# vim:fileencoding=utf-8: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 Fira Code 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. When bold_font or bold_italic_font is set to #: auto on macOS, the priority of bold fonts is semi-bold, bold, #: heavy. 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 12.0 #: Font size (in pts) force_ltr no #: kitty does not support BIDI (bidirectional text), however, for RTL #: scripts, words are automatically displayed in RTL. That is to say, #: in an RTL script, the words "HELLO WORLD" display in kitty as #: "WORLD HELLO", and if you try to select a substring of an RTL- #: shaped string, you will get the character that would be there had #: the the string been LTR. For example, assuming the Hebrew word #: ירושלים, selecting the character that on the screen appears to be ם #: actually writes into the selection buffer the character י. kitty's #: default behavior is useful in conjunction with a filter to reverse #: the word order, however, if you wish to manipulate RTL glyphs, it #: can be very challenging to work with, so this option is provided to #: turn it off. Furthermore, this option can be used with the command #: line program GNU FriBidi #: to get BIDI #: support, because it will force kitty to always treat the text as #: LTR, which FriBidi expects for terminals. 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). adjust_baseline 0 #: Adjust the vertical alignment of text (the height in the cell at #: which text is positioned). You can use either numbers, which are #: interpreted as pixels or a percentages (number followed by %), #: which are interpreted as the percentage of the line height. A #: positive value moves the baseline up, and a negative value moves #: them down. The underline and strikethrough positions are adjusted #: accordingly. symbol_map #: E.g. symbol_map U+E0A0-U+E0A3,U+E0C0-U+E0C7 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 narrow_symbols #: E.g. narrow_symbols U+E0A0-U+E0A3,U+E0C0-U+E0C7 1 #: Usually, for Private Use Unicode characters and some symbol/dingbat #: characters, if the character is followed by one or more spaces, #: kitty will use those extra cells to render the character larger, if #: the character in the font has a wide aspect ratio. Using this #: setting you can force kitty to restrict the specified code points #: to render in the specified number of cells (defaulting to one #: cell). Syntax is:: #: narrow_symbols codepoints Optionally the number of cells 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 #: Note that this refers to programming ligatures, typically #: implemented using the calt OpenType feature. For disabling general #: ligatures, use the font_features setting. font_features #: E.g. font_features none #: Choose exactly which OpenType features to enable or disable. This #: is useful as some fonts might have features worthwhile in a #: terminal. For example, Fira Code Retina includes a discretionary #: feature, zero, which in that font changes the appearance of the #: zero (0), to make it more easily distinguishable from Ø. Fira Code #: Retina also includes other discretionary features known as #: Stylistic Sets which have the tags ss01 through ss20. #: For the exact syntax to use for individual features, see the #: Harfbuzz documentation . #: Note that this code is indexed by PostScript name, and not the font #: family. This allows you to define very precise feature settings; #: e.g. you can disable a feature in the italic font but not in the #: regular font. #: On Linux, these are read from the FontConfig database first and #: then this, setting is applied, so they can be configured in a #: single, central place. #: To get the PostScript name for a font, use kitty +list-fonts #: --psnames: #: .. code-block:: sh #: $ kitty +list-fonts --psnames | grep Fira #: Fira Code #: Fira Code Bold (FiraCode-Bold) #: Fira Code Light (FiraCode-Light) #: Fira Code Medium (FiraCode-Medium) #: Fira Code Regular (FiraCode-Regular) #: Fira Code Retina (FiraCode-Retina) #: The part in brackets is the PostScript name. #: Enable alternate zero and oldstyle numerals:: #: font_features FiraCode-Retina +zero +onum #: Enable only alternate zero:: #: font_features FiraCode-Retina +zero #: Disable the normal ligatures, but keep the calt feature which (in #: this font) breaks up monotony:: #: font_features TT2020StyleB-Regular -liga +calt #: In conjunction with force_ltr, you may want to disable Arabic #: shaping entirely, and only look at their isolated forms if they #: show up in a document. You can do this with e.g.:: #: font_features UnifontMedium +isol -medi -fina -init 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. If set to the special value none the cursor #: will be rendered with a "reverse video" effect. It's color will be #: the color of the text in the cell it is over and the text will be #: rendered with the background color of the cell. Note that if the #: program running in the terminal sets a cursor color, this takes #: precedence. Also, the cursor colors are modified if the cell #: background and foreground colors have very low contrast. 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. Note that if cursor is set to none #: then this setting is ignored. cursor_shape block #: The cursor shape can be one of (block, beam, underline). Note that #: when reloading the config this will be changed only if the cursor #: shape has not been set by the program running in the terminal. This #: sets the default cursor shape. Applications running in the terminal #: can override it. In particular, #: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/ in kitty sets #: the cursor shape to beam at shell prompts. You can avoid this by #: setting shell_integration to no-cursor. cursor_beam_thickness 1.5 #: Defines the thickness of the beam cursor (in pts) cursor_underline_thickness 2.0 #: Defines the thickness of the underline cursor (in pts) 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 performance of the terminal and #: also use large amounts of RAM. Instead, consider using #: scrollback_pager_history_size. Note that on config reload if this #: is changed it will only affect newly created windows, not existing #: ones. 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. Similarly CURSOR_LINE and #: CURSOR_COLUMN will be replaced by the current cursor position or #: set to 0 if there is no cursor, for example, when showing the last #: command output. 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 the data in UTF-8, so approximatively 10000 #: lines per megabyte at 100 chars per line, for pure ASCII, #: unformatted text. A value of zero or less disables this feature. #: The maximum allowed size is 4GB. Note that on config reload if this #: is changed it will only affect newly created windows, not existing #: ones. scrollback_fill_enlarged_window no #: Fill new space with lines from the scrollback buffer after #: enlarging a window. 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. See also #: wheel_scroll_min_lines. wheel_scroll_min_lines 1 #: The minimum number of lines scrolled by the mouse wheel. The scroll #: multiplier only takes effect after it #: reaches this number. Note that this is only used for low precision #: scrolling devices like wheel mice that scroll by very small amounts #: when using the wheel. With a negative number, the minimum number of #: lines will always be added. 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, straight, double, curly, dotted, dashed 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 (open on macOS and xdg-open on Linux). url_prefixes file ftp ftps gemini git gopher http https irc ircs kitty mailto news sftp ssh #: The set of URL prefixes to look for when detecting a URL under the #: mouse cursor. detect_urls yes #: Detect URLs under the mouse. Detected URLs are highlighted with an #: underline and the mouse cursor becomes a hand over them. Even if #: this option is disabled, URLs are still clickable. url_excluded_characters #: Additional characters to be disallowed from URLs, when detecting #: URLs under the mouse cursor. By default, all characters legal in #: URLs are allowed. copy_on_select yes #: 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 shift+cmd+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 smart #: 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. 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. Valid values are: arrow, beam and hand default_pointer_shape beam #: The default shape of the mouse pointer. Valid values are: arrow, #: beam and hand pointer_shape_when_dragging beam #: The default shape of the mouse pointer when dragging across text. #: Valid values are: arrow, beam and hand #: Mouse actions {{{ #: Mouse buttons can be remapped to perform arbitrary actions. The #: syntax for doing so is: #: .. code-block:: none #: mouse_map button-name event-type modes action #: Where ``button-name`` is one of ``left``, ``middle``, ``right`` or #: ``b1 ... b8`` with added keyboard modifiers, for example: #: ``ctrl+shift+left`` refers to holding the ctrl+shift keys while #: clicking with the left mouse button. The number ``b1 ... b8`` can #: be used to refer to upto eight buttons on a mouse. #: ``event-type`` is one ``press``, ``release``, ``doublepress``, #: ``triplepress``, ``click`` and ``doubleclick``. ``modes`` #: indicates whether the action is performed when the mouse is grabbed #: by the program running in the terminal, or not. It can have one or #: more or the values, ``grabbed,ungrabbed``. ``grabbed`` refers to #: when the program running in the terminal has requested mouse #: events. Note that the click and double click events have a delay of #: click_interval to disambiguate from double and triple presses. #: You can run kitty with the kitty --debug-input command line option #: to see mouse events. See the builtin actions below to get a sense #: of what is possible. #: If you want to unmap an action map it to ``no-op``. For example, to #: disable opening of URLs with a plain click:: #: mouse_map left click ungrabbed no-op #: .. note:: #: Once a selection is started, releasing the button that started it will #: automatically end it and no release event will be dispatched. clear_all_mouse_actions no #: You can have kitty remove all mouse actions seen up to this point. #: Useful, for instance, to remove the default mouse actions. #: Click the link under the mouse or move the cursor mouse_map left click ungrabbed mouse_handle_click selection link prompt #:: First check for a selection and if one exists do nothing. Then #:: check for a link under the mouse cursor and if one exists, click #:: it. Finally check if the click happened at the current shell #:: prompt and if so, move the cursor to the click location. Note #:: that this requires shell-integration to work. #: Click the link under the mouse or move the cursor even when grabbed mouse_map shift+left click grabbed,ungrabbed mouse_handle_click selection link prompt #:: Same as above, except that the action is performed even when the #:: mouse is grabbed by the program running in the terminal. #: Click the link under the mouse cursor mouse_map ctrl+shift+left release grabbed,ungrabbed mouse_handle_click link #:: Variant with ctrl+shift is present because the simple click based #:: version has an unavoidable delay of click_interval, to #:: disambiguate clicks from double clicks. #: Discard press event for link click mouse_map ctrl+shift+left press grabbed discard_event #:: Prevent this press event from being sent to the program that has #:: grabbed the mouse, as the corresponding release event is used to #:: open a URL. #: Paste from the primary selection mouse_map middle release ungrabbed paste_from_selection #: Start selecting text mouse_map left press ungrabbed mouse_selection normal #: Start selecting text in a rectangle mouse_map ctrl+alt+left press ungrabbed mouse_selection rectangle #: Select a word mouse_map left doublepress ungrabbed mouse_selection word #: Select a line mouse_map left triplepress ungrabbed mouse_selection line #:: Select the entire line #: Select line from point mouse_map ctrl+alt+left triplepress ungrabbed mouse_selection line_from_point #:: Select from the clicked point to the end of the line #: Extend the current selection mouse_map right press ungrabbed mouse_selection extend #:: If you want only the end of the selection to be moved instead of #:: the nearest boundary, use move-end instead of extend. #: Paste from the primary selection even when grabbed mouse_map shift+middle release ungrabbed,grabbed paste_selection mouse_map shift+middle press grabbed discard_event #: Start selecting text even when grabbed mouse_map shift+left press ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection normal #: Start selecting text in a rectangle even when grabbed mouse_map ctrl+shift+alt+left press ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection rectangle #: Select a word even when grabbed mouse_map shift+left doublepress ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection word #: Select a line even when grabbed mouse_map shift+left triplepress ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection line #:: Select the entire line #: Select line from point even when grabbed mouse_map ctrl+shift+alt+left triplepress ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection line_from_point #:: Select from the clicked point to the end of the line #: Extend the current selection even when grabbed mouse_map shift+right press ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection extend #: Show clicked command output in pager mouse_map ctrl+shift+right press ungrabbed mouse_show_command_output #:: Requires https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/ to #:: work #: }}} #: }}} #: Performance tuning {{{ repaint_delay 6 #: 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 no #: 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. visual_bell_color none #: The color used by visual bell. Set to none will fall back to #: selection background color. If you feel that the visual bell is too #: bright, you can set it to a darker color. 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 "🔔 " #: Some text or a unicode symbol to show on the tab if a window in the #: tab that does not have focus has a bell. If you want to use leading #: or trailing spaces surround the text with quotes. See #: tab_title_template for how this is rendered. #: For backwards compatibility, values of yes, y, true are converted #: to the default bell symbol and no, n, false, none are converted to #: the empty string. command_on_bell none #: Program to run when a bell occurs. The environment variable #: KITTY_CHILD_CMDLINE can be used to get the program running in the #: window in which the bell occurred. bell_path none #: Path to a sound file to play as the bell sound. If set to none, the #: system default bell sound is used. Must be in a format supported by #: the operating systems sound API, such as WAV or OGA on Linux #: (libcanberra) or AIFF, MP3 or WAV on macOS (NSSound) #: }}} #: 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. Default configuration is all #: layouts in alphabetical order. For a list of available layouts, see #: the https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/overview/#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 kitty windows in a layout with the keyboard #: (start_resizing_window). The cells value is used for horizontal #: resizing and the lines value for vertical resizing. window_border_width 0.5pt #: The width of window borders. Can be either in pixels (px) or pts #: (pt). Values in pts will be rounded to the nearest number of pixels #: based on screen resolution. If not specified the unit is assumed to #: be pts. 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 0 #: The window margin (in pts) (blank area outside the border). A #: single value sets all four sides. Two values set the vertical and #: horizontal sides. Three values set top, horizontal and bottom. Four #: values set top, right, bottom and left. single_window_margin_width -1 #: 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. A single value sets all #: four sides. Two values set the vertical and horizontal sides. Three #: values set top, horizontal and bottom. Four values set top, right, #: bottom and left. window_padding_width 0 #: The window padding (in pts) (blank area between the text and the #: window border). A single value sets all four sides. Two values set #: the vertical and horizontal sides. Three values set top, horizontal #: and bottom. Four values set top, right, bottom and left. 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) with #: yes. On macOS, titlebar-only can be used to only hide the titlebar. #: Whether this works and exactly what effect it has depends on the #: window manager/operating system. Note that the effects of changing #: this setting when reloading config are undefined. window_logo_path none #: Path to a logo image. Must be in PNG format. Relative paths are #: interpreted relative to the kitty config directory. The logo is #: displayed in a corner of every kitty window. The position is #: controlled by window_logo_position. Individual windows can be #: configured to have different logos either using the launch function #: or the remote-control facility. window_logo_position bottom-right #: Where to position the window logo in the window. The value can be #: one of: top-left, top, top-right, left, center, right, bottom-left, #: bottom, bottom-right. window_logo_alpha 0.5 #: The amount the logo should be faded into the background. With zero #: being fully faded and one being fully opaque. 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. resize_in_steps no #: Resize the OS window in steps as large as the cells, instead of #: with the usual pixel accuracy. Combined with an #: initial_window_width and initial_window_height in number of cells, #: this option can be used to keep the margins as small as possible #: when resizing the OS window. Note that this does not currently work #: on Wayland. visual_window_select_characters 1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ #: The list of characters to use for visual window selection (for #: example for selecting a window to focus with focus_visible_window). #: The value should be a series of unique numbers or alphabets, case #: insensitive, from the set [0-9A-Z]. Specify your preference as a #: string of characters. confirm_os_window_close 0 #: Ask for confirmation when closing an OS window or a Tab with at #: least this number of kitty windows in it by window manager (e.g. #: clicking the window close button or pressing the Operating system #: shortcut to close windows) or by the close_tab action. A value of #: zero disables confirmation. This confirmation also applies to #: requests to quit the entire application (all OS windows, via the #: quit action). Negative values are converted to positive ones, #: however, with https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/ #: enabled, using negative values means windows sitting at a shell #: prompt are not counted, only windows where some command is #: currently running. Note that if you want confirmation when closing #: individual windows, you can map the #: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/actions/#close-window-with- #: confirmation action. #: }}} #: 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_margin_height 0.0 0.0 #: The margin above and below the tab bar (in pts). The first number #: is the margin between the edge of the OS Window and the tab bar and #: the second number is the margin between the tab bar and the #: contents of the current tab. tab_bar_style fade #: The tab bar style, can be one of: #: fade #: Each tab's edges fade into the background color (see tab_fade) #: slant #: Tabs look like the tabs in a physical file #: separator #: Tabs are separated by a configurable separator (see tab_separator) #: powerline #: Tabs are shown as a continuous line with "fancy" separators #: (see tab_powerline_style) #: custom #: A user-supplied Python function called draw_tab is loaded from the file #: tab_bar.py in the kitty config directory. For examples of how to #: write such a function, see the functions named draw_tab_with_* in #: kitty's source code: kitty/tab_bar.py. See also #: this discussion https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/4447 #: for examples from kitty users. #: hidden #: The tab bar is hidden. If you use this, you might want to create a #: mapping for the https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/actions/#select-tab #: action which presents you with a list of tabs and allows for easy #: switching to a tab. tab_bar_align left #: The horizontal alignment of the tab bar, can be one of: left, #: center, or right. 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 right will switch to the tab to the right 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_powerline_style angled #: The powerline separator style between tabs in the tab bar when #: using powerline as the tab_bar_style, can be one of: angled, #: slanted, or round. tab_activity_symbol none #: Some text or a unicode symbol to show on the tab if a window in the #: tab that does not have focus has some activity. If you want to use #: leading or trailing spaces surround the text with quotes. See #: tab_title_template for how this is rendered. tab_title_template "{fmt.fg.red}{bell_symbol}{activity_symbol}{fmt.fg.tab}{title}" #: A template to render the tab title. The default just renders the #: title with optional symbols for bell and activity. 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. If you #: prefer to see the index as a superscript, use {sup.index}. In #: addition you can use {layout_name} for the current layout name, #: {num_windows} for the number of windows in the tab and #: {num_window_groups} for the number of window groups (not counting #: overlay windows) in the tab. Note that formatting is done by #: Python's string formatting machinery, so you can use, for instance, #: {layout_name[:2].upper()} to show only the first two letters of the #: layout name, upper-cased. If you want to style the text, you can #: use styling directives, for example: #: {fmt.fg.red}red{fmt.fg.tab}normal{fmt.bg._00FF00}green #: bg{fmt.bg.tab}. Similarly, for bold and italic: #: {fmt.bold}bold{fmt.nobold}normal{fmt.italic}italic{fmt.noitalic}. #: Note that for backward compatibility, if {bell_symbol} or #: {activity_symbol} are not present in the template, they are #: prepended to it. active_tab_title_template none #: Template to use for active tabs, if not specified falls back to #: tab_title_template. 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 tab_bar_background none #: Background color for the tab bar. Defaults to using the terminal #: background color. tab_bar_margin_color none #: Color for the tab bar margin area. Defaults to using the terminal #: background color. #: }}} #: Color scheme {{{ foreground #dddddd background #000000 #: The foreground and background colors background_opacity 0.8 #: 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 background color's opacity in #: cells that have the same background color as the default terminal #: background. 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). Changing #: this setting when reloading the config will only work if #: dynamic_background_opacity was enabled in the original config. background_image none #: Path to a background image. Must be in PNG format. background_image_layout tiled #: Whether to tile, scale or clamp the background image. The value can #: be one of tiled, mirror-tiled, scaled, clamped. background_image_linear no #: When background image is scaled, whether linear interpolation #: should be used. 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. #: Changing this setting by reloading the config is not supported. background_tint 0.0 #: How much to tint the background image by the background color. The #: tint is applied only under the text area, not margin/borders. Makes #: it easier to read the text. Tinting is done using the current #: background color for each window. This setting applies only if #: background_opacity is set and transparent windows are supported or #: background_image is set. 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 selection_background #fffacd #: The foreground and background colors for text selected with the #: mouse. Setting both of these to none will cause a "reverse video" #: effect for selections, where the selection will be the cell text #: color and the text will become the cell background color. Setting #: only selection_foreground to none will cause the foreground color #: to be used unchanged. Note that these colors can be overridden by #: the program running in the terminal. #: The color table {{{ #: The 256 terminal colors. There are 8 basic colors, each color has a #: dull and bright version, for the first 16 colors. You can set the #: remaining 240 colors as color16 to color255. color0 #000000 color8 #767676 #: black color1 #cc0403 color9 #f2201f #: red color2 #19cb00 color10 #23fd00 #: green color3 #cecb00 color11 #fffd00 #: yellow color4 #0d73cc color12 #1a8fff #: blue color5 #cb1ed1 color13 #fd28ff #: magenta color6 #0dcdcd color14 #14ffff #: cyan color7 #dddddd color15 #ffffff #: white mark1_foreground black #: Color for marks of type 1 mark1_background #98d3cb #: Color for marks of type 1 (light steel blue) mark2_foreground black #: Color for marks of type 2 mark2_background #f2dcd3 #: Color for marks of type 1 (beige) mark3_foreground black #: Color for marks of type 3 mark3_background #f274bc #: Color for marks of type 3 (violet) #: }}} #: }}} #: 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 and --interactive to ensure that the shell starts in #: interactive mode and reads its startup rc files. editor . #: The terminal editor (such as ``vim`` or ``nano``) to use when #: editing the kitty config file or similar tasks. #: The default value of . means to use the environment variables #: VISUAL and EDITOR in that order. If these variables aren't set, #: kitty will run your shell (``$SHELL -l -i -c env``) to see if your #: shell config files set VISUAL or EDITOR. If that doesn't work, #: kitty will cycle through various known editors (``vim``, ``emacs``, #: etc) and take the first one that exists on your system. close_on_child_death no #: Close the window when the child process (shell) exits. If no (the #: default), the terminal will remain open when the child exits as #: long as there are still processes outputting to the terminal (for #: example disowned or backgrounded processes). If yes, the window #: will close as soon as the child process exits. Note that setting it #: to yes means that any background processes still using the terminal #: can fail silently because their stdout/stderr/stdin no longer work. allow_remote_control no #: Allow other programs to control kitty. If you turn this on other #: programs can control all aspects of kitty, including sending text #: to kitty windows, opening new windows, closing windows, reading the #: content of windows, etc. Note that this even works over ssh #: connections. You can chose to either allow any program running #: within kitty to control it, with yes or only programs that connect #: to the socket specified with the kitty --listen-on command line #: option, if you use the value socket-only. The latter is useful if #: you want to prevent programs running on a remote computer over ssh #: from controlling kitty. Reloading the config will not affect this #: setting. listen_on none #: Tell kitty to listen to the specified unix/tcp socket for remote #: control connections. Note that this will apply to all kitty #: instances. It can be overridden by the kitty --listen-on command #: line flag. This option accepts only UNIX sockets, such as #: unix:${TEMP}/mykitty or (on Linux) unix:@mykitty. Environment #: variables are expanded. If {kitty_pid} is present then it is #: replaced by the PID of the kitty process, otherwise the PID of the #: kitty process is appended to the value, with a hyphen. This option #: is ignored unless you also set allow_remote_control to enable #: remote control. See the help for kitty --listen-on for more #: details. Changing this option by reloading the config is not #: supported. 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. Using #: VAR= will set it to the empty string and using just VAR will delete #: the variable from the child process' environment. watcher #: Path to python file which will be loaded for #: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch/#watchers. Can be specified #: more than once to load multiple watchers. The watchers will be #: added to every kitty window. Relative paths are resolved relative #: to the kitty config directory. Note that reloading the config will #: only affect windows created after the reload. exe_search_path #: Control where kitty looks to find programs to run. The default #: search order is: First search the system wide PATH, then #: ~/.local/bin and ~/bin. If not still not found, the PATH defined in #: the login shell after sourcing all its startup files is tried. #: Finally, if present, the PATH in the env option is tried. #: This option allows you to prepend, append, or remove paths from #: this search order. It can be specified multiple times for multiple #: paths. A simple path will be prepended to the search order. A path #: that starts with the + sign will be append to the search order, #: after ~/bin above. A path that starts with the - sign will be #: removed from the entire search order. For example:: #: exe_search_path /some/prepended/path #: exe_search_path +/some/appended/path #: exe_search_path -/some/excluded/path 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. Changing this option by reloading the config is not #: supported. 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/overview/#startup-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. Changing this option by #: reloading the config is not supported. clipboard_control write-clipboard write-primary read-clipboard-ask read-primary-ask #: 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 read-clipboard-ask read-primary-ask. The #: default is to allow writing to the clipboard and primary selection #: and to ask for permission when a program tries to read from the #: clipboard. Note that disabling the read confirmation is a security #: risk as it means that any program, even one running on a remote #: server via SSH can read your clipboard. See also #: clipboard_max_size. clipboard_max_size 64 #: The maximum size (in MB) of data from programs running in kitty #: that will be stored for writing to the system clipboard. See also #: clipboard_control. A value of zero means no size limit is applied. file_transfer_confirmation_bypass #: A password, that can be supplied to the file transfer kitten to #: skip the transfer confirmation prompt. This should only be used #: when initiating transfers from trusted computers, over trusted #: networks or encrypted transports, as it allows programs running on #: the remote machine to read/write to the local filesystem, without #: permission. allow_hyperlinks yes #: Process hyperlink (OSC 8) escape sequences. If disabled OSC 8 #: escape sequences are ignored. Otherwise they become clickable #: links, that you can click by with the mouse or the hints kitten #: . The special value of ``ask`` means that kitty #: will ask before opening the link when clicked. shell_integration enabled #: Enable shell integration on supported shells. This enables features #: such as jumping to previous prompts, browsing the output of the #: previous command in a pager, etc. on supported shells. Set to #: ``disabled`` to turn off shell integration, completely. See #: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/ for details. 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. Changing this option by reloading the config will only affect #: newly created windows. #: }}} #: OS specific tweaks {{{ wayland_titlebar_color system #: Change the color of the kitty window's titlebar on Wayland systems #: with client side window decorations such as GNOME. 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. 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, light or dark can #: also be used to set it explicitly. 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. Changing this setting by #: reloading the config is not supported. macos_hide_from_tasks no #: Hide the kitty window from running tasks (⌘+Tab) on macOS. Changing #: this setting by reloading the config is not supported. 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. Changing this setting by reloading the config #: will only affect newly created windows. 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. See #: :opt`macos_menubar_title_max_length` for how to control the length #: of the title in the menu bar. macos_menubar_title_max_length 0 #: The maximum number of characters from the window title to show in #: the global menubar. Values less than one mean there is no maximum. 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. Changing this setting #: by reloading the config is not supported. 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. Changing this setting by #: reloading the config is not supported. #: }}} #: Keyboard shortcuts {{{ #: Keys are identified simply by their lowercase unicode characters. #: For example: ``a`` for the A key, ``[`` for the left square bracket #: key, etc. For functional keys, such as ``Enter or Escape`` the #: names are present at https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard- #: protocol/#functional-key-definitions. For modifier keys, the names #: are ctrl (control, ⌃), shift (⇧), alt (opt, option, ⌥), super (cmd, #: command, ⌘). See also: 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 can only use an XKB key #: name for keys that are not known as GLFW keys. #: Finally, you can use raw system key codes to map keys, again only #: for keys that are not known as GLFW keys. To see the system key #: code for a key, start kitty with the kitty --debug-input 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 #: If you would like kitty to completely ignore a key event, not even #: sending it to the program running in the terminal, map it to #: discard_event:: #: map kitty_mod+f1 discard_event #: 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 #: The full list of actions that can be mapped to key presses is #: available here . 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. action_alias #: E.g. action_alias launch_tab launch --type=tab --cwd=current #: Define aliases to avoid repeating the same options in multiple #: mappings. Aliases can be defined for any action. Aliases are #: expanded recursively. For example, the above alias allows you to #: create mappings to launch a new tab in the current working #: directory without duplication:: #: map f1 launch_tab vim #: map f2 launch_tab emacs #: Similarly, to alias kitten invocation:: #: action_alias hints kitten hints --hints-offset=0 kitten_alias #: E.g. kitten_alias hints hints --hints-offset=0 #: Like action_alias above but, specifically for kittens. Generally, #: prefer to use action_alias. This option is a legacy version, #: present for backwards compatibility. It causes all invocations of #: the aliased kitten to be substituted. So the example above will #: cause all invocations of the hints kitten to have the --hints- #: offset=0 option applied. #: Clipboard {{{ #: Copy to 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. Similarly, #:: copy_and_clear_or_interrupt will copy and clear the selection or #:: send an interrupt if there is no selection. #: Paste from clipboard map kitty_mod+v paste_from_clipboard #: Paste from selection map kitty_mod+s paste_from_selection map shift+insert paste_from_selection #: Pass selection to program 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 {{{ #: Scroll line up map kitty_mod+up scroll_line_up map kitty_mod+k scroll_line_up map opt+cmd+page_up scroll_line_up map cmd+up scroll_line_up #: Scroll line down map kitty_mod+down scroll_line_down map kitty_mod+j scroll_line_down map opt+cmd+page_down scroll_line_down map cmd+down scroll_line_down #: Scroll page up map kitty_mod+page_up scroll_page_up map cmd+page_up scroll_page_up #: Scroll page down map kitty_mod+page_down scroll_page_down map cmd+page_down scroll_page_down #: Scroll to top map kitty_mod+home scroll_home map cmd+home scroll_home #: Scroll to bottom map kitty_mod+end scroll_end map cmd+end scroll_end #: Scroll to previous shell prompt map kitty_mod+z scroll_to_prompt -1 #:: Use a parameter of zero for scroll_to_prompt to scroll to the #:: last jumped to or the last clicked position. Requires #:: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/ to work. #: Scroll to next shell prompt map kitty_mod+x scroll_to_prompt 1 #: Browse scrollback buffer in pager 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. #: Browse output of the last shell command in pager map kitty_mod+g show_last_command_output #:: You can also define additional shortcuts to get the command #:: output. For example, to get the first command output on screen:: #:: map f1 show_first_command_output_on_screen #:: To get the command output that was last accessed by a keyboard #:: action or mouse action:: #:: map f1 show_last_visited_command_output #:: You can pipe the output of the last command run in the shell #:: using the launch function. For example, the following opens the #:: output in less in an overlay window:: #:: map f1 launch --stdin-source=@last_cmd_output --stdin-add-formatting --type=overlay less +G -R #:: To get the output of the first command on the screen, use #:: @first_cmd_output_on_screen. To get the output of the last jumped #:: to command, use @last_visited_cmd_output. #:: Requires https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/ to #:: work. #: }}} #: Window management {{{ #: New window map kitty_mod+enter new_window map cmd+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. #: New OS window map kitty_mod+n new_os_window map cmd+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. #: Close window map kitty_mod+w close_window map shift+cmd+d close_window #: Next window map kitty_mod+] next_window #: Previous window map kitty_mod+[ previous_window #: Move window forward map kitty_mod+f move_window_forward #: Move window backward map kitty_mod+b move_window_backward #: Move window to top map kitty_mod+` move_window_to_top #: Start resizing window map kitty_mod+r start_resizing_window map cmd+r start_resizing_window #: First window map kitty_mod+1 first_window map cmd+1 first_window #: Second window map kitty_mod+2 second_window map cmd+2 second_window #: Third window map kitty_mod+3 third_window map cmd+3 third_window #: Fourth window map kitty_mod+4 fourth_window map cmd+4 fourth_window #: Fifth window map kitty_mod+5 fifth_window map cmd+5 fifth_window #: Sixth window map kitty_mod+6 sixth_window map cmd+6 sixth_window #: Seventh window map kitty_mod+7 seventh_window map cmd+7 seventh_window #: Eight window map kitty_mod+8 eighth_window map cmd+8 eighth_window #: Ninth window map kitty_mod+9 ninth_window map cmd+9 ninth_window #: Tenth window map kitty_mod+0 tenth_window #: Visually select focus window map kitty_mod+f7 focus_visible_window #: Visually swap window with another map kitty_mod+f8 swap_with_window #: }}} #: Tab management {{{ #: Next tab map kitty_mod+right next_tab map shift+cmd+] next_tab map ctrl+tab next_tab #: Previous tab map kitty_mod+left previous_tab map shift+cmd+[ previous_tab map ctrl+shift+tab previous_tab #: New tab map kitty_mod+t new_tab map cmd+t new_tab #: Close tab map kitty_mod+q close_tab map cmd+w close_tab #: Close OS window map shift+cmd+w close_os_window #: Move tab forward map kitty_mod+. move_tab_forward #: Move tab backward map kitty_mod+, move_tab_backward #: Set tab title map kitty_mod+alt+t set_tab_title map shift+cmd+i 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, and any number larger than the last tab being the last 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 {{{ #: Next layout 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 #: There is also a toggle layout function that switches to the named #: layout or back to the previous layout if in the named layout. #: Useful to temporarily "zoom" the active window by switching to the #: stack layout:: #: map ctrl+alt+z toggle_layout stack #: }}} #: Font sizes {{{ #: You can change the font size for all top-level kitty OS windows at #: a time or only the current one. #: Increase font size map kitty_mod+equal change_font_size all +2.0 map kitty_mod+plus change_font_size all +2.0 map kitty_mod+kp_add change_font_size all +2.0 map cmd+plus change_font_size all +2.0 map cmd+equal change_font_size all +2.0 map shift+cmd+equal change_font_size all +2.0 #: Decrease font size map kitty_mod+minus change_font_size all -2.0 map kitty_mod+kp_subtract change_font_size all -2.0 map cmd+minus change_font_size all -2.0 map shift+cmd+minus change_font_size all -2.0 #: Reset font size map kitty_mod+backspace change_font_size all 0 map cmd+0 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. #: Open URL map kitty_mod+e open_url_with_hints #:: Open a currently visible URL using the keyboard. The program used #:: to open the URL is specified in open_url_with. #: Insert selected path 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. #: Open selected path map kitty_mod+p>shift+f kitten hints --type path #:: Select a path/filename and open it with the default open program. #: Insert selected line 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 #: Insert selected word map kitty_mod+p>w kitten hints --type word --program - #:: Select words and insert into terminal. #: Insert selected hash 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 #: Open the selected file at the selected line map kitty_mod+p>n kitten hints --type linenum #:: Select something that looks like filename:linenum and open it in #:: vim at the specified line number. #: Open the selected hyperlink map kitty_mod+p>y kitten hints --type hyperlink #:: Select a hyperlink (i.e. a URL that has been marked as such by #:: the terminal program, for example, by ls --hyperlink=auto). #: The hints kitten has many more modes of operation that you can map #: to different shortcuts. For a full description see kittens/hints. #: }}} #: Miscellaneous {{{ #: Toggle fullscreen map kitty_mod+f11 toggle_fullscreen map ctrl+cmd+f toggle_fullscreen #: Toggle maximized map kitty_mod+f10 toggle_maximized #: Toggle macOS secure keyboard entry map opt+cmd+s toggle_macos_secure_keyboard_entry #: Unicode input map kitty_mod+u kitten unicode_input map ctrl+cmd+space kitten unicode_input #: Edit config file map kitty_mod+f2 edit_config_file map cmd+, edit_config_file #: Open the kitty command shell map kitty_mod+escape kitty_shell window #:: Open the kitty shell in a new window/tab/overlay/os_window to #:: control kitty using commands. #: Increase background opacity map kitty_mod+a>m set_background_opacity +0.1 #: Decrease background opacity map kitty_mod+a>l set_background_opacity -0.1 #: Make background fully opaque map kitty_mod+a>1 set_background_opacity 1 #: Reset background opacity map kitty_mod+a>d set_background_opacity default #: Reset the terminal map kitty_mod+delete clear_terminal reset active map opt+cmd+r 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, for example, for ZSH add the #:: following to ~/.zshrc: #:: .. code-block:: sh #:: scroll-and-clear-screen() { #:: printf '\n%.0s' {1..$LINES} #:: zle clear-screen #:: } #:: zle -N scroll-and-clear-screen #:: bindkey '^l' scroll-and-clear-screen #: Clear up to cursor line map cmd+k clear_terminal to_cursor active #: Reload kitty.conf map kitty_mod+f5 load_config_file map ctrl+cmd+, load_config_file #:: Reload kitty.conf, applying any changes since the last time it #:: was loaded. Note that a handful of settings cannot be dynamically #:: changed and require a full restart of kitty. You can also map a #:: keybinding to load a different config file, for example:: #:: map f5 load_config /path/to/alternative/kitty.conf #:: Note that all setting from the original kitty.conf are discarded, #:: in other words the new conf settings *replace* the old ones. #: Debug kitty configuration map kitty_mod+f6 debug_config map opt+cmd+, debug_config #:: Show details about exactly what configuration kitty is running #:: with and its host environment. Useful for debugging issues. #: Send arbitrary text on key presses #:: E.g. map ctrl+shift+alt+h send_text all Hello World #:: 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 #: }}} #: }}}