Kitty: The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator

Afaik the director has been a dbag with his projects re contributors. Calibre and kitty.<p>It is his project and he doesnt owe any one anything, bit i would take my Limited OSS Aattention elsewhere.

It&#x27;s a very fast terminal but has some graphical artifacts in vim for me with integrated terminal.<p>I use alacritty now. I also used wezterm for a while, it&#x27;s really good but feels slower.<p>Overall we are spoiled with choice. :)

My favourite part of kitty is the &quot;grabbers&quot;, like &quot;ctrl+shift+p f&quot; pops up vim-sneak like tags on all the file paths visible in the terminal. Swap f for h and it will let you select a hash. I would love it if that became a standard across terminals

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wez&#x2F;wezterm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wez&#x2F;wezterm</a> is another great option. I find it&#x27;s configuration is a lot simpler (and it&#x27;s in lua) and it&#x27;s also very fast.

Is this related to Kitty, the Putty fork?

I made the switch from iTerm2 last week and loving how blazing fast kitty is. I also found some kitty.conf files written for iTerm users so I felt right at home pretty quickly.<p>The only feature I miss from iTerm2 is the ability to maximize a pane (on iTerm the default keybinding is cmd+enter) but I&#x27;ve read the stack layout mode can emulate that on kitty (still need to try it out and get a sense of UX) but it&#x27;s not a deal-breaker for me.

The killer feature of Kitty for me is that is replaces tmux with splits and layouts. It&#x27;s also got great ligature support.

What is the virtue of a GPU-based terminal vs. non-GPU-based terminal? I&#x27;m not grasping what &quot;GPU-based&quot; means here. The software must still load from storage or net to an OS layer, which still runs on a CPU.

Zutty is also cool: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomscii.sig7.se&#x2F;zutty&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomscii.sig7.se&#x2F;zutty&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s correct (like XTerm) while still being very fast.