From e71c432b7cd7c957959b7132728321067a916e0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 20:13:16 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 kitty/child.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kitty/child.py b/kitty/child.py
index 0819c376e..5f3f67c16 100644
--- a/kitty/child.py
+++ b/kitty/child.py
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ class Child:
         self.allow_remote_control = False
         if argv and argv[0] == '@':
             self.allow_remote_control = True
-            argv = argv[1:]
+            if len(argv) > 1:
+                argv = argv[1:]
         self.argv = argv
         if cwd_from is not None:
             try: