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kitty - A terminal emulator
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[](https://travis-ci.org/kovidgoyal/kitty)
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Major features:
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* Uses OpenGL+FreeType for rendering, does not depend on any GUI toolkits.
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* Supports tiling multiple terminal windows side by side in different layouts
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without needing to use an extra program like tmux
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* Supports all modern terminal features: unicode, true-color, mouse protocol,
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focus tracking, bracketed paste and so on.
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* Easily hackable (UI layer written in python, inner loops in C for speed).
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Less than ten thousand lines of code.
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* Rendering of text is done in an actual character grid, so the common
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problems with most Terminals when using wide characters/complex scripts do
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not occur. The downside is that scripts with complex glyph layout, such as
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Arabic do not render well.
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Installation
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kitty is designed to run from source, for easy hackability. Make sure the
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following dependencies are installed first:
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* python >= 3.5
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* glew >= 2.0
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* glfw-dev >= 3.2
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* freetype
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* fontconfig
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* gcc (required for building, clang should also work, but it is not tested)
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* pkg-config (required for building)
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Install kitty with:
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git clone https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty && cd kitty
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Now build the C parts of kitty with the following command:
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python3 setup.py build
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You can run kitty, as:
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python3 /path/to/kitty/folder
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Configuration
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---------------
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kitty is highly customizable, everything from keyboard shortcuts, to painting
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frames-per-second. See the heavily commented [default config file](kitty/kitty.conf).
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By default kitty looks for a config file in the OS
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config directory (usually `~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf` on linux) but you can pass
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a specific path via the `--config` option.
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Resources on terminal behavior
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http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes
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http://vt100.net/
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