Software:kitty (terminal emulator)

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Short description: Terminal emulator
kitty
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kitty is a free and open-source GPU-accelerated[1][2] terminal emulator for Linux and macOS focused on performance and features. kitty is written in a mix of C and Python programming languages. It provides GPU support. kitty shares its name with another program — KiTTY — a fork of PuTTY for Microsoft Windows.[3]

Features

  • Display images: when ImageMagick installed, add to .bashrc alias icat="kitty +kitten icat" and use as "icat me.webp"[4][5]
  • Interactive Unicode characters input (ctrl+shift+u), by name, code, recently used[6]
  • Supports true color, text formatting features
  • Tiling of multiple windows and tabs
  • Single config file
  • Hyperlink clicks
  • Mouse support (for example in Vim)
  • Multiple copy/paste buffers like in Vim[7]

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