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If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

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.github	Bump github/codeql-action from 4.37.9 to 4.38.0 in the actions group	2026-09-21 03:47:02 +00:00
3rdparty	autoformat	2026-08-05 05:32:56 +05:30
bypy	also fix pipeline file retention in frozen builds and add test for it	2026-09-24 09:49:33 +05:30
docs	Merge branch 'pr10526'	2026-09-24 19:50:46 +05:30
gen	Cleanup previous PR and make VS15 on explicit width cell behavior consistent with VS16	2026-09-18 22:59:19 +05:30
glad	autoformat	2026-08-05 05:32:56 +05:30
glfw	autoformat	2026-09-19 15:23:24 +05:30
kittens	Fix #10517	2026-09-23 10:44:08 +05:30
kitty	Fix indeterminate progress bar stopping when the window is idle	2026-09-24 09:20:03 -06:00
kitty_tests	Cleanup previous PR handling multi line vertical tab bar entries better	2026-09-24 19:55:45 +05:30
logo	autoformat	2026-08-05 05:32:56 +05:30
shell-integration	Also use diskutil in a couple more scripts	2026-09-24 09:32:05 +05:30
terminfo	Update Se terminfo entry to reset cursor to configured default	2026-04-26 17:50:16 -05:00
tools	Completion: Do not emit multi line candidates for fish	2026-09-24 14:48:28 -04:00
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.clang-format-for-slang	Prepare for autoformat of .slang files	2026-08-10 22:03:38 +05:30
.clang-format-ignore	Try newer clang-format installed via pip	2026-08-05 20:15:07 +05:30
.editorconfig	Fix indentation in codeql yml file	2025-04-14 10:21:10 +05:30
.gitattributes	Load GLSL binding information at runtime rather than writing it to a generated C header	2026-08-05 05:32:55 +05:30
.gitignore	Agent neutral instructions	2026-07-06 11:18:16 +05:30
__main__.py	autoformat	2026-08-05 05:32:56 +05:30
autoformat	Prevent clang-format from zeroing files	2026-08-11 16:57:43 +05:30
benchmark.py	Throughput improvements when processing large blocks of text	2026-08-16 17:47:56 +05:30
Brewfile	See if dropping pkgconf fixes CI build	2024-11-23 19:48:05 +05:30
build-terminfo	Make the terminfo database available in the compiled module	2024-03-21 10:16:50 +05:30
CHANGELOG.rst	Use new URL scheme and define the kitty website centrally as much as possible	2021-07-27 09:03:11 +05:30
CONTRIBUTING.md	...	2026-08-26 06:01:00 +05:30
count-lines-of-code	Get count-lines-of-code to also count .slang files (as HLSL)	2026-08-12 10:30:35 +05:30
dev.sh	Update docs for new develop builds	2023-07-29 14:16:25 +05:30
embeds.go	Code to serialize/unserialize loaded images	2025-10-07 17:25:47 +05:30
go.mod	Fix #10517	2026-09-23 10:44:08 +05:30
go.sum	Fix #10517	2026-09-23 10:44:08 +05:30
INSTALL.md	Format the INSTALL.md links	2021-09-23 20:31:13 +05:30
key_encoding.json	Add JSON definition of key encoding	2018-02-07 14:39:11 +05:30
LICENSE	Update link	2021-09-28 14:23:49 +05:30
local-agent.md	...	2026-08-07 09:26:06 +05:30
Makefile	Update docs for new develop builds	2023-07-29 14:16:25 +05:30
publish.py	autoformat	2026-08-05 05:32:56 +05:30
pyproject.toml	autoformat	2026-08-05 07:16:05 +05:30
README.asciidoc	Update some docs	2025-10-07 20:20:19 +05:30
rsync-and-build.sh	Exclude shaders from rsync	2026-08-11 14:03:37 +05:30
SECURITY.md	...	2025-09-14 21:31:43 +05:30
session.vim	Switch to LSP for mypy	2024-03-28 19:36:07 +05:30
setup.py	Fix pipeline files not being added when building package	2026-09-23 10:38:09 +05:30
shell.nix	...	2026-08-09 22:12:20 +05:30
staticcheck.conf	configure staticcheck	2022-11-14 15:42:01 +05:30
test.py	Dont change the env for go tests	2022-11-14 15:41:53 +05:30
update-on-ox	use diskutil instead of hdiutil in update-on-ox as the latter is deprecated in macOS 27. Sigh.	2026-09-24 09:25:37 +05:30

README.asciidoc

= kitty - the fast, feature-rich, cross-platform, GPU based terminal

If you live in the terminal, *kitty* is made for **you**!

See https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/[the kitty website].

image:https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/workflows/CI/badge.svg["Build status", link="https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/actions?query=workflow%3ACI"]

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/[Frequently Asked Questions]

To ask other questions about kitty usage, use either the https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/[discussions on GitHub] or the
https://www.reddit.com/r/KittyTerminal[Reddit community]

Packaging status in various repositories:

image:https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/kitty-terminal.svg?columns=3&header=kitty["Packaging status", link="https://repology.org/project/kitty-terminal/versions"]