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- # vim:fileencoding=utf-8:foldmethod=marker
- #: Fonts {{{
- #: kitty has very powerful font management. You can configure
- #: individual font faces and even specify special fonts for particular
- #: characters.
- # font_family monospace
- # bold_font auto
- # italic_font auto
- # bold_italic_font auto
- #: You can specify different fonts for the bold/italic/bold-italic
- #: variants. To get a full list of supported fonts use the `kitty
- #: +list-fonts` command. By default they are derived automatically, by
- #: the OSes font system. When bold_font or bold_italic_font is set to
- #: auto on macOS, the priority of bold fonts is semi-bold, bold,
- #: heavy. Setting them manually is useful for font families that have
- #: many weight variants like Book, Medium, Thick, etc. For example::
- #: font_family Operator Mono Book
- #: bold_font Operator Mono Medium
- #: italic_font Operator Mono Book Italic
- #: bold_italic_font Operator Mono Medium Italic
- # font_size 11.0
- #: Font size (in pts)
- # force_ltr no
- #: kitty does not support BIDI (bidirectional text), however, for RTL
- #: scripts, words are automatically displayed in RTL. That is to say,
- #: in an RTL script, the words "HELLO WORLD" display in kitty as
- #: "WORLD HELLO", and if you try to select a substring of an RTL-
- #: shaped string, you will get the character that would be there had
- #: the the string been LTR. For example, assuming the Hebrew word
- #: ירושלים, selecting the character that on the screen appears to be ם
- #: actually writes into the selection buffer the character י. kitty's
- #: default behavior is useful in conjunction with a filter to reverse
- #: the word order, however, if you wish to manipulate RTL glyphs, it
- #: can be very challenging to work with, so this option is provided to
- #: turn it off. Furthermore, this option can be used with the command
- #: line program GNU FriBidi
- #: <https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi#executable> to get BIDI
- #: support, because it will force kitty to always treat the text as
- #: LTR, which FriBidi expects for terminals.
- # symbol_map
- #: E.g. symbol_map U+E0A0-U+E0A3,U+E0C0-U+E0C7 PowerlineSymbols
- #: Map the specified Unicode codepoints to a particular font. Useful
- #: if you need special rendering for some symbols, such as for
- #: Powerline. Avoids the need for patched fonts. Each Unicode code
- #: point is specified in the form `U+<code point in hexadecimal>`. You
- #: can specify multiple code points, separated by commas and ranges
- #: separated by hyphens. This option can be specified multiple times.
- #: The syntax is::
- #: symbol_map codepoints Font Family Name
- # narrow_symbols
- #: E.g. narrow_symbols U+E0A0-U+E0A3,U+E0C0-U+E0C7 1
- #: Usually, for Private Use Unicode characters and some symbol/dingbat
- #: characters, if the character is followed by one or more spaces,
- #: kitty will use those extra cells to render the character larger, if
- #: the character in the font has a wide aspect ratio. Using this
- #: option you can force kitty to restrict the specified code points to
- #: render in the specified number of cells (defaulting to one cell).
- #: This option can be specified multiple times. The syntax is::
- #: narrow_symbols codepoints [optionally the number of cells]
- # disable_ligatures never
- #: Choose how you want to handle multi-character ligatures. The
- #: default is to always render them. You can tell kitty to not render
- #: them when the cursor is over them by using cursor to make editing
- #: easier, or have kitty never render them at all by using always, if
- #: you don't like them. The ligature strategy can be set per-window
- #: either using the kitty remote control facility or by defining
- #: shortcuts for it in kitty.conf, for example::
- #: map alt+1 disable_ligatures_in active always
- #: map alt+2 disable_ligatures_in all never
- #: map alt+3 disable_ligatures_in tab cursor
- #: Note that this refers to programming ligatures, typically
- #: implemented using the calt OpenType feature. For disabling general
- #: ligatures, use the font_features option.
- # font_features
- #: E.g. font_features none
- #: Choose exactly which OpenType features to enable or disable. This
- #: is useful as some fonts might have features worthwhile in a
- #: terminal. For example, Fira Code includes a discretionary feature,
- #: zero, which in that font changes the appearance of the zero (0), to
- #: make it more easily distinguishable from Ø. Fira Code also includes
- #: other discretionary features known as Stylistic Sets which have the
- #: tags ss01 through ss20.
- #: For the exact syntax to use for individual features, see the
- #: HarfBuzz documentation <https://harfbuzz.github.io/harfbuzz-hb-
- #: common.html#hb-feature-from-string>.
- #: Note that this code is indexed by PostScript name, and not the font
- #: family. This allows you to define very precise feature settings;
- #: e.g. you can disable a feature in the italic font but not in the
- #: regular font.
- #: On Linux, font features are first read from the FontConfig database
- #: and then this option is applied, so they can be configured in a
- #: single, central place.
- #: To get the PostScript name for a font, use `kitty +list-fonts
- #: --psnames`:
- #: .. code-block:: sh
- #: $ kitty +list-fonts --psnames | grep Fira
- #: Fira Code
- #: Fira Code Bold (FiraCode-Bold)
- #: Fira Code Light (FiraCode-Light)
- #: Fira Code Medium (FiraCode-Medium)
- #: Fira Code Regular (FiraCode-Regular)
- #: Fira Code Retina (FiraCode-Retina)
- #: The part in brackets is the PostScript name.
- #: Enable alternate zero and oldstyle numerals::
- #: font_features FiraCode-Retina +zero +onum
- #: Enable only alternate zero in the bold font::
- #: font_features FiraCode-Bold +zero
- #: Disable the normal ligatures, but keep the calt feature which (in
- #: this font) breaks up monotony::
- #: font_features TT2020StyleB-Regular -liga +calt
- #: In conjunction with force_ltr, you may want to disable Arabic
- #: shaping entirely, and only look at their isolated forms if they
- #: show up in a document. You can do this with e.g.::
- #: font_features UnifontMedium +isol -medi -fina -init
- # modify_font
- #: Modify font characteristics such as the position or thickness of
- #: the underline and strikethrough. The modifications can have the
- #: suffix px for pixels or % for percentage of original value. No
- #: suffix means use pts. For example::
- #: modify_font underline_position -2
- #: modify_font underline_thickness 150%
- #: modify_font strikethrough_position 2px
- #: Additionally, you can modify the size of the cell in which each
- #: font glyph is rendered and the baseline at which the glyph is
- #: placed in the cell. For example::
- #: modify_font cell_width 80%
- #: modify_font cell_height -2px
- #: modify_font baseline 3
- #: Note that modifying the baseline will automatically adjust the
- #: underline and strikethrough positions by the same amount.
- #: Increasing the baseline raises glyphs inside the cell and
- #: decreasing it lowers them. Decreasing the cell size might cause
- #: rendering artifacts, so use with care.
- # box_drawing_scale 0.001, 1, 1.5, 2
- #: The sizes of the lines used for the box drawing Unicode characters.
- #: These values are in pts. They will be scaled by the monitor DPI to
- #: arrive at a pixel value. There must be four values corresponding to
- #: thin, normal, thick, and very thick lines.
- # undercurl_style thin-sparse
- #: The style with which undercurls are rendered. This option takes the
- #: form (thin|thick)-(sparse|dense). Thin and thick control the
- #: thickness of the undercurl. Sparse and dense control how often the
- #: curl oscillates. With sparse the curl will peak once per character,
- #: with dense twice.
- # text_composition_strategy platform
- #: Control how kitty composites text glyphs onto the background color.
- #: The default value of platform tries for text rendering as close to
- #: "native" for the platform kitty is running on as possible.
- #: A value of legacy uses the old (pre kitty 0.28) strategy for how
- #: glyphs are composited. This will make dark text on light
- #: backgrounds look thicker and light text on dark backgrounds
- #: thinner. It might also make some text appear like the strokes are
- #: uneven.
- #: You can fine tune the actual contrast curve used for glyph
- #: composition by specifying up to two space-separated numbers for
- #: this setting.
- #: The first number is the gamma adjustment, which controls the
- #: thickness of dark text on light backgrounds. Increasing the value
- #: will make text appear thicker. The default value for this is 1.0 on
- #: Linux and 1.7 on macOS. Valid values are 0.01 and above. The result
- #: is scaled based on the luminance difference between the background
- #: and the foreground. Dark text on light backgrounds receives the
- #: full impact of the curve while light text on dark backgrounds is
- #: affected very little.
- #: The second number is an additional multiplicative contrast. It is
- #: percentage ranging from 0 to 100. The default value is 0 on Linux
- #: and 30 on macOS.
- #: If you wish to achieve similar looking thickness in light and dark
- #: themes, a good way to experiment is start by setting the value to
- #: 1.0 0 and use a dark theme. Then adjust the second parameter until
- #: it looks good. Then switch to a light theme and adjust the first
- #: parameter until the perceived thickness matches the dark theme.
- # text_fg_override_threshold 0
- #: The minimum accepted difference in luminance between the foreground
- #: and background color, below which kitty will override the
- #: foreground color. It is percentage ranging from 0 to 100. If the
- #: difference in luminance of the foreground and background is below
- #: this threshold, the foreground color will be set to white if the
- #: background is dark or black if the background is light. The default
- #: value is 0, which means no overriding is performed. Useful when
- #: working with applications that use colors that do not contrast well
- #: with your preferred color scheme.
- #: }}}
- #: Cursor customization {{{
- # cursor #cccccc
- #: Default cursor color. If set to the special value none the cursor
- #: will be rendered with a "reverse video" effect. It's color will be
- #: the color of the text in the cell it is over and the text will be
- #: rendered with the background color of the cell. Note that if the
- #: program running in the terminal sets a cursor color, this takes
- #: precedence. Also, the cursor colors are modified if the cell
- #: background and foreground colors have very low contrast.
- # cursor_text_color #111111
- #: The color of text under the cursor. If you want it rendered with
- #: the background color of the cell underneath instead, use the
- #: special keyword: background. Note that if cursor is set to none
- #: then this option is ignored.
- # cursor_shape block
- #: The cursor shape can be one of block, beam, underline. Note that
- #: when reloading the config this will be changed only if the cursor
- #: shape has not been set by the program running in the terminal. This
- #: sets the default cursor shape, applications running in the terminal
- #: can override it. In particular, shell integration
- #: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/> in kitty sets
- #: the cursor shape to beam at shell prompts. You can avoid this by
- #: setting shell_integration to no-cursor.
- # cursor_beam_thickness 1.5
- #: The thickness of the beam cursor (in pts).
- # cursor_underline_thickness 2.0
- #: The thickness of the underline cursor (in pts).
- # cursor_blink_interval -1
- #: The interval to blink the cursor (in seconds). Set to zero to
- #: disable blinking. Negative values mean use system default. Note
- #: that the minimum interval will be limited to repaint_delay.
- # cursor_stop_blinking_after 15.0
- #: Stop blinking cursor after the specified number of seconds of
- #: keyboard inactivity. Set to zero to never stop blinking.
- #: }}}
- #: Scrollback {{{
- # scrollback_lines 2000
- #: Number of lines of history to keep in memory for scrolling back.
- #: Memory is allocated on demand. Negative numbers are (effectively)
- #: infinite scrollback. Note that using very large scrollback is not
- #: recommended as it can slow down performance of the terminal and
- #: also use large amounts of RAM. Instead, consider using
- #: scrollback_pager_history_size. Note that on config reload if this
- #: is changed it will only affect newly created windows, not existing
- #: ones.
- # scrollback_pager less --chop-long-lines --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS +INPUT_LINE_NUMBER
- #: Program with which to view scrollback in a new window. The
- #: scrollback buffer is passed as STDIN to this program. If you change
- #: it, make sure the program you use can handle ANSI escape sequences
- #: for colors and text formatting. INPUT_LINE_NUMBER in the command
- #: line above will be replaced by an integer representing which line
- #: should be at the top of the screen. Similarly CURSOR_LINE and
- #: CURSOR_COLUMN will be replaced by the current cursor position or
- #: set to 0 if there is no cursor, for example, when showing the last
- #: command output.
- # scrollback_pager_history_size 0
- #: Separate scrollback history size (in MB), used only for browsing
- #: the scrollback buffer with pager. This separate buffer is not
- #: available for interactive scrolling but will be piped to the pager
- #: program when viewing scrollback buffer in a separate window. The
- #: current implementation stores the data in UTF-8, so approximately
- #: 10000 lines per megabyte at 100 chars per line, for pure ASCII,
- #: unformatted text. A value of zero or less disables this feature.
- #: The maximum allowed size is 4GB. Note that on config reload if this
- #: is changed it will only affect newly created windows, not existing
- #: ones.
- # scrollback_fill_enlarged_window no
- #: Fill new space with lines from the scrollback buffer after
- #: enlarging a window.
- # wheel_scroll_multiplier 5.0
- #: Multiplier for the number of lines scrolled by the mouse wheel.
- #: Note that this is only used for low precision scrolling devices,
- #: not for high precision scrolling devices on platforms such as macOS
- #: and Wayland. Use negative numbers to change scroll direction. See
- #: also wheel_scroll_min_lines.
- # wheel_scroll_min_lines 1
- #: The minimum number of lines scrolled by the mouse wheel. The scroll
- #: multiplier wheel_scroll_multiplier only takes effect after it
- #: reaches this number. Note that this is only used for low precision
- #: scrolling devices like wheel mice that scroll by very small amounts
- #: when using the wheel. With a negative number, the minimum number of
- #: lines will always be added.
- # touch_scroll_multiplier 1.0
- #: Multiplier for the number of lines scrolled by a touchpad. Note
- #: that this is only used for high precision scrolling devices on
- #: platforms such as macOS and Wayland. Use negative numbers to change
- #: scroll direction.
- #: }}}
- #: Mouse {{{
- # mouse_hide_wait 3.0
- #: Hide mouse cursor after the specified number of seconds of the
- #: mouse not being used. Set to zero to disable mouse cursor hiding.
- #: Set to a negative value to hide the mouse cursor immediately when
- #: typing text. Disabled by default on macOS as getting it to work
- #: robustly with the ever-changing sea of bugs that is Cocoa is too
- #: much effort.
- # url_color #0087bd
- # url_style curly
- #: The color and style for highlighting URLs on mouse-over. url_style
- #: can be one of: none, straight, double, curly, dotted, dashed.
- # open_url_with default
- #: The program to open clicked URLs. The special value default with
- #: first look for any URL handlers defined via the open_actions
- #: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/open_actions/> facility and if non
- #: are found, it will use the Operating System's default URL handler
- #: (open on macOS and xdg-open on Linux).
- # url_prefixes file ftp ftps gemini git gopher http https irc ircs kitty mailto news sftp ssh
- #: The set of URL prefixes to look for when detecting a URL under the
- #: mouse cursor.
- # detect_urls yes
- #: Detect URLs under the mouse. Detected URLs are highlighted with an
- #: underline and the mouse cursor becomes a hand over them. Even if
- #: this option is disabled, URLs are still clickable.
- # url_excluded_characters
- #: Additional characters to be disallowed from URLs, when detecting
- #: URLs under the mouse cursor. By default, all characters that are
- #: legal in URLs are allowed. Additionally, newlines are allowed (but
- #: stripped). This is to accommodate programs such as mutt that add
- #: hard line breaks even for continued lines. \n can be added to this
- #: option to disable this behavior. Special characters can be
- #: specified using backslash escapes, to specify a backslash use a
- #: double backslash.
- # show_hyperlink_targets no
- #: When the mouse hovers over a terminal hyperlink, show the actual
- #: URL that will be activated when the hyperlink is clicked.
- # copy_on_select no
- #: Copy to clipboard or a private buffer on select. With this set to
- #: clipboard, selecting text with the mouse will cause the text to be
- #: copied to clipboard. Useful on platforms such as macOS that do not
- #: have the concept of primary selection. You can instead specify a
- #: name such as a1 to copy to a private kitty buffer. Map a shortcut
- #: with the paste_from_buffer action to paste from this private
- #: buffer. For example::
- #: copy_on_select a1
- #: map shift+cmd+v paste_from_buffer a1
- #: Note that copying to the clipboard is a security risk, as all
- #: programs, including websites open in your browser can read the
- #: contents of the system clipboard.
- # paste_actions quote-urls-at-prompt
- #: A comma separated list of actions to take when pasting text into
- #: the terminal. The supported paste actions are:
- #: quote-urls-at-prompt:
- #: If the text being pasted is a URL and the cursor is at a shell prompt,
- #: automatically quote the URL (needs shell_integration).
- #: confirm:
- #: Confirm the paste if bracketed paste mode is not active or there is
- #: a large amount of text being pasted.
- #: filter:
- #: Run the filter_paste() function from the file paste-actions.py in
- #: the kitty config directory on the pasted text. The text returned by the
- #: function will be actually pasted.
- # strip_trailing_spaces never
- #: Remove spaces at the end of lines when copying to clipboard. A
- #: value of smart will do it when using normal selections, but not
- #: rectangle selections. A value of always will always do it.
- # select_by_word_characters @-./_~?&=%+#
- #: Characters considered part of a word when double clicking. In
- #: addition to these characters any character that is marked as an
- #: alphanumeric character in the Unicode database will be matched.
- # select_by_word_characters_forward
- #: Characters considered part of a word when extending the selection
- #: forward on double clicking. In addition to these characters any
- #: character that is marked as an alphanumeric character in the
- #: Unicode database will be matched.
- #: If empty (default) select_by_word_characters will be used for both
- #: directions.
- # click_interval -1.0
- #: The interval between successive clicks to detect double/triple
- #: clicks (in seconds). Negative numbers will use the system default
- #: instead, if available, or fallback to 0.5.
- # focus_follows_mouse no
- #: Set the active window to the window under the mouse when moving the
- #: mouse around.
- # pointer_shape_when_grabbed arrow
- #: The shape of the mouse pointer when the program running in the
- #: terminal grabs the mouse. Valid values are: arrow, beam and hand.
- # default_pointer_shape beam
- #: The default shape of the mouse pointer. Valid values are: arrow,
- #: beam and hand.
- # pointer_shape_when_dragging beam
- #: The default shape of the mouse pointer when dragging across text.
- #: Valid values are: arrow, beam and hand.
- #: Mouse actions {{{
- #: Mouse buttons can be mapped to perform arbitrary actions. The
- #: syntax is:
- #: .. code-block:: none
- #: mouse_map button-name event-type modes action
- #: Where button-name is one of left, middle, right, b1 ... b8 with
- #: added keyboard modifiers. For example: ctrl+shift+left refers to
- #: holding the Ctrl+Shift keys while clicking with the left mouse
- #: button. The value b1 ... b8 can be used to refer to up to eight
- #: buttons on a mouse.
- #: event-type is one of press, release, doublepress, triplepress,
- #: click, doubleclick. modes indicates whether the action is performed
- #: when the mouse is grabbed by the program running in the terminal,
- #: or not. The values are grabbed or ungrabbed or a comma separated
- #: combination of them. grabbed refers to when the program running in
- #: the terminal has requested mouse events. Note that the click and
- #: double click events have a delay of click_interval to disambiguate
- #: from double and triple presses.
- #: You can run kitty with the kitty --debug-input command line option
- #: to see mouse events. See the builtin actions below to get a sense
- #: of what is possible.
- #: If you want to unmap an action, map it to no_op. For example, to
- #: disable opening of URLs with a plain click::
- #: mouse_map left click ungrabbed no_op
- #: See all the mappable actions including mouse actions here
- #: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/actions/>.
- #: .. note::
- #: Once a selection is started, releasing the button that started it will
- #: automatically end it and no release event will be dispatched.
- # clear_all_mouse_actions no
- #: Remove all mouse action definitions up to this point. Useful, for
- #: instance, to remove the default mouse actions.
- #: Click the link under the mouse or move the cursor
- # mouse_map left click ungrabbed mouse_handle_click selection link prompt
- #:: First check for a selection and if one exists do nothing. Then
- #:: check for a link under the mouse cursor and if one exists, click
- #:: it. Finally check if the click happened at the current shell
- #:: prompt and if so, move the cursor to the click location. Note
- #:: that this requires shell integration
- #:: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/> to work.
- #: Click the link under the mouse or move the cursor even when grabbed
- # mouse_map shift+left click grabbed,ungrabbed mouse_handle_click selection link prompt
- #:: Same as above, except that the action is performed even when the
- #:: mouse is grabbed by the program running in the terminal.
- #: Click the link under the mouse cursor
- # mouse_map ctrl+shift+left release grabbed,ungrabbed mouse_handle_click link
- #:: Variant with Ctrl+Shift is present because the simple click based
- #:: version has an unavoidable delay of click_interval, to
- #:: disambiguate clicks from double clicks.
- #: Discard press event for link click
- # mouse_map ctrl+shift+left press grabbed discard_event
- #:: Prevent this press event from being sent to the program that has
- #:: grabbed the mouse, as the corresponding release event is used to
- #:: open a URL.
- #: Paste from the primary selection
- # mouse_map middle release ungrabbed paste_from_selection
- #: Start selecting text
- # mouse_map left press ungrabbed mouse_selection normal
- #: Start selecting text in a rectangle
- # mouse_map ctrl+alt+left press ungrabbed mouse_selection rectangle
- #: Select a word
- # mouse_map left doublepress ungrabbed mouse_selection word
- #: Select a line
- # mouse_map left triplepress ungrabbed mouse_selection line
- #: Select line from point
- # mouse_map ctrl+alt+left triplepress ungrabbed mouse_selection line_from_point
- #:: Select from the clicked point to the end of the line.
- #: Extend the current selection
- # mouse_map right press ungrabbed mouse_selection extend
- #:: If you want only the end of the selection to be moved instead of
- #:: the nearest boundary, use move-end instead of extend.
- #: Paste from the primary selection even when grabbed
- # mouse_map shift+middle release ungrabbed,grabbed paste_selection
- # mouse_map shift+middle press grabbed discard_event
- #: Start selecting text even when grabbed
- # mouse_map shift+left press ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection normal
- #: Start selecting text in a rectangle even when grabbed
- # mouse_map ctrl+shift+alt+left press ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection rectangle
- #: Select a word even when grabbed
- # mouse_map shift+left doublepress ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection word
- #: Select a line even when grabbed
- # mouse_map shift+left triplepress ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection line
- #: Select line from point even when grabbed
- # mouse_map ctrl+shift+alt+left triplepress ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection line_from_point
- #:: Select from the clicked point to the end of the line even when
- #:: grabbed.
- #: Extend the current selection even when grabbed
- # mouse_map shift+right press ungrabbed,grabbed mouse_selection extend
- #: Show clicked command output in pager
- # mouse_map ctrl+shift+right press ungrabbed mouse_show_command_output
- #:: Requires shell integration
- #:: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/> to work.
- #: }}}
- #: }}}
- #: Performance tuning {{{
- # repaint_delay 10
- #: Delay between screen updates (in milliseconds). Decreasing it,
- #: increases frames-per-second (FPS) at the cost of more CPU usage.
- #: The default value yields ~100 FPS which is more than sufficient for
- #: most uses. Note that to actually achieve 100 FPS, you have to
- #: either set sync_to_monitor to no or use a monitor with a high
- #: refresh rate. Also, to minimize latency when there is pending input
- #: to be processed, this option is ignored.
- # input_delay 3
- #: Delay before input from the program running in the terminal is
- #: processed (in milliseconds). Note that decreasing it will increase
- #: responsiveness, but also increase CPU usage and might cause flicker
- #: in full screen programs that redraw the entire screen on each loop,
- #: because kitty is so fast that partial screen updates will be drawn.
- # sync_to_monitor yes
- #: Sync screen updates to the refresh rate of the monitor. This
- #: prevents screen tearing
- #: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing> when scrolling.
- #: However, it limits the rendering speed to the refresh rate of your
- #: monitor. With a very high speed mouse/high keyboard repeat rate,
- #: you may notice some slight input latency. If so, set this to no.
- #: }}}
- #: Terminal bell {{{
- # enable_audio_bell yes
- #: The audio bell. Useful to disable it in environments that require
- #: silence.
- # visual_bell_duration 0.0
- #: The visual bell duration (in seconds). Flash the screen when a bell
- #: occurs for the specified number of seconds. Set to zero to disable.
- # visual_bell_color none
- #: The color used by visual bell. Set to none will fall back to
- #: selection background color. If you feel that the visual bell is too
- #: bright, you can set it to a darker color.
- # window_alert_on_bell yes
- #: Request window attention on bell. Makes the dock icon bounce on
- #: macOS or the taskbar flash on linux.
- # bell_on_tab "🔔 "
- #: Some text or a Unicode symbol to show on the tab if a window in the
- #: tab that does not have focus has a bell. If you want to use leading
- #: or trailing spaces, surround the text with quotes. See
- #: tab_title_template for how this is rendered.
- #: For backwards compatibility, values of yes, y and true are
- #: converted to the default bell symbol and no, n, false and none are
- #: converted to the empty string.
- # command_on_bell none
- #: Program to run when a bell occurs. The environment variable
- #: KITTY_CHILD_CMDLINE can be used to get the program running in the
- #: window in which the bell occurred.
- # bell_path none
- #: Path to a sound file to play as the bell sound. If set to none, the
- #: system default bell sound is used. Must be in a format supported by
- #: the operating systems sound API, such as WAV or OGA on Linux
- #: (libcanberra) or AIFF, MP3 or WAV on macOS (NSSound)
- # linux_bell_theme __custom
- #: The XDG Sound Theme kitty will use to play the bell sound. Defaults
- #: to the custom theme name used by GNOME and Budgie, falling back to
- #: the default freedesktop theme if it does not exist. This option may
- #: be removed if Linux ever provides desktop-agnostic support for
- #: setting system sound themes.
- #: }}}
- #: Window layout {{{
- # remember_window_size yes
- # initial_window_width 640
- # initial_window_height 400
- #: If enabled, the OS Window size will be remembered so that new
- #: instances of kitty will have the same size as the previous
- #: instance. If disabled, the OS Window will initially have size
- #: configured by initial_window_width/height, in pixels. You can use a
- #: suffix of "c" on the width/height values to have them interpreted
- #: as number of cells instead of pixels.
- # enabled_layouts *
- #: The enabled window layouts. A comma separated list of layout names.
- #: The special value all means all layouts. The first listed layout
- #: will be used as the startup layout. Default configuration is all
- #: layouts in alphabetical order. For a list of available layouts, see
- #: the layouts <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/overview/#layouts>.
- # window_resize_step_cells 2
- # window_resize_step_lines 2
- #: The step size (in units of cell width/cell height) to use when
- #: resizing kitty windows in a layout with the shortcut
- #: start_resizing_window. The cells value is used for horizontal
- #: resizing, and the lines value is used for vertical resizing.
- # window_border_width 0.5pt
- #: The width of window borders. Can be either in pixels (px) or pts
- #: (pt). Values in pts will be rounded to the nearest number of pixels
- #: based on screen resolution. If not specified, the unit is assumed
- #: to be pts. Note that borders are displayed only when more than one
- #: window is visible. They are meant to separate multiple windows.
- # draw_minimal_borders yes
- #: Draw only the minimum borders needed. This means that only the
- #: borders that separate the window from a neighbor are drawn. Note
- #: that setting a non-zero window_margin_width overrides this and
- #: causes all borders to be drawn.
- # window_margin_width 0
- #: The window margin (in pts) (blank area outside the border). A
- #: single value sets all four sides. Two values set the vertical and
- #: horizontal sides. Three values set top, horizontal and bottom. Four
- #: values set top, right, bottom and left.
- # single_window_margin_width -1
- #: The window margin to use when only a single window is visible (in
- #: pts). Negative values will cause the value of window_margin_width
- #: to be used instead. A single value sets all four sides. Two values
- #: set the vertical and horizontal sides. Three values set top,
- #: horizontal and bottom. Four values set top, right, bottom and left.
- # window_padding_width 0
- #: The window padding (in pts) (blank area between the text and the
- #: window border). A single value sets all four sides. Two values set
- #: the vertical and horizontal sides. Three values set top, horizontal
- #: and bottom. Four values set top, right, bottom and left.
- # placement_strategy center
- #: When the window size is not an exact multiple of the cell size, the
- #: cell area of the terminal window will have some extra padding on
- #: the sides. You can control how that padding is distributed with
- #: this option. Using a value of center means the cell area will be
- #: placed centrally. A value of top-left means the padding will be
- #: only at the bottom and right edges.
- # active_border_color #00ff00
- #: The color for the border of the active window. Set this to none to
- #: not draw borders around the active window.
- # inactive_border_color #cccccc
- #: The color for the border of inactive windows.
- # bell_border_color #ff5a00
- #: The color for the border of inactive windows in which a bell has
- #: occurred.
- # inactive_text_alpha 1.0
- #: Fade the text in inactive windows by the specified amount (a number
- #: between zero and one, with zero being fully faded).
- # hide_window_decorations no
- #: Hide the window decorations (title-bar and window borders) with
- #: yes. On macOS, titlebar-only and titlebar-and-corners can be used
- #: to only hide the titlebar and the rounded corners. Whether this
- #: works and exactly what effect it has depends on the window
- #: manager/operating system. Note that the effects of changing this
- #: option when reloading config are undefined. When using titlebar-
- #: only, it is useful to also set window_margin_width and
- #: placement_strategy to prevent the rounded corners from clipping
- #: text. Or use titlebar-and-corners.
- # window_logo_path none
- #: Path to a logo image. Must be in PNG format. Relative paths are
- #: interpreted relative to the kitty config directory. The logo is
- #: displayed in a corner of every kitty window. The position is
- #: controlled by window_logo_position. Individual windows can be
- #: configured to have different logos either using the launch action
- #: or the remote control <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-
- #: control/> facility.
- # window_logo_position bottom-right
- #: Where to position the window logo in the window. The value can be
- #: one of: top-left, top, top-right, left, center, right, bottom-left,
- #: bottom, bottom-right.
- # window_logo_alpha 0.5
- #: The amount the logo should be faded into the background. With zero
- #: being fully faded and one being fully opaque.
- # resize_debounce_time 0.1 0.5
- #: The time to wait before redrawing the screen during a live resize
- #: of the OS window, when no new resize events have been received,
- #: i.e. when resizing is either paused or finished. On platforms such
- #: as macOS, where the operating system sends events corresponding to
- #: the start and end of a live resize, the second number is used for
- #: redraw-after-pause since kitty can distinguish between a pause and
- #: end of resizing. On such systems the first number is ignored and
- #: redraw is immediate after end of resize. On other systems the
- #: first number is used so that kitty is "ready" quickly after the end
- #: of resizing, while not also continuously redrawing, to save energy.
- # resize_in_steps no
- #: Resize the OS window in steps as large as the cells, instead of
- #: with the usual pixel accuracy. Combined with initial_window_width
- #: and initial_window_height in number of cells, this option can be
- #: used to keep the margins as small as possible when resizing the OS
- #: window. Note that this does not currently work on Wayland.
- # visual_window_select_characters 1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
- #: The list of characters for visual window selection. For example,
- #: for selecting a window to focus on with focus_visible_window. The
- #: value should be a series of unique numbers or alphabets, case
- #: insensitive, from the set [0-9A-Z]. Specify your preference as a
- #: string of characters.
- # confirm_os_window_close -1
- #: Ask for confirmation when closing an OS window or a tab with at
- #: least this number of kitty windows in it by window manager (e.g.
- #: clicking the window close button or pressing the operating system
- #: shortcut to close windows) or by the close_tab action. A value of
- #: zero disables confirmation. This confirmation also applies to
- #: requests to quit the entire application (all OS windows, via the
- #: quit action). Negative values are converted to positive ones,
- #: however, with shell_integration enabled, using negative values
- #: means windows sitting at a shell prompt are not counted, only
- #: windows where some command is currently running. Note that if you
- #: want confirmation when closing individual windows, you can map the
- #: close_window_with_confirmation action.
- #: }}}
- #: Tab bar {{{
- # tab_bar_edge bottom
- #: The edge to show the tab bar on, top or bottom.
- # tab_bar_margin_width 0.0
- #: The margin to the left and right of the tab bar (in pts).
- # tab_bar_margin_height 0.0 0.0
- #: The margin above and below the tab bar (in pts). The first number
- #: is the margin between the edge of the OS Window and the tab bar.
- #: The second number is the margin between the tab bar and the
- #: contents of the current tab.
- # tab_bar_style fade
- tab_bar_style slant
- #: The tab bar style, can be one of:
- #: fade
- #: Each tab's edges fade into the background color. (See also tab_fade)
- #: slant
- #: Tabs look like the tabs in a physical file.
- #: separator
- #: Tabs are separated by a configurable separator. (See also
- #: tab_separator)
- #: powerline
- #: Tabs are shown as a continuous line with "fancy" separators.
- #: (See also tab_powerline_style)
- #: custom
- #: A user-supplied Python function called draw_tab is loaded from the file
- #: tab_bar.py in the kitty config directory. For examples of how to
- #: write such a function, see the functions named draw_tab_with_* in
- #: kitty's source code: kitty/tab_bar.py. See also
- #: this discussion <https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/4447>
- #: for examples from kitty users.
- #: hidden
- #: The tab bar is hidden. If you use this, you might want to create
- #: a mapping for the select_tab action which presents you with a list of
- #: tabs and allows for easy switching to a tab.
- # tab_bar_align left
- #: The horizontal alignment of the tab bar, can be one of: left,
- #: center, right.
- # tab_bar_min_tabs 2
- #: The minimum number of tabs that must exist before the tab bar is
- #: shown.
- # tab_switch_strategy previous
- #: The algorithm to use when switching to a tab when the current tab
- #: is closed. The default of previous will switch to the last used
- #: tab. A value of left will switch to the tab to the left of the
- #: closed tab. A value of right will switch to the tab to the right of
- #: the closed tab. A value of last will switch to the right-most tab.
- # tab_fade 0.25 0.5 0.75 1
- #: Control how each tab fades into the background when using fade for
- #: the tab_bar_style. Each number is an alpha (between zero and one)
- #: that controls how much the corresponding cell fades into the
- #: background, with zero being no fade and one being full fade. You
- #: can change the number of cells used by adding/removing entries to
- #: this list.
- # tab_separator " ┇"
- #: The separator between tabs in the tab bar when using separator as
- #: the tab_bar_style.
- # tab_powerline_style angled
- #: The powerline separator style between tabs in the tab bar when
- #: using powerline as the tab_bar_style, can be one of: angled,
- #: slanted, round.
- # tab_activity_symbol none
- tab_activity_symbol "process "
- #: Some text or a Unicode symbol to show on the tab if a window in the
- #: tab that does not have focus has some activity. If you want to use
- #: leading or trailing spaces, surround the text with quotes. See
- #: tab_title_template for how this is rendered.
- # tab_title_max_length 0
- #: The maximum number of cells that can be used to render the text in
- #: a tab. A value of zero means that no limit is applied.
- # tab_title_template "{fmt.fg.red}{bell_symbol}{activity_symbol}{fmt.fg.tab}{title}"
- #: A template to render the tab title. The default just renders the
- #: title with optional symbols for bell and activity. If you wish to
- #: include the tab-index as well, use something like: {index}:{title}.
- #: Useful if you have shortcuts mapped for goto_tab N. If you prefer
- #: to see the index as a superscript, use {sup.index}. All data
- #: available is:
- #: title
- #: The current tab title.
- #: index
- #: The tab index usable with goto_tab N goto_tab shortcuts.
- #: layout_name
- #: The current layout name.
- #: num_windows
- #: The number of windows in the tab.
- #: num_window_groups
- #: The number of window groups (a window group is a window and all of its overlay windows) in the tab.
- #: tab.active_wd
- #: The working directory of the currently active window in the tab
- #: (expensive, requires syscall). Use active_oldest_wd to get
- #: the directory of the oldest foreground process rather than the newest.
- #: tab.active_exe
- #: The name of the executable running in the foreground of the currently
- #: active window in the tab (expensive, requires syscall). Use
- #: active_oldest_exe for the oldest foreground process.
- #: max_title_length
- #: The maximum title length available.
- #: Note that formatting is done by Python's string formatting
- #: machinery, so you can use, for instance, {layout_name[:2].upper()}
- #: to show only the first two letters of the layout name, upper-cased.
- #: If you want to style the text, you can use styling directives, for
- #: example:
- #: `{fmt.fg.red}red{fmt.fg.tab}normal{fmt.bg._00FF00}greenbg{fmt.bg.tab}`.
- #: Similarly, for bold and italic:
- #: `{fmt.bold}bold{fmt.nobold}normal{fmt.italic}italic{fmt.noitalic}`.
- #: Note that for backward compatibility, if {bell_symbol} or
- #: {activity_symbol} are not present in the template, they are
- #: prepended to it.
- # active_tab_title_template none
- #: Template to use for active tabs. If not specified falls back to
- #: tab_title_template.
- # active_tab_foreground #000
- # active_tab_background #eee
- # active_tab_font_style bold-italic
- # inactive_tab_foreground #444
- # inactive_tab_background #999
- # inactive_tab_font_style normal
- #: Tab bar colors and styles.
- # tab_bar_background none
- #: Background color for the tab bar. Defaults to using the terminal
- #: background color.
- # tab_bar_margin_color none
- #: Color for the tab bar margin area. Defaults to using the terminal
- #: background color for margins above and below the tab bar. For side
- #: margins the default color is chosen to match the background color
- #: of the neighboring tab.
- #: }}}
- #: Color scheme {{{
- # foreground #dddddd
- # background #000000
- #: The foreground and background colors.
- # background_opacity 1.0
- background_opacity 0.8
- #: The opacity of the background. A number between zero and one, where
- #: one is opaque and zero is fully transparent. This will only work if
- #: supported by the OS (for instance, when using a compositor under
- #: X11). Note that it only sets the background color's opacity in
- #: cells that have the same background color as the default terminal
- #: background, so that things like the status bar in vim, powerline
- #: prompts, etc. still look good. But it means that if you use a color
- #: theme with a background color in your editor, it will not be
- #: rendered as transparent. Instead you should change the default
- #: background color in your kitty config and not use a background
- #: color in the editor color scheme. Or use the escape codes to set
- #: the terminals default colors in a shell script to launch your
- #: editor. Be aware that using a value less than 1.0 is a (possibly
- #: significant) performance hit. When using a low value for this
- #: setting, it is desirable that you set the background color to a
- #: color the matches the general color of the desktop background, for
- #: best text rendering. If you want to dynamically change
- #: transparency of windows, set dynamic_background_opacity to yes
- #: (this is off by default as it has a performance cost). Changing
- #: this option when reloading the config will only work if
- #: dynamic_background_opacity was enabled in the original config.
- # background_blur 0
- #: Set to a positive value to enable background blur (blurring of the
- #: visuals behind a transparent window) on platforms that support it.
- #: Only takes effect when background_opacity is less than one. On
- #: macOS, this will also control the blur radius (amount of blurring).
- #: Setting it to too high a value will cause severe performance issues
- #: and/or rendering artifacts. Usually, values up to 64 work well.
- #: Note that this might cause performance issues, depending on how the
- #: platform implements it, so use with care. Currently supported on
- #: macOS and KDE/X11.
- # background_image none
- #: Path to a background image. Must be in PNG format.
- # background_image_layout tiled
- #: Whether to tile, scale or clamp the background image. The value can
- #: be one of tiled, mirror-tiled, scaled, clamped, centered or
- #: cscaled. The scaled and cscaled values scale the image to the
- #: window size, with cscaled preserving the image aspect ratio.
- # background_image_linear no
- #: When background image is scaled, whether linear interpolation
- #: should be used.
- # dynamic_background_opacity no
- #: Allow changing of the background_opacity dynamically, using either
- #: keyboard shortcuts (increase_background_opacity and
- #: decrease_background_opacity) or the remote control facility.
- #: Changing this option by reloading the config is not supported.
- # background_tint 0.0
- #: How much to tint the background image by the background color. This
- #: option makes it easier to read the text. Tinting is done using the
- #: current background color for each window. This option applies only
- #: if background_opacity is set and transparent windows are supported
- #: or background_image is set.
- # background_tint_gaps 1.0
- #: How much to tint the background image at the window gaps by the
- #: background color, after applying background_tint. Since this is
- #: multiplicative with background_tint, it can be used to lighten the
- #: tint over the window gaps for a *separated* look.
- # dim_opacity 0.4
- #: How much to dim text that has the DIM/FAINT attribute set. One
- #: means no dimming and zero means fully dimmed (i.e. invisible).
- # selection_foreground #000000
- # selection_background #fffacd
- #: The foreground and background colors for text selected with the
- #: mouse. Setting both of these to none will cause a "reverse video"
- #: effect for selections, where the selection will be the cell text
- #: color and the text will become the cell background color. Setting
- #: only selection_foreground to none will cause the foreground color
- #: to be used unchanged. Note that these colors can be overridden by
- #: the program running in the terminal.
- #: The color table {{{
- #: The 256 terminal colors. There are 8 basic colors, each color has a
- #: dull and bright version, for the first 16 colors. You can set the
- #: remaining 240 colors as color16 to color255.
- # color0 #000000
- # color8 #767676
- #: black
- # color1 #cc0403
- # color9 #f2201f
- #: red
- # color2 #19cb00
- # color10 #23fd00
- #: green
- # color3 #cecb00
- # color11 #fffd00
- #: yellow
- # color4 #0d73cc
- # color12 #1a8fff
- #: blue
- # color5 #cb1ed1
- # color13 #fd28ff
- #: magenta
- # color6 #0dcdcd
- # color14 #14ffff
- #: cyan
- # color7 #dddddd
- # color15 #ffffff
- #: white
- # mark1_foreground black
- #: Color for marks of type 1
- # mark1_background #98d3cb
- #: Color for marks of type 1 (light steel blue)
- # mark2_foreground black
- #: Color for marks of type 2
- # mark2_background #f2dcd3
- #: Color for marks of type 1 (beige)
- # mark3_foreground black
- #: Color for marks of type 3
- # mark3_background #f274bc
- #: Color for marks of type 3 (violet)
- #: }}}
- #: }}}
- #: Advanced {{{
- # shell .
- #: The shell program to execute. The default value of . means to use
- #: whatever shell is set as the default shell for the current user.
- #: Note that on macOS if you change this, you might need to add
- #: --login and --interactive to ensure that the shell starts in
- #: interactive mode and reads its startup rc files.
- # editor .
- #: The terminal based text editor (such as vim or nano) to use when
- #: editing the kitty config file or similar tasks.
- #: The default value of . means to use the environment variables
- #: VISUAL and EDITOR in that order. If these variables aren't set,
- #: kitty will run your shell ($SHELL -l -i -c env) to see if your
- #: shell startup rc files set VISUAL or EDITOR. If that doesn't work,
- #: kitty will cycle through various known editors (vim, emacs, etc.)
- #: and take the first one that exists on your system.
- # close_on_child_death no
- #: Close the window when the child process (shell) exits. With the
- #: default value no, the terminal will remain open when the child
- #: exits as long as there are still processes outputting to the
- #: terminal (for example disowned or backgrounded processes). When
- #: enabled with yes, the window will close as soon as the child
- #: process exits. Note that setting it to yes means that any
- #: background processes still using the terminal can fail silently
- #: because their stdout/stderr/stdin no longer work.
- # remote_control_password
- #: Allow other programs to control kitty using passwords. This option
- #: can be specified multiple times to add multiple passwords. If no
- #: passwords are present kitty will ask the user for permission if a
- #: program tries to use remote control with a password. A password can
- #: also *optionally* be associated with a set of allowed remote
- #: control actions. For example::
- #: remote_control_password "my passphrase" get-colors set-colors focus-window focus-tab
- #: Only the specified actions will be allowed when using this
- #: password. Glob patterns can be used too, for example::
- #: remote_control_password "my passphrase" set-tab-* resize-*
- #: To get a list of available actions, run::
- #: kitty @ --help
- #: A set of actions to be allowed when no password is sent can be
- #: specified by using an empty password. For example::
- #: remote_control_password "" *-colors
- #: Finally, the path to a python module can be specified that provides
- #: a function is_cmd_allowed that is used to check every remote
- #: control command. For example::
- #: remote_control_password "my passphrase" my_rc_command_checker.py
- #: Relative paths are resolved from the kitty configuration directory.
- #: See rc_custom_auth <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-
- #: control/#rc-custom-auth> for details.
- # allow_remote_control no
- #: Allow other programs to control kitty. If you turn this on, other
- #: programs can control all aspects of kitty, including sending text
- #: to kitty windows, opening new windows, closing windows, reading the
- #: content of windows, etc. Note that this even works over SSH
- #: connections. The default setting of no prevents any form of remote
- #: control. The meaning of the various values are:
- #: password
- #: Remote control requests received over both the TTY device and the socket
- #: are confirmed based on passwords, see remote_control_password.
- #: socket-only
- #: Remote control requests received over a socket are accepted
- #: unconditionally. Requests received over the TTY are denied.
- #: See listen_on.
- #: socket
- #: Remote control requests received over a socket are accepted
- #: unconditionally. Requests received over the TTY are confirmed based on
- #: password.
- #: no
- #: Remote control is completely disabled.
- #: yes
- #: Remote control requests are always accepted.
- # listen_on none
- #: Listen to the specified UNIX socket for remote control connections.
- #: Note that this will apply to all kitty instances. It can be
- #: overridden by the kitty --listen-on command line option, which also
- #: supports listening on a TCP socket. This option accepts only UNIX
- #: sockets, such as unix:${TEMP}/mykitty or unix:@mykitty (on Linux).
- #: Environment variables are expanded and relative paths are resolved
- #: with respect to the temporary directory. If {kitty_pid} is present,
- #: then it is replaced by the PID of the kitty process, otherwise the
- #: PID of the kitty process is appended to the value, with a hyphen.
- #: See the help for kitty --listen-on for more details. Note that this
- #: will be ignored unless allow_remote_control is set to either: yes,
- #: socket or socket-only. Changing this option by reloading the config
- #: is not supported.
- # env
- #: Specify the environment variables to be set in all child processes.
- #: Using the name with an equal sign (e.g. env VAR=) will set it to
- #: the empty string. Specifying only the name (e.g. env VAR) will
- #: remove the variable from the child process' environment. Note that
- #: environment variables are expanded recursively, for example::
- #: env VAR1=a
- #: env VAR2=${HOME}/${VAR1}/b
- #: The value of VAR2 will be <path to home directory>/a/b.
- # watcher
- #: Path to python file which will be loaded for watchers
- #: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch/#watchers>. Can be
- #: specified more than once to load multiple watchers. The watchers
- #: will be added to every kitty window. Relative paths are resolved
- #: relative to the kitty config directory. Note that reloading the
- #: config will only affect windows created after the reload.
- # exe_search_path
- #: Control where kitty finds the programs to run. The default search
- #: order is: First search the system wide PATH, then ~/.local/bin and
- #: ~/bin. If still not found, the PATH defined in the login shell
- #: after sourcing all its startup files is tried. Finally, if present,
- #: the PATH specified by the env option is tried.
- #: This option allows you to prepend, append, or remove paths from
- #: this search order. It can be specified multiple times for multiple
- #: paths. A simple path will be prepended to the search order. A path
- #: that starts with the + sign will be append to the search order,
- #: after ~/bin above. A path that starts with the - sign will be
- #: removed from the entire search order. For example::
- #: exe_search_path /some/prepended/path
- #: exe_search_path +/some/appended/path
- #: exe_search_path -/some/excluded/path
- # update_check_interval 24
- #: The interval to periodically check if an update to kitty is
- #: available (in hours). If an update is found, a system notification
- #: is displayed informing you of the available update. The default is
- #: to check every 24 hours, set to zero to disable. Update checking is
- #: only done by the official binary builds. Distro packages or source
- #: builds do not do update checking. Changing this option by reloading
- #: the config is not supported.
- # startup_session none
- #: Path to a session file to use for all kitty instances. Can be
- #: overridden by using the kitty --session =none command line option
- #: for individual instances. See sessions
- #: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/overview/#sessions> in the kitty
- #: documentation for details. Note that relative paths are interpreted
- #: with respect to the kitty config directory. Environment variables
- #: in the path are expanded. Changing this option by reloading the
- #: config is not supported.
- # clipboard_control write-clipboard write-primary read-clipboard-ask read-primary-ask
- #: Allow programs running in kitty to read and write from the
- #: clipboard. You can control exactly which actions are allowed. The
- #: possible actions are: write-clipboard, read-clipboard, write-
- #: primary, read-primary, read-clipboard-ask, read-primary-ask. The
- #: default is to allow writing to the clipboard and primary selection
- #: and to ask for permission when a program tries to read from the
- #: clipboard. Note that disabling the read confirmation is a security
- #: risk as it means that any program, even the ones running on a
- #: remote server via SSH can read your clipboard. See also
- #: clipboard_max_size.
- # clipboard_max_size 512
- #: The maximum size (in MB) of data from programs running in kitty
- #: that will be stored for writing to the system clipboard. A value of
- #: zero means no size limit is applied. See also clipboard_control.
- # file_transfer_confirmation_bypass
- #: The password that can be supplied to the file transfer kitten
- #: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/transfer/> to skip the
- #: transfer confirmation prompt. This should only be used when
- #: initiating transfers from trusted computers, over trusted networks
- #: or encrypted transports, as it allows any programs running on the
- #: remote machine to read/write to the local filesystem, without
- #: permission.
- # allow_hyperlinks yes
- #: Process hyperlink escape sequences (OSC 8). If disabled OSC 8
- #: escape sequences are ignored. Otherwise they become clickable
- #: links, that you can click with the mouse or by using the hints
- #: kitten <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints/>. The
- #: special value of ask means that kitty will ask before opening the
- #: link when clicked.
- # shell_integration enabled
- #: Enable shell integration on supported shells. This enables features
- #: such as jumping to previous prompts, browsing the output of the
- #: previous command in a pager, etc. on supported shells. Set to
- #: disabled to turn off shell integration, completely. It is also
- #: possible to disable individual features, set to a space separated
- #: list of these values: no-rc, no-cursor, no-title, no-cwd, no-
- #: prompt-mark, no-complete. See Shell integration
- #: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/> for details.
- # allow_cloning ask
- #: Control whether programs running in the terminal can request new
- #: windows to be created. The canonical example is clone-in-kitty
- #: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/#clone-shell>.
- #: By default, kitty will ask for permission for each clone request.
- #: Allowing cloning unconditionally gives programs running in the
- #: terminal (including over SSH) permission to execute arbitrary code,
- #: as the user who is running the terminal, on the computer that the
- #: terminal is running on.
- # clone_source_strategies venv,conda,env_var,path
- #: Control what shell code is sourced when running clone-in-kitty in
- #: the newly cloned window. The supported strategies are:
- #: venv
- #: Source the file $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/activate. This is used by the
- #: Python stdlib venv module and allows cloning venvs automatically.
- #: conda
- #: Run conda activate $CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV. This supports the virtual
- #: environments created by conda.
- #: env_var
- #: Execute the contents of the environment variable
- #: KITTY_CLONE_SOURCE_CODE with eval.
- #: path
- #: Source the file pointed to by the environment variable
- #: KITTY_CLONE_SOURCE_PATH.
- #: This option must be a comma separated list of the above values.
- #: This only source the first valid one in the above order.
- # term xterm-kitty
- #: The value of the TERM environment variable to set. Changing this
- #: can break many terminal programs, only change it if you know what
- #: you are doing, not because you read some advice on "Stack Overflow"
- #: to change it. The TERM variable is used by various programs to get
- #: information about the capabilities and behavior of the terminal. If
- #: you change it, depending on what programs you run, and how
- #: different the terminal you are changing it to is, various things
- #: from key-presses, to colors, to various advanced features may not
- #: work. Changing this option by reloading the config will only affect
- #: newly created windows.
- #: }}}
- #: OS specific tweaks {{{
- # wayland_titlebar_color system
- #: The color of the kitty window's titlebar on Wayland systems with
- #: client side window decorations such as GNOME. A value of system
- #: means to use the default system color, a value of background means
- #: to use the background color of the currently active window and
- #: finally you can use an arbitrary color, such as #12af59 or red.
- # macos_titlebar_color system
- #: The color of the kitty window's titlebar on macOS. A value of
- #: system means to use the default system color, light or dark can
- #: also be used to set it explicitly. A value of background means to
- #: use the background color of the currently active window and finally
- #: you can use an arbitrary color, such as #12af59 or red. WARNING:
- #: This option works by using a hack when arbitrary color (or
- #: background) is configured, as there is no proper Cocoa API for it.
- #: It sets the background color of the entire window and makes the
- #: titlebar transparent. As such it is incompatible with
- #: background_opacity. If you want to use both, you are probably
- #: better off just hiding the titlebar with hide_window_decorations.
- # macos_option_as_alt no
- #: Use the Option key as an Alt key on macOS. With this set to no,
- #: kitty will use the macOS native Option+Key to enter Unicode
- #: character behavior. This will break any Alt+Key keyboard shortcuts
- #: in your terminal programs, but you can use the macOS Unicode input
- #: technique. You can use the values: left, right or both to use only
- #: the left, right or both Option keys as Alt, instead. Note that
- #: kitty itself always treats Option the same as Alt. This means you
- #: cannot use this option to configure different kitty shortcuts for
- #: Option+Key vs. Alt+Key. Also, any kitty shortcuts using
- #: Option/Alt+Key will take priority, so that any such key presses
- #: will not be passed to terminal programs running inside kitty.
- #: Changing this option by reloading the config is not supported.
- # macos_hide_from_tasks no
- #: Hide the kitty window from running tasks on macOS (⌘+Tab and the
- #: Dock). Changing this option by reloading the config is not
- #: supported.
- # macos_quit_when_last_window_closed no
- #: Have kitty quit when all the top-level windows are closed on macOS.
- #: By default, kitty will stay running, even with no open windows, as
- #: is the expected behavior on macOS.
- # macos_window_resizable yes
- #: Disable this if you want kitty top-level OS windows to not be
- #: resizable on macOS.
- # macos_thicken_font 0
- #: Draw an extra border around the font with the given width, to
- #: increase legibility at small font sizes on macOS. For example, a
- #: value of 0.75 will result in rendering that looks similar to sub-
- #: pixel antialiasing at common font sizes. Note that in modern kitty,
- #: this option is obsolete (although still supported). Consider using
- #: text_composition_strategy instead.
- # macos_traditional_fullscreen no
- #: Use the macOS traditional full-screen transition, that is faster,
- #: but less pretty.
- # macos_show_window_title_in all
- #: Control where the window title is displayed on macOS. A value of
- #: window will show the title of the currently active window at the
- #: top of the macOS window. A value of menubar will show the title of
- #: the currently active window in the macOS global menu bar, making
- #: use of otherwise wasted space. A value of all will show the title
- #: in both places, and none hides the title. See
- #: macos_menubar_title_max_length for how to control the length of the
- #: title in the menu bar.
- # macos_menubar_title_max_length 0
- #: The maximum number of characters from the window title to show in
- #: the macOS global menu bar. Values less than one means that there is
- #: no maximum limit.
- # macos_custom_beam_cursor no
- #: Use a custom mouse cursor for macOS that is easier to see on both
- #: light and dark backgrounds. Nowadays, the default macOS cursor
- #: already comes with a white border. WARNING: this might make your
- #: mouse cursor invisible on dual GPU machines. Changing this option
- #: by reloading the config is not supported.
- # macos_colorspace srgb
- #: The colorspace in which to interpret terminal colors. The default
- #: of srgb will cause colors to match those seen in web browsers. The
- #: value of default will use whatever the native colorspace of the
- #: display is. The value of displayp3 will use Apple's special
- #: snowflake display P3 color space, which will result in over
- #: saturated (brighter) colors with some color shift. Reloading
- #: configuration will change this value only for newly created OS
- #: windows.
- # linux_display_server auto
- #: Choose between Wayland and X11 backends. By default, an appropriate
- #: backend based on the system state is chosen automatically. Set it
- #: to x11 or wayland to force the choice. Changing this option by
- #: reloading the config is not supported.
- #: }}}
- #: Keyboard shortcuts {{{
- #: Keys are identified simply by their lowercase Unicode characters.
- #: For example: a for the A key, [ for the left square bracket key,
- #: etc. For functional keys, such as Enter or Escape, the names are
- #: present at Functional key definitions
- #: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/#functional>.
- #: For modifier keys, the names are ctrl (control, ⌃), shift (⇧), alt
- #: (opt, option, ⌥), super (cmd, command, ⌘). See also: GLFW mods
- #: <https://www.glfw.org/docs/latest/group__mods.html>
- #: On Linux you can also use XKB key names to bind keys that are not
- #: supported by GLFW. See XKB keys
- #: <https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/blob/master/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-
- #: keysyms.h> for a list of key names. The name to use is the part
- #: after the XKB_KEY_ prefix. Note that you can only use an XKB key
- #: name for keys that are not known as GLFW keys.
- #: Finally, you can use raw system key codes to map keys, again only
- #: for keys that are not known as GLFW keys. To see the system key
- #: code for a key, start kitty with the kitty --debug-input option,
- #: kitty will output some debug text for every key event. In that text
- #: look for native_code, the value of that becomes the key name in the
- #: shortcut. For example:
- #: .. code-block:: none
- #: on_key_input: glfw key: 0x61 native_code: 0x61 action: PRESS mods: none text: 'a'
- #: Here, the key name for the A key is 0x61 and you can use it with::
- #: map ctrl+0x61 something
- #: to map Ctrl+A to something.
- #: You can use the special action no_op to unmap a keyboard shortcut
- #: that is assigned in the default configuration::
- #: map kitty_mod+space no_op
- #: If you would like kitty to completely ignore a key event, not even
- #: sending it to the program running in the terminal, map it to
- #: discard_event::
- #: map kitty_mod+f1 discard_event
- #: You can combine multiple actions to be triggered by a single
- #: shortcut with combine action, using the syntax below::
- #: map key combine <separator> action1 <separator> action2 <separator> action3 ...
- #: For example::
- #: map kitty_mod+e combine : new_window : next_layout
- #: This will create a new window and switch to the next available
- #: layout.
- #: You can use multi-key shortcuts with the syntax shown below::
- #: map key1>key2>key3 action
- #: For example::
- #: map ctrl+f>2 set_font_size 20
- #: The full list of actions that can be mapped to key presses is
- #: available here <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/actions/>.
- # kitty_mod ctrl+shift
- #: Special modifier key alias for default shortcuts. You can change
- #: the value of this option to alter all default shortcuts that use
- #: kitty_mod.
- # clear_all_shortcuts no
- #: Remove all shortcut definitions up to this point. Useful, for
- #: instance, to remove the default shortcuts.
- # action_alias
- #: E.g. action_alias launch_tab launch --type=tab --cwd=current
- #: Define action aliases to avoid repeating the same options in
- #: multiple mappings. Aliases can be defined for any action and will
- #: be expanded recursively. For example, the above alias allows you to
- #: create mappings to launch a new tab in the current working
- #: directory without duplication::
- #: map f1 launch_tab vim
- #: map f2 launch_tab emacs
- #: Similarly, to alias kitten invocation::
- #: action_alias hints kitten hints --hints-offset=0
- # kitten_alias
- #: E.g. kitten_alias hints hints --hints-offset=0
- #: Like action_alias above, but specifically for kittens. Generally,
- #: prefer to use action_alias. This option is a legacy version,
- #: present for backwards compatibility. It causes all invocations of
- #: the aliased kitten to be substituted. So the example above will
- #: cause all invocations of the hints kitten to have the --hints-
- #: offset=0 option applied.
- #: Clipboard {{{
- #: Copy to clipboard
- # map kitty_mod+c copy_to_clipboard
- # map cmd+c copy_to_clipboard
- #:: There is also a copy_or_interrupt action that can be optionally
- #:: mapped to Ctrl+C. It will copy only if there is a selection and
- #:: send an interrupt otherwise. Similarly,
- #:: copy_and_clear_or_interrupt will copy and clear the selection or
- #:: send an interrupt if there is no selection.
- #: Paste from clipboard
- # map kitty_mod+v paste_from_clipboard
- # map cmd+v paste_from_clipboard
- #: Paste from selection
- # map kitty_mod+s paste_from_selection
- # map shift+insert paste_from_selection
- #: Pass selection to program
- # map kitty_mod+o pass_selection_to_program
- #:: You can also pass the contents of the current selection to any
- #:: program with pass_selection_to_program. By default, the system's
- #:: open program is used, but you can specify your own, the selection
- #:: will be passed as a command line argument to the program. For
- #:: example::
- #:: map kitty_mod+o pass_selection_to_program firefox
- #:: You can pass the current selection to a terminal program running
- #:: in a new kitty window, by using the @selection placeholder::
- #:: map kitty_mod+y new_window less @selection
- #: }}}
- #: Scrolling {{{
- #: Scroll line up
- # map kitty_mod+up scroll_line_up
- # map kitty_mod+k scroll_line_up
- # map opt+cmd+page_up scroll_line_up
- # map cmd+up scroll_line_up
- #: Scroll line down
- # map kitty_mod+down scroll_line_down
- # map kitty_mod+j scroll_line_down
- # map opt+cmd+page_down scroll_line_down
- # map cmd+down scroll_line_down
- #: Scroll page up
- # map kitty_mod+page_up scroll_page_up
- # map cmd+page_up scroll_page_up
- #: Scroll page down
- # map kitty_mod+page_down scroll_page_down
- # map cmd+page_down scroll_page_down
- #: Scroll to top
- # map kitty_mod+home scroll_home
- # map cmd+home scroll_home
- #: Scroll to bottom
- # map kitty_mod+end scroll_end
- # map cmd+end scroll_end
- #: Scroll to previous shell prompt
- # map kitty_mod+z scroll_to_prompt -1
- #:: Use a parameter of 0 for scroll_to_prompt to scroll to the last
- #:: jumped to or the last clicked position. Requires shell
- #:: integration <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/>
- #:: to work.
- #: Scroll to next shell prompt
- # map kitty_mod+x scroll_to_prompt 1
- #: Browse scrollback buffer in pager
- # map kitty_mod+h show_scrollback
- #:: You can pipe the contents of the current screen and history
- #:: buffer as STDIN to an arbitrary program using launch --stdin-
- #:: source. For example, the following opens the scrollback buffer in
- #:: less in an overlay window::
- #:: map f1 launch --stdin-source=@screen_scrollback --stdin-add-formatting --type=overlay less +G -R
- #:: For more details on piping screen and buffer contents to external
- #:: programs, see launch <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch/>.
- #: Browse output of the last shell command in pager
- # map kitty_mod+g show_last_command_output
- #:: You can also define additional shortcuts to get the command
- #:: output. For example, to get the first command output on screen::
- #:: map f1 show_first_command_output_on_screen
- #:: To get the command output that was last accessed by a keyboard
- #:: action or mouse action::
- #:: map f1 show_last_visited_command_output
- #:: You can pipe the output of the last command run in the shell
- #:: using the launch action. For example, the following opens the
- #:: output in less in an overlay window::
- #:: map f1 launch --stdin-source=@last_cmd_output --stdin-add-formatting --type=overlay less +G -R
- #:: To get the output of the first command on the screen, use
- #:: @first_cmd_output_on_screen. To get the output of the last jumped
- #:: to command, use @last_visited_cmd_output.
- #:: Requires shell integration
- #:: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/shell-integration/> to work.
- #: }}}
- #: Window management {{{
- #: New window
- # map kitty_mod+enter new_window
- # map cmd+enter new_window
- #:: You can open a new kitty window running an arbitrary program, for
- #:: example::
- #:: map kitty_mod+y launch mutt
- #:: You can open a new window with the current working directory set
- #:: to the working directory of the current window using::
- #:: map ctrl+alt+enter launch --cwd=current
- #:: You can open a new window that is allowed to control kitty via
- #:: the kitty remote control facility with launch --allow-remote-
- #:: control. Any programs running in that window will be allowed to
- #:: control kitty. For example::
- #:: map ctrl+enter launch --allow-remote-control some_program
- #:: You can open a new window next to the currently active window or
- #:: as the first window, with::
- #:: map ctrl+n launch --location=neighbor
- #:: map ctrl+f launch --location=first
- #:: For more details, see launch
- #:: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch/>.
- #: New OS window
- # map kitty_mod+n new_os_window
- # map cmd+n new_os_window
- #:: Works like new_window above, except that it opens a top-level OS
- #:: window. In particular you can use new_os_window_with_cwd to open
- #:: a window with the current working directory.
- #: Close window
- # map kitty_mod+w close_window
- # map shift+cmd+d close_window
- #: Next window
- # map kitty_mod+] next_window
- #: Previous window
- # map kitty_mod+[ previous_window
- #: Move window forward
- # map kitty_mod+f move_window_forward
- #: Move window backward
- # map kitty_mod+b move_window_backward
- #: Move window to top
- # map kitty_mod+` move_window_to_top
- #: Start resizing window
- # map kitty_mod+r start_resizing_window
- # map cmd+r start_resizing_window
- #: First window
- # map kitty_mod+1 first_window
- # map cmd+1 first_window
- #: Second window
- # map kitty_mod+2 second_window
- # map cmd+2 second_window
- #: Third window
- # map kitty_mod+3 third_window
- # map cmd+3 third_window
- #: Fourth window
- # map kitty_mod+4 fourth_window
- # map cmd+4 fourth_window
- #: Fifth window
- # map kitty_mod+5 fifth_window
- # map cmd+5 fifth_window
- #: Sixth window
- # map kitty_mod+6 sixth_window
- # map cmd+6 sixth_window
- #: Seventh window
- # map kitty_mod+7 seventh_window
- # map cmd+7 seventh_window
- #: Eighth window
- # map kitty_mod+8 eighth_window
- # map cmd+8 eighth_window
- #: Ninth window
- # map kitty_mod+9 ninth_window
- # map cmd+9 ninth_window
- #: Tenth window
- # map kitty_mod+0 tenth_window
- #: Visually select and focus window
- # map kitty_mod+f7 focus_visible_window
- #:: Display overlay numbers and alphabets on the window, and switch
- #:: the focus to the window when you press the key. When there are
- #:: only two windows, the focus will be switched directly without
- #:: displaying the overlay. You can change the overlay characters and
- #:: their order with option visual_window_select_characters.
- #: Visually swap window with another
- # map kitty_mod+f8 swap_with_window
- #:: Works like focus_visible_window above, but swaps the window.
- #: }}}
- #: Tab management {{{
- #: Next tab
- # map kitty_mod+right next_tab
- # map shift+cmd+] next_tab
- # map ctrl+tab next_tab
- map ctrl+shift+l next_tab
- #: Previous tab
- # map kitty_mod+left previous_tab
- # map shift+cmd+[ previous_tab
- # map ctrl+shift+tab previous_tab
- map ctrl+shift+h previous_tab
- #: {{{ go to tab №
- map alt+1 goto_tab 1
- map alt+2 goto_tab 2
- map alt+3 goto_tab 3
- map alt+4 goto_tab 4
- map alt+5 goto_tab 5
- map alt+6 goto_tab 6
- map alt+7 goto_tab 7
- map alt+8 goto_tab 8
- map alt+9 goto_tab 9
- map alt+0 goto_tab 10
- #: }}}
- #: New tab
- # map kitty_mod+t new_tab
- # map cmd+t new_tab
- #: Close tab
- # map kitty_mod+q close_tab
- # map cmd+w close_tab
- #: Close OS window
- # map shift+cmd+w close_os_window
- #: Move tab forward
- # map kitty_mod+. move_tab_forward
- #: Move tab backward
- # map kitty_mod+, move_tab_backward
- #: Set tab title
- # map kitty_mod+alt+t set_tab_title
- # map shift+cmd+i set_tab_title
- #: You can also create shortcuts to go to specific tabs, with 1 being
- #: the first tab, 2 the second tab and -1 being the previously active
- #: tab, and any number larger than the last tab being the last tab::
- #: map ctrl+alt+1 goto_tab 1
- #: map ctrl+alt+2 goto_tab 2
- #: Just as with new_window above, you can also pass the name of
- #: arbitrary commands to run when using new_tab and new_tab_with_cwd.
- #: Finally, if you want the new tab to open next to the current tab
- #: rather than at the end of the tabs list, use::
- #: map ctrl+t new_tab !neighbor [optional cmd to run]
- #: }}}
- #: Layout management {{{
- #: Next layout
- # map kitty_mod+l next_layout
- #: You can also create shortcuts to switch to specific layouts::
- #: map ctrl+alt+t goto_layout tall
- #: map ctrl+alt+s goto_layout stack
- #: Similarly, to switch back to the previous layout::
- #: map ctrl+alt+p last_used_layout
- #: There is also a toggle_layout action that switches to the named
- #: layout or back to the previous layout if in the named layout.
- #: Useful to temporarily "zoom" the active window by switching to the
- #: stack layout::
- #: map ctrl+alt+z toggle_layout stack
- #: }}}
- #: Font sizes {{{
- #: You can change the font size for all top-level kitty OS windows at
- #: a time or only the current one.
- #: Increase font size
- # map kitty_mod+equal change_font_size all +2.0
- # map kitty_mod+plus change_font_size all +2.0
- # map kitty_mod+kp_add change_font_size all +2.0
- # map cmd+plus change_font_size all +2.0
- # map cmd+equal change_font_size all +2.0
- # map shift+cmd+equal change_font_size all +2.0
- #: Decrease font size
- # map kitty_mod+minus change_font_size all -2.0
- # map kitty_mod+kp_subtract change_font_size all -2.0
- # map cmd+minus change_font_size all -2.0
- # map shift+cmd+minus change_font_size all -2.0
- #: Reset font size
- # map kitty_mod+backspace change_font_size all 0
- # map cmd+0 change_font_size all 0
- #: To setup shortcuts for specific font sizes::
- #: map kitty_mod+f6 change_font_size all 10.0
- #: To setup shortcuts to change only the current OS window's font
- #: size::
- #: map kitty_mod+f6 change_font_size current 10.0
- #: }}}
- #: Select and act on visible text {{{
- #: Use the hints kitten to select text and either pass it to an
- #: external program or insert it into the terminal or copy it to the
- #: clipboard.
- #: Open URL
- # map kitty_mod+e open_url_with_hints
- #:: Open a currently visible URL using the keyboard. The program used
- #:: to open the URL is specified in open_url_with.
- #: Insert selected path
- # map kitty_mod+p>f kitten hints --type path --program -
- #:: Select a path/filename and insert it into the terminal. Useful,
- #:: for instance to run git commands on a filename output from a
- #:: previous git command.
- #: Open selected path
- # map kitty_mod+p>shift+f kitten hints --type path
- #:: Select a path/filename and open it with the default open program.
- #: Insert selected line
- # map kitty_mod+p>l kitten hints --type line --program -
- #:: Select a line of text and insert it into the terminal. Useful for
- #:: the output of things like: `ls -1`.
- #: Insert selected word
- # map kitty_mod+p>w kitten hints --type word --program -
- #:: Select words and insert into terminal.
- #: Insert selected hash
- # map kitty_mod+p>h kitten hints --type hash --program -
- #:: Select something that looks like a hash and insert it into the
- #:: terminal. Useful with git, which uses SHA1 hashes to identify
- #:: commits.
- #: Open the selected file at the selected line
- # map kitty_mod+p>n kitten hints --type linenum
- #:: Select something that looks like filename:linenum and open it in
- #:: vim at the specified line number.
- #: Open the selected hyperlink
- # map kitty_mod+p>y kitten hints --type hyperlink
- #:: Select a hyperlink (i.e. a URL that has been marked as such by
- #:: the terminal program, for example, by `ls --hyperlink=auto`).
- #: The hints kitten has many more modes of operation that you can map
- #: to different shortcuts. For a full description see hints kitten
- #: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints/>.
- #: }}}
- #: Miscellaneous {{{
- #: Show documentation
- # map kitty_mod+f1 show_kitty_doc overview
- #: Toggle fullscreen
- # map kitty_mod+f11 toggle_fullscreen
- # map ctrl+cmd+f toggle_fullscreen
- #: Toggle maximized
- # map kitty_mod+f10 toggle_maximized
- #: Toggle macOS secure keyboard entry
- # map opt+cmd+s toggle_macos_secure_keyboard_entry
- #: Unicode input
- # map kitty_mod+u kitten unicode_input
- # map ctrl+cmd+space kitten unicode_input
- #: Edit config file
- # map kitty_mod+f2 edit_config_file
- # map cmd+, edit_config_file
- #: Open the kitty command shell
- # map kitty_mod+escape kitty_shell window
- #:: Open the kitty shell in a new window / tab / overlay / os_window
- #:: to control kitty using commands.
- #: Increase background opacity
- # map kitty_mod+a>m set_background_opacity +0.1
- #: Decrease background opacity
- # map kitty_mod+a>l set_background_opacity -0.1
- #: Make background fully opaque
- # map kitty_mod+a>1 set_background_opacity 1
- #: Reset background opacity
- # map kitty_mod+a>d set_background_opacity default
- #: Reset the terminal
- # map kitty_mod+delete clear_terminal reset active
- # map opt+cmd+r clear_terminal reset active
- #:: You can create shortcuts to clear/reset the terminal. For
- #:: example::
- #:: # Reset the terminal
- #:: map f1 clear_terminal reset active
- #:: # Clear the terminal screen by erasing all contents
- #:: map f1 clear_terminal clear active
- #:: # Clear the terminal scrollback by erasing it
- #:: map f1 clear_terminal scrollback active
- #:: # Scroll the contents of the screen into the scrollback
- #:: map f1 clear_terminal scroll active
- #:: # Clear everything up to the line with the cursor
- #:: map f1 clear_terminal to_cursor active
- #:: If you want to operate on all kitty windows instead of just the
- #:: current one, use all instead of active.
- #:: Some useful functions that can be defined in the shell rc files
- #:: to perform various kinds of clearing of the current window:
- #:: .. code-block:: sh
- #:: clear-only-screen() {
- #:: printf "\e[H\e[2J"
- #:: }
- #:: clear-screen-and-scrollback() {
- #:: printf "\e[H\e[3J"
- #:: }
- #:: clear-screen-saving-contents-in-scrollback() {
- #:: printf "\e[H\e[22J"
- #:: }
- #:: For instance, using these escape codes, it is possible to remap
- #:: Ctrl+L to both scroll the current screen contents into the
- #:: scrollback buffer and clear the screen, instead of just clearing
- #:: the screen. For ZSH, in ~/.zshrc, add:
- #:: .. code-block:: zsh
- #:: ctrl_l() {
- #:: builtin print -rn -- $'\r\e[0J\e[H\e[22J' >"$TTY"
- #:: builtin zle .reset-prompt
- #:: builtin zle -R
- #:: }
- #:: zle -N ctrl_l
- #:: bindkey '^l' ctrl_l
- #: Clear up to cursor line
- # map cmd+k clear_terminal to_cursor active
- #: Reload kitty.conf
- # map kitty_mod+f5 load_config_file
- # map ctrl+cmd+, load_config_file
- #:: Reload kitty.conf, applying any changes since the last time it
- #:: was loaded. Note that a handful of options cannot be dynamically
- #:: changed and require a full restart of kitty. Particularly, when
- #:: changing shortcuts for actions located on the macOS global menu
- #:: bar, a full restart is needed. You can also map a keybinding to
- #:: load a different config file, for example::
- #:: map f5 load_config /path/to/alternative/kitty.conf
- #:: Note that all options from the original kitty.conf are discarded,
- #:: in other words the new configuration *replace* the old ones.
- #: Debug kitty configuration
- # map kitty_mod+f6 debug_config
- # map opt+cmd+, debug_config
- #:: Show details about exactly what configuration kitty is running
- #:: with and its host environment. Useful for debugging issues.
- #: Send arbitrary text on key presses
- #:: E.g. map ctrl+shift+alt+h send_text all Hello World
- #:: You can tell kitty to send arbitrary (UTF-8) encoded text to the
- #:: client program when pressing specified shortcut keys. For
- #:: example::
- #:: map ctrl+alt+a send_text all Special text
- #:: This will send "Special text" when you press the Ctrl+Alt+A key
- #:: combination. The text to be sent decodes ANSI C escapes
- #:: <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/ANSI_002dC-
- #:: Quoting.html> so you can use escapes like \e to send control
- #:: codes or \u21fb to send Unicode characters (or you can just input
- #:: the Unicode characters directly as UTF-8 text). You can use
- #:: `kitty +kitten show_key` to get the key escape codes you want to
- #:: emulate.
- #:: The first argument to send_text is the keyboard modes in which to
- #:: activate the shortcut. The possible values are normal,
- #:: application, kitty or a comma separated combination of them. The
- #:: modes normal and application refer to the DECCKM cursor key mode
- #:: for terminals, and kitty refers to the kitty extended keyboard
- #:: protocol. The special value all means all of them.
- #:: Some more examples::
- #:: # Output a word and move the cursor to the start of the line (like typing and pressing Home)
- #:: map ctrl+alt+a send_text normal Word\e[H
- #:: map ctrl+alt+a send_text application Word\eOH
- #:: # Run a command at a shell prompt (like typing the command and pressing Enter)
- #:: map ctrl+alt+a send_text normal,application some command with arguments\r
- #: Open kitty Website
- # map shift+cmd+/ open_url https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
- #: Hide macOS kitty application
- # map cmd+h hide_macos_app
- #: Hide macOS other applications
- # map opt+cmd+h hide_macos_other_apps
- #: Minimize macOS window
- # map cmd+m minimize_macos_window
- #: Quit kitty
- # map cmd+q quit
- #: }}}
- #: }}}
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