0.42.0 [2025-05-11]

• A new kitten: quick-access-terminal to Make a Quake like quick access terminal
• The panel kitten works on macOS and X11 as well as Wayland (#2590)
• Behavior change: Now kitty does full grapheme segmentation following the Unicode 16 spec when splitting text into cells (#8533)
• Behavior change: The automatic color switching functionality now also controls background image settings (#8603)
• panel kitten: Allow using kitty +kitten panel --single-instance to create multiple panels in one process (#8549)
• launch: Allow creating desktop panels such as those created by the panel kitten (#8549)
• Remote control: Allow modifying desktop panels and showing/hiding OS Windows using the kitten @ resize-os-window command (#8550)
• Remote control launch: Allow waiting for a program launched in a new window to exit and get the exit code via the kitty +launch --wait-for-child-to-exit command line flag (#8573)
• Allow starting kit

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28192443

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/panel/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27741183

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18481126

I've recently stopped using tmux in favour of relying fully kitty's built-in windows and tabs, and I'm a fan.

The real killer app for me was the "pass_keys" plugin that allows you to navigate vim and kitty splits all with the same keys. I think there are plugins that allow you to do the same between vim<>tmux<>kitty as well, so it's not like you would need to drop tmux to take advantage of it.

Anyway, so that's been a big shift in my daily workflow. I've been using tmux for well over a decade, and GNU screen before that (I was never able to train myself away from the C-a prefix.

The one thing I miss a lot is being able to quickly detach and re-attach to existing sessions. Especially when doing some work over an ssh connection. But then I can always just shove the terminal into scratch space, or another i3 workspace.

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Kitty v0.39.0 was released with 12 changes not including any major new feature on 2025/01/16

We have 3 new additions, 3 changes and 9 changes included in version v0.15.0 released on 2025/01/14

I found the following Ghostty config can be used to get i3wm border around Ghostty (using i3wm with XFCE)

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window-decoration = true
gtk-titlebar = false
gtk-adwaita = false

  

Related: With the release of 1.0.1 of Ghostty, there is an issue with border around Ghostty on Linux

Version 1.20.0 of Foot terminal is released with 3 additions, 4 changes and 2 fixes.

First patch version is released without changelog (I couldn't find).

There are 227 commits in 78 changed files since first major version released on 26th Dec, 2024.

Ghostty 1.0 is out.

If you told me two years ago that I would be releasing a terminal emulator, I wouldn't have believed you. I've always been a fan of the terminal, my entire career was built around shipping terminal-first software. But they're a solved problem, right? That's what I thought.

I started the project in 2022 merely as a way to play with Zig, do some graphics programming, and deepen my understanding of terminals. I never intended to release it. I didn't think there was innovation to be had. I thought I would learn a lot over a few months and move on.

But as I worked on it, I looked at other terminals differently. I saw tradeoffs that I didn't like. I saw features that I wanted. I saw performance that I could improve. I saw stagnation. There are many fantastic terminals out there and you should use them if they work for you. But I wanted something different and thought maybe others did too.

And so Ghostty was born. It's not perfect, it's not done, it's not for ever

with 13 changes (nothing major) kitty v0.38.0 was released on 2024-12-15.

read details changelog here

Rio terminal emulator released on 13th November, 2024 with various improvements and changes. See the release page for details changes.

So even though I was a bit confused by why Ghostty needs to exist at first, I'm now completely sold. And to be completely honest, you should be too.

read details in the post.

p.s. I am not the author.

released on 2024-10-30 with 7 changes/fixes listed. The major change is "the cursor tails"

Show an animated trail when the text cursor makes large jumps making it easy to follow cursor movements. Inspired by the similar feature in neovide, but works with terminal multiplexers and kitty windows as well. See the pull request for a demonstration video. This feature is optional and must be turned on by the cursor_trail option in kitty.conf.

I don't know if anyone could use these, but I thought I'd share two commands I use sometimes while trying out different terminals. In my .bash_aliases file I have:

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        alias whatterm="ps -o 'cmd=' -p $(ps -o 'ppid=' -p $$)"


  

example:

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$  whatterm
alacritty

  

and I have the following script saved in my local bin directory as testterm. I don't know how great of a test it is, but it shows the capabilities of different terminals and I like the pretty colors.

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#!/bin/sh

echo "# 24-bit (true-color)"
# based on: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
term_cols="$(tput cols || echo 80)"
cols=$(echo "2^((l($term_cols)/l(2))-1)" | bc -l 2> /dev/null)
rows=$(( cols / 2 ))
awk -v cols="$cols" -v rows="$rows" 'BEGIN{
    s="  ";
        m=cols+rows;
        for (row = 0; row<rows; row++) {
          for (col = 0; col<cols; col++) {
                    i = row+col;
                    r = 255-(i*255/m);
                    g = (i*510/m);
                    b = (i*255/m);
           
  

5 fixes, 5 changes and 5 new additions

17 fixes, 7 changes and 3 additions.

After nearly two years of development and private beta testing1, I’m excited to share that Ghostty 1.0 will be publicly released in December 2024 as an open-source project under the MIT license.

In this blog post, I want to restate the broader goals of the Ghostty project and outline the specific goals for the 1.0 release. I have ambitious plans for Ghostty, but I also want to set clear expectations for what to expect on day one versus what will come in the future.

In short, Ghostty 1.0 aims to be the best drop-in replacement for your current terminal emulator on macOS and Linux. Ghostty will be fast, feature-rich, and have a platform-native GUI while being the most standards-compliant terminal emulator available.