than 1.0 is a #: (possibly significant) performance hit. If you want to dynamically #: change transparency of windows set dynamic_background_opacity to #: yes (this is off by default as it has a performance cost) dynamic_background_opacity no #: Allow changing of the background_opacity dynamically, using either #: keyboard shortcuts (increase_background_opacity and #: decrease_background_opacity) or the remote control facility. dim_opacity 0.75 #: How much to dim text that has the DIM/FAINT attribute set. One #: means no dimming and zero means fully dimmed (i.e. invisible). selection_foreground #000000 #: The foreground for text selected with the mouse. A value of none #: means to leave the color unchanged. selection_background #fffacd #: The background for text selected with the mouse. #: The 16 terminal colors. There are 8 basic colors, each color has a #: dull and bright version. You can also set the remaining colors from #: the 256 color table as color16 to color255. color0 #111111 color8 #767676 #: black color1 #ff6666 color9 #f2201f #: red color2 #66ff66 color10 #23fd00 #: green color3 #ffff66 color11 #fffd00 #: yellow color4 #6666ff color12 #1a8fff #: blue color5 #ff66ff color13 #fd28ff #: magenta color6 #66ffff color14 #14ffff #: cyan color7 #ffffff color15 #ffffff #: white #define oxide_00_black #212121 #define oxide_01_red #e57373 #define oxide_02_green #a6bc69 #define oxide_03_yellow #fac863 #define oxide_04_blue #6699cc #define oxide_05_magenta #c594c5 #define oxide_06_cyan #5fb3b3 #define oxide_07_white #c0c5ce #define oxide_08_bright_black #5c5c5c #define oxide_15_bright_white #f3f4f5 #: }}} #: Advanced {{{ shell . #: The shell program to execute. The default value of . means to use #: whatever shell is set as the default shell for the current user. #: Note that on macOS if you change this, you might need to add #: --login to ensure that the shell starts in interactive mode and #: reads its startup rc files. editor . #: The console editor to use when editing the kitty config file or #: similar tasks. A value of . means to use the environment variables #: VISUAL and EDITOR in that order. Note that this environment #: variable has to be set not just in your shell startup scripts but #: system-wide, otherwise kitty will not see it. close_on_child_death no #: Close the window when the child process (shell) exits. If no (the #: default), the terminal will remain open when the child exits as #: long as there are still processes outputting to the terminal (for #: example disowned or backgrounded processes). If yes, the window #: will close as soon as the child process exits. Note that setting it #: to yes means that any background processes still using the terminal #: can fail silently because their stdout/stderr/stdin no longer work. allow_remote_control no #: Allow other programs to control kitty. If you turn this on other #: programs can control all aspects of kitty, including sending text #: to kitty windows, opening new windows, closing windows, reading the #: content of windows, etc. Note that this even works over ssh #: connections. You can chose to either allow any program running #: within kitty to control it, with yes or only programs that connect #: to the socket specified with the kitty --listen-on command line #: option, if you use the value socket-only. The latter is useful if #: you want to prevent programs running on a remote computer over ssh #: from controlling kitty. # env #: Specify environment variables to set in all child processes. Note #: that environment variables are expanded recursively, so if you #: use:: #: env MYVAR1=a #: env MYVAR2=${MYVAR1}/${HOME}/b #: The value of MYVAR2 will be a//b. update_check_interval 24 #: Periodically check if an update to kitty is available. If an update #: is found a system notification is displayed informing you of the #: available update. The default is to check every 24 hrs, set to zero #: to disable. startup_session none #: Path to a session file to use for all kitty instances. Can be #: overridden by using the kitty --session command line option for #: individual instances. See #: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/index.html#sessions in the kitty #: documentation for details. Note that relative paths are interpreted #: with respect to the kitty config directory. Environment variables #: in the path are expanded. clipboard_control write-clipboard write-primary #: Allow programs running in kitty to read and write from the #: clipboard. You can control exactly which actions are allowed. The #: set of possible actions is: write-clipboard read-clipboard write- #: primary read-primary. You can additionally specify no-append to #: disable kitty's protocol extension for clipboard concatenation. The #: default is to allow writing to the clipboard and primary selection #: with concatenation enabled. Note that enabling the read #: functionality is a security risk as it means that any program, even #: one running on a remote server via SSH can read your clipboard. #term xterm-kitty #: The value of the TERM environment variable to set. Changing this #: can break many terminal programs, only change it if you know what #: you are doing, not because you read some advice on Stack Overflow #: to change it. The TERM variable is used by various programs to get #: information about the capabilities and behavior of the terminal. If #: you change it, depending on what programs you run, and how #: different the terminal you are changing it to is, various things #: from key-presses, to colors, to various advanced features may not #: work. #: }}} #: OS specific tweaks {{{ macos_titlebar_color system #: Change the color of the kitty window's titlebar on macOS. A value #: of system means to use the default system color, a value of #: background means to use the background color of the currently #: active window and finally you can use an arbitrary color, such as #: #12af59 or red. WARNING: This option works by using a hack, as #: there is no proper Cocoa API for it. It sets the background color #: of the entire window and makes the titlebar transparent. As such it #: is incompatible with background_opacity. If you want to use both, #: you are probably better off just hiding the titlebar with #: hide_window_decorations. macos_option_as_alt no #: Use the option key as an alt key. With this set to no, kitty will #: use the macOS native Option+Key = unicode character behavior. This #: will break any Alt+key keyboard shortcuts in your terminal #: programs, but you can use the macOS unicode input technique. You #: can use the values: left, right, or both to use only the left, #: right or both Option keys as Alt, instead. macos_hide_from_tasks no #: Hide the kitty window from running tasks (Option+Tab) on macOS. macos_quit_when_last_window_closed no #: Have kitty quit when all the top-level windows are closed. By #: default, kitty will stay running, even with no open windows, as is #: the expected behavior on macOS. macos_window_resizable yes #: Disable this if you want kitty top-level (OS) windows to not be #: resizable on macOS. macos_thicken_font 0 #: Draw an extra border around the font with the given width, to #: increase legibility at small font sizes. For example, a value of #: 0.75 will result in rendering that looks similar to sub-pixel #: antialiasing at common font sizes. macos_traditional_fullscreen no #: Use the traditional full-screen transition, that is faster, but #: less pretty. macos_show_window_title_in all #: Show or hide the window title in the macOS window or menu-bar. A #: value of window will show the title of the currently active window #: at the top of the macOS window. A value of menubar will show the #: title of the currently active window in the macOS menu-bar, making #: use of otherwise wasted space. all will show the title everywhere #: and none hides the title in the window and the menu-bar. macos_custom_beam_cursor no #: Enable/disable custom mouse cursor for macOS that is easier to see #: on both light and dark backgrounds. WARNING: this might make your #: mouse cursor invisible on dual GPU machines. linux_display_server auto #: Choose between Wayland and X11 backends. By default, an appropriate #: backend based on the system state is chosen automatically. Set it #: to x11 or wayland to force the choice. #: }}} #: Keyboard shortcuts {{{ #: For a list of key names, see: GLFW keys #: . The name to #: use is the part after the GLFW_KEY_ prefix. For a list of modifier #: names, see: GLFW mods #: #: On Linux you can also use XKB key names to bind keys that are not #: supported by GLFW. See XKB keys #: for a list of key names. The name to use is the part #: after the XKB_KEY_ prefix. Note that you should only use an XKB key #: name for keys that are not present in the list of GLFW keys. #: Finally, you can use raw system key codes to map keys. To see the #: system key code for a key, start kitty with the kitty --debug- #: keyboard option. Then kitty will output some debug text for every #: key event. In that text look for ``native_code`` the value of that #: becomes the key name in the shortcut. For example: #: .. code-block:: none #: on_key_input: glfw key: 65 native_code: 0x61 action: PRESS mods: 0x0 text: 'a' #: Here, the key name for the A key is 0x61 and you can use it with:: #: map ctrl+0x61 something #: to map ctrl+a to something. #: You can use the special action no_op to unmap a keyboard shortcut #: that is assigned in the default configuration:: #: map kitty_mod+space no_op #: You can combine multiple actions to be triggered by a single #: shortcut, using the syntax below:: #: map key combine action1 action2 action3 ... #: For example:: #: map kitty_mod+e combine : new_window : next_layout #: this will create a new window and switch to the next available #: layout #: You can use multi-key shortcuts using the syntax shown below:: #: map key1>key2>key3 action #: For example:: #: map ctrl+f>2 set_font_size 20 kitty_mod ctrl+shift #: The value of kitty_mod is used as the modifier for all default #: shortcuts, you can change it in your kitty.conf to change the #: modifiers for all the default shortcuts. clear_all_shortcuts no #: You can have kitty remove all shortcut definition seen up to this #: point. Useful, for instance, to remove the default shortcuts. # kitten_alias hints hints --hints-offset=0 #: You can create aliases for kitten names, this allows overriding the #: defaults for kitten options and can also be used to shorten #: repeated mappings of the same kitten with a specific group of #: options. For example, the above alias changes the default value of #: kitty +kitten hints --hints-offset to zero for all mappings, #: including the builtin ones. #: Clipboard {{{ map kitty_mod+c copy_to_clipboard #: There is also a copy_or_interrupt action that can be optionally #: mapped to Ctrl+c. It will copy only if there is a selection and #: send an interrupt otherwise. map kitty_mod+v paste_from_clipboard map kitty_mod+s paste_from_selection map shift+insert paste_from_selection map kitty_mod+o pass_selection_to_program #: You can also pass the contents of the current selection to any #: program using pass_selection_to_program. By default, the system's #: open program is used, but you can specify your own, the selection #: will be passed as a command line argument to the program, for #: example:: #: map kitty_mod+o pass_selection_to_program firefox #: You can pass the current selection to a terminal program running in #: a new kitty window, by using the @selection placeholder:: #: map kitty_mod+y new_window less @selection #: }}} #: Scrolling {{{ map kitty_mod+up scroll_line_up map kitty_mod+k scroll_line_up map kitty_mod+down scroll_line_down map kitty_mod+j scroll_line_down map kitty_mod+page_up scroll_page_up map kitty_mod+page_down scroll_page_down map kitty_mod+home scroll_home map kitty_mod+end scroll_end map kitty_mod+h show_scrollback #: You can pipe the contents of the current screen + history buffer as #: STDIN to an arbitrary program using the ``launch`` function. For #: example, the following opens the scrollback buffer in less in an #: overlay window:: #: map f1 launch --stdin-source=@screen_scrollback --stdin-add-formatting --type=overlay less +G -R #: For more details on piping screen and buffer contents to external #: programs, see launch. #: }}} #: Window management {{{ map kitty_mod+enter new_window #: You can open a new window running an arbitrary program, for #: example:: #: map kitty_mod+y launch mutt #: You can open a new window with the current working directory set to #: the working directory of the current window using:: #: map ctrl+alt+enter launch --cwd=current #: You can open a new window that is allowed to control kitty via the #: kitty remote control facility by prefixing the command line with @. #: Any programs running in that window will be allowed to control #: kitty. For example:: #: map ctrl+enter launch --allow-remote-control some_program #: You can open a new window next to the currently active window or as #: the first window, with:: #: map ctrl+n launch --location=neighbor some_program #: map ctrl+f launch --location=first some_program #: For more details, see launch. map kitty_mod+n new_os_window #: Works like new_window above, except that it opens a top level OS #: kitty window. In particular you can use new_os_window_with_cwd to #: open a window with the current working directory. map kitty_mod+w close_window map kitty_mod+] next_window map kitty_mod+[ previous_window map kitty_mod+f move_window_forward map kitty_mod+b move_window_backward map kitty_mod+` move_window_to_top map kitty_mod+r start_resizing_window map kitty_mod+1 first_window map kitty_mod+2 second_window map kitty_mod+3 third_window map kitty_mod+4 fourth_window map kitty_mod+5 fifth_window map kitty_mod+6 sixth_window map kitty_mod+7 seventh_window map kitty_mod+8 eighth_window map kitty_mod+9 ninth_window map kitty_mod+0 tenth_window #: }}} #: Tab management {{{ map kitty_mod+right next_tab map kitty_mod+left previous_tab map kitty_mod+t new_tab map kitty_mod+q close_tab map kitty_mod+. move_tab_forward map kitty_mod+, move_tab_backward map kitty_mod+alt+t set_tab_title #: You can also create shortcuts to go to specific tabs, with 1 being #: the first tab, 2 the second tab and -1 being the previously active #: tab:: #: map ctrl+alt+1 goto_tab 1 #: map ctrl+alt+2 goto_tab 2 #: Just as with new_window above, you can also pass the name of #: arbitrary commands to run when using new_tab and use #: new_tab_with_cwd. Finally, if you want the new tab to open next to #: the current tab rather than at the end of the tabs list, use:: #: map ctrl+t new_tab !neighbor [optional cmd to run] #: }}} #: Layout management {{{ map kitty_mod+l next_layout #: You can also create shortcuts to switch to specific layouts:: #: map ctrl+alt+t goto_layout tall #: map ctrl+alt+s goto_layout stack #: Similarly, to switch back to the previous layout:: #: map ctrl+alt+p last_used_layout #: }}} #: Font sizes {{{ #: You can change the font size for all top-level kitty OS windows at #: a time or only the current one. map kitty_mod+equal change_font_size all +2.0 map kitty_mod+minus change_font_size all -2.0 map kitty_mod+backspace change_font_size all 0 #: To setup shortcuts for specific font sizes:: #: map kitty_mod+f6 change_font_size all 10.0 #: To setup shortcuts to change only the current OS window's font #: size:: #: map kitty_mod+f6 change_font_size current 10.0 #: }}} #: Select and act on visible text {{{ #: Use the hints kitten to select text and either pass it to an #: external program or insert it into the terminal or copy it to the #: clipboard. map kitty_mod+e kitten hints #: Open a currently visible URL using the keyboard. The program used #: to open the URL is specified in open_url_with. map kitty_mod+p>f kitten hints --type path --program - #: Select a path/filename and insert it into the terminal. Useful, for #: instance to run git commands on a filename output from a previous #: git command. map kitty_mod+p>shift+f kitten hints --type path #: Select a path/filename and open it with the default open program. map kitty_mod+p>l kitten hints --type line --program - #: Select a line of text and insert it into the terminal. Use for the #: output of things like: ls -1 map kitty_mod+p>w kitten hints --type word --program - #: Select words and insert into terminal. map kitty_mod+p>h kitten hints --type hash --program - #: Select something that looks like a hash and insert it into the #: terminal. Useful with git, which uses sha1 hashes to identify #: commits #: The hints kitten has many more modes of operation that you can map #: to different shortcuts. For a full description see kittens/hints. #: }}} #: Miscellaneous {{{ map kitty_mod+f11 toggle_fullscreen map kitty_mod+f10 toggle_maximized map kitty_mod+u kitten unicode_input map kitty_mod+f2 edit_config_file map kitty_mod+escape kitty_shell window #: Open the kitty shell in a new window/tab/overlay/os_window to #: control kitty using commands. map kitty_mod+a>m set_background_opacity +0.1 map kitty_mod+a>l set_background_opacity -0.1 map kitty_mod+a>1 set_background_opacity 1 map kitty_mod+a>d set_background_opacity default map kitty_mod+delete clear_terminal reset active #: You can create shortcuts to clear/reset the terminal. For example:: #: # Reset the terminal #: map kitty_mod+f9 clear_terminal reset active #: # Clear the terminal screen by erasing all contents #: map kitty_mod+f10 clear_terminal clear active #: # Clear the terminal scrollback by erasing it #: map kitty_mod+f11 clear_terminal scrollback active #: # Scroll the contents of the screen into the scrollback #: map kitty_mod+f12 clear_terminal scroll active #: If you want to operate on all windows instead of just the current #: one, use all instead of active. #: It is also possible to remap Ctrl+L to both scroll the current #: screen contents into the scrollback buffer and clear the screen, #: instead of just clearing the screen:: #: map ctrl+l combine : clear_terminal scroll active : send_text normal,application \x0c #: You can tell kitty to send arbitrary (UTF-8) encoded text to the #: client program when pressing specified shortcut keys. For example:: #: map ctrl+alt+a send_text all Special text #: This will send "Special text" when you press the ctrl+alt+a key #: combination. The text to be sent is a python string literal so you #: can use escapes like \x1b to send control codes or \u21fb to send #: unicode characters (or you can just input the unicode characters #: directly as UTF-8 text). The first argument to send_text is the #: keyboard modes in which to activate the shortcut. The possible #: values are normal or application or kitty or a comma separated #: combination of them. The special keyword all means all modes. The #: modes normal and application refer to the DECCKM cursor key mode #: for terminals, and kitty refers to the special kitty extended #: keyboard protocol. #: Another example, that outputs a word and then moves the cursor to #: the start of the line (same as pressing the Home key):: #: map ctrl+alt+a send_text normal Word\x1b[H #: map ctrl+alt+a send_text application Word\x1bOH #: }}} # }}}