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Recent major new features
---------------------------
Access kitty with a single keypress [0.42]
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.. include:: quake-screenshots.rst
kitty now has a Quake like floating, translucent terminal window, so you can access
all that kitty goodness instantly with a single keypress.
See the screenshots on the side and head over to the :doc:`kitten page for details
on how to set it up </kittens/quick-access-terminal>`.
Multiple sized text [0.40]
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0.42.0 [future]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- A new :doc:`kitten quick-access-terminal </kittens/quick-access-terminal>` can now be used to :ref:`quake`
- A new kitten: :doc:`quick-access-terminal </kittens/quick-access-terminal>` to :ref:`quake`
- The :doc:`panel kitten </kittens/panel>` now works on macOS as well as Wayland (:iss:`2590`)

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Overview
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.. include:: ../quake-screenshots.rst
Draw the desktop wallpaper or docks and panels using arbitrary
terminal programs, For example, have `btop
<https://github.com/aristocratos/btop>`__ or `cava
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It is useful for showing status information or notifications on your desktop
using terminal programs instead of GUI toolkits.
.. only:: not man
.. sidebar::
**Screenshots**
.. figure:: ../screenshots/quake-macos.webp
:alt: Screenshot, showing the kitty floating quick access terminal above the background which is the program ``btop``, running inside kitty, on macOS
:align: center
:width: 100%
macOS
.. figure:: ../screenshots/quake-hypr.webp
:alt: Screenshot, showing the kitty floating quick access terminal above the background which is the program ``btop``, running inside kitty, on Hyprland in Linux
:align: center
:width: 100%
Linux
.. figure:: ../screenshots/panel.png
:alt: Screenshot, showing a sample panel
:align: center
:width: 100%
A sample panel on Linux
How the screenshots were generated is :ref:`described below
<quake_ss>`.
The screenshot to the side shows some uses of the panel kitten to draw various
desktop components such as the background, a quick access floating terminal and

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.. only:: not man
.. sidebar::
**Screenshots**
.. figure:: ../screenshots/quake-macos.webp
:alt: Screenshot, showing the kitty floating quick access terminal above the background which is the program ``btop``, running inside kitty, on macOS
:align: center
:width: 100%
macOS
.. figure:: ../screenshots/quake-hypr.webp
:alt: Screenshot, showing the kitty floating quick access terminal above the background which is the program ``btop``, running inside kitty, on Hyprland in Linux
:align: center
:width: 100%
Linux
How the screenshots were generated is :ref:`described in the panel
kitten docs <quake_ss>`.
.. include:: ../quake-screenshots.rst
.. versionadded:: 0.42.0
Works on macOS and Wayland, except for GNOME.

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.. only:: not man
.. sidebar::
**Screenshots**
.. figure:: /screenshots/quake-macos.webp
:alt: Screenshot, showing the kitty floating quick access terminal above the background which is the program btop, running inside kitty, on macOS
:align: center
:width: 100%
macOS
.. figure:: /screenshots/quake-hypr.webp
:alt: Screenshot, showing the kitty floating quick access terminal above the background which is the program btop, running inside kitty, on Hyprland in Linux
:align: center
:width: 100%
Linux
.. figure:: /screenshots/panel.png
:alt: Screenshot, showing a sample panel
:align: center
:width: 100%
A sample panel on Linux
How the screenshots :ref:`were generated <quake_ss>`.