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2
3 #: Fonts {{{
4
5 #: kitty has very powerful font management. You can configure
6 #: individual font faces and even specify special fonts for particular
7 #: characters.
8
9 font_family monospace
10 bold_font auto
11 italic_font auto
12 bold_italic_font auto
13
14 #: You can specify different fonts for the bold/italic/bold-italic
15 #: variants. To get a full list of supported fonts use the `kitty
16 #: list-fonts` command. By default they are derived automatically, by
17 #: the OSes font system. Setting them manually is useful for font
18 #: families that have many weight variants like Book, Medium, Thick,
19 #: etc. For example::
20
21 #: font_family Operator Mono Book
22 #: bold_font Operator Mono Medium
23 #: italic_font Operator Mono Book Italic
24 #: bold_italic_font Operator Mono Medium Italic
25
26 font_size 11.0
27
28 #: Font size (in pts)
29
30 force_ltr no
31
32 #: kitty does not support BIDI (bidirectional text), however, for RTL
33 #: scripts, words are automatically displayed in RTL. That is to say,
34 #: in an RTL script, the words "HELLO WORLD" display in kitty as
35 #: "WORLD HELLO", and if you try to select a substring of an RTL-
36 #: shaped string, you will get the character that would be there had
37 #: the the string been LTR. For example, assuming the Hebrew word
38 #: ירושלים, selecting the character that on the screen appears to be ם
39 #: actually writes into the selection buffer the character י.
40
41 #: kitty's default behavior is useful in conjunction with a filter to
42 #: reverse the word order, however, if you wish to manipulate RTL
43 #: glyphs, it can be very challenging to work with, so this option is
44 #: provided to turn it off. Furthermore, this option can be used with
45 #: the command line program GNU FriBidi
46 #: <https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi#executable> to get BIDI
47 #: support, because it will force kitty to always treat the text as
48 #: LTR, which FriBidi expects for terminals.
49
50 adjust_line_height 0
51 adjust_column_width 0
52
53 #: Change the size of each character cell kitty renders. You can use
54 #: either numbers, which are interpreted as pixels or percentages
55 #: (number followed by %), which are interpreted as percentages of the
56 #: unmodified values. You can use negative pixels or percentages less
57 #: than 100% to reduce sizes (but this might cause rendering
58 #: artifacts).
59
60 # symbol_map U+E0A0-U+E0A3,U+E0C0-U+E0C7 PowerlineSymbols
61
62 #: Map the specified unicode codepoints to a particular font. Useful
63 #: if you need special rendering for some symbols, such as for
64 #: Powerline. Avoids the need for patched fonts. Each unicode code
65 #: point is specified in the form U+<code point in hexadecimal>. You
66 #: can specify multiple code points, separated by commas and ranges
67 #: separated by hyphens. symbol_map itself can be specified multiple
68 #: times. Syntax is::
69
70 #: symbol_map codepoints Font Family Name
71
72 disable_ligatures never
73
74 #: Choose how you want to handle multi-character ligatures. The
75 #: default is to always render them. You can tell kitty to not render
76 #: them when the cursor is over them by using cursor to make editing
77 #: easier, or have kitty never render them at all by using always, if
78 #: you don't like them. The ligature strategy can be set per-window
79 #: either using the kitty remote control facility or by defining
80 #: shortcuts for it in kitty.conf, for example::
81
82 #: map alt+1 disable_ligatures_in active always
83 #: map alt+2 disable_ligatures_in all never
84 #: map alt+3 disable_ligatures_in tab cursor
85
86 #: Note that this refers to programming ligatures, typically
87 #: implemented using the calt OpenType feature. For disabling general
88 #: ligatures, use the font_features setting.
89
90 font_features none
91
92 #: Choose exactly which OpenType features to enable or disable. This
93 #: is useful as some fonts might have features worthwhile in a
94 #: terminal. For example, Fira Code Retina includes a discretionary
95 #: feature, zero, which in that font changes the appearance of the
96 #: zero (0), to make it more easily distinguishable from Ø. Fira Code
97 #: Retina also includes other discretionary features known as
98 #: Stylistic Sets which have the tags ss01 through ss20.
99
100 #: Note that this code is indexed by PostScript name, and not the font
101 #: family. This allows you to define very precise feature settings;
102 #: e.g. you can disable a feature in the italic font but not in the
103 #: regular font.
104
105 #: On Linux, these are read from the FontConfig database first and
106 #: then this, setting is applied, so they can be configured in a
107 #: single, central place.
108
109 #: To get the PostScript name for a font, use kitty + list-fonts
110 #: --psnames:
111
112 #: .. code-block:: sh
113
114 #: $ kitty + list-fonts --psnames | grep Fira
115 #: Fira Code
116 #: Fira Code Bold (FiraCode-Bold)
117 #: Fira Code Light (FiraCode-Light)
118 #: Fira Code Medium (FiraCode-Medium)
119 #: Fira Code Regular (FiraCode-Regular)
120 #: Fira Code Retina (FiraCode-Retina)
121
122 #: The part in brackets is the PostScript name.
123
124 #: Enable alternate zero and oldstyle numerals::
125
126 #: font_features FiraCode-Retina +zero +onum
127
128 #: Enable only alternate zero::
129
130 #: font_features FiraCode-Retina +zero
131
132 #: Disable the normal ligatures, but keep the calt feature which (in
133 #: this font) breaks up monotony::
134
135 #: font_features TT2020StyleB-Regular -liga +calt
136
137 #: In conjunction with force_ltr, you may want to disable Arabic
138 #: shaping entirely, and only look at their isolated forms if they
139 #: show up in a document. You can do this with e.g.::
140
141 #: font_features UnifontMedium +isol -medi -fina -init
142
143 box_drawing_scale 0.001, 1, 1.5, 2
144
145 #: Change the sizes of the lines used for the box drawing unicode
146 #: characters These values are in pts. They will be scaled by the
147 #: monitor DPI to arrive at a pixel value. There must be four values
148 #: corresponding to thin, normal, thick, and very thick lines.
149
150 #: }}}
151
152 #: Cursor customization {{{
153
154 cursor #cccccc
155
156 #: Default cursor color
157
158 cursor_text_color #111111
159
160 #: Choose the color of text under the cursor. If you want it rendered
161 #: with the background color of the cell underneath instead, use the
162 #: special keyword: background
163
164 cursor_shape block
165
166 #: The cursor shape can be one of (block, beam, underline)
167
168 cursor_beam_thickness 1.5
169
170 #: Defines the thickness of the beam cursor (in pts)
171
172 cursor_underline_thickness 2.0
173
174 #: Defines the thickness of the underline cursor (in pts)
175
176 cursor_blink_interval -1
177
178 #: The interval (in seconds) at which to blink the cursor. Set to zero
179 #: to disable blinking. Negative values mean use system default. Note
180 #: that numbers smaller than repaint_delay will be limited to
181 #: repaint_delay.
182
183 cursor_stop_blinking_after 15.0
184
185 #: Stop blinking cursor after the specified number of seconds of
186 #: keyboard inactivity. Set to zero to never stop blinking.
187
188 #: }}}
189
190 #: Scrollback {{{
191
192 scrollback_lines 2000
193
194 #: Number of lines of history to keep in memory for scrolling back.
195 #: Memory is allocated on demand. Negative numbers are (effectively)
196 #: infinite scrollback. Note that using very large scrollback is not
197 #: recommended as it can slow down performance of the terminal and
198 #: also use large amounts of RAM. Instead, consider using
199 #: scrollback_pager_history_size.
200
201 scrollback_pager less --chop-long-lines --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS +INPUT_LINE_NUMBER
202
203 #: Program with which to view scrollback in a new window. The
204 #: scrollback buffer is passed as STDIN to this program. If you change
205 #: it, make sure the program you use can handle ANSI escape sequences
206 #: for colors and text formatting. INPUT_LINE_NUMBER in the command
207 #: line above will be replaced by an integer representing which line
208 #: should be at the top of the screen. Similarly CURSOR_LINE and
209 #: CURSOR_COLUMN will be replaced by the current cursor position.
210
211 scrollback_pager_history_size 0
212
213 #: Separate scrollback history size, used only for browsing the
214 #: scrollback buffer (in MB). This separate buffer is not available
215 #: for interactive scrolling but will be piped to the pager program
216 #: when viewing scrollback buffer in a separate window. The current
217 #: implementation stores the data in UTF-8, so approximatively 10000
218 #: lines per megabyte at 100 chars per line, for pure ASCII text,
219 #: unformatted text. A value of zero or less disables this feature.
220 #: The maximum allowed size is 4GB.
221
222 wheel_scroll_multiplier 5.0
223
224 #: Modify the amount scrolled by the mouse wheel. Note this is only
225 #: used for low precision scrolling devices, not for high precision
226 #: scrolling on platforms such as macOS and Wayland. Use negative
227 #: numbers to change scroll direction.
228
229 touch_scroll_multiplier 1.0
230
231 #: Modify the amount scrolled by a touchpad. Note this is only used
232 #: for high precision scrolling devices on platforms such as macOS and
233 #: Wayland. Use negative numbers to change scroll direction.
234
235 #: }}}
236
237 #: Mouse {{{
238
239 mouse_hide_wait 3.0
240
241 #: Hide mouse cursor after the specified number of seconds of the
242 #: mouse not being used. Set to zero to disable mouse cursor hiding.
243 #: Set to a negative value to hide the mouse cursor immediately when
244 #: typing text. Disabled by default on macOS as getting it to work
245 #: robustly with the ever-changing sea of bugs that is Cocoa is too
246 #: much effort.
247
248 url_color #0087bd
249 url_style curly
250
251 #: The color and style for highlighting URLs on mouse-over. url_style
252 #: can be one of: none, single, double, curly
253
254 open_url_modifiers kitty_mod
255
256 #: The modifier keys to press when clicking with the mouse on URLs to
257 #: open the URL
258
259 open_url_with default
260
261 #: The program with which to open URLs that are clicked on. The
262 #: special value default means to use the operating system's default
263 #: URL handler.
264
265 url_prefixes http https file ftp
266
267 #: The set of URL prefixes to look for when detecting a URL under the
268 #: mouse cursor.
269
270 detect_urls yes
271
272 #: Detect URLs under the mouse. Detected URLs are highlighted with an
273 #: underline and the mouse cursor becomes a hand over them. Even if
274 #: this option is disabled, URLs are still clickable.
275
276 copy_on_select no
277
278 #: Copy to clipboard or a private buffer on select. With this set to
279 #: clipboard, simply selecting text with the mouse will cause the text
280 #: to be copied to clipboard. Useful on platforms such as macOS that
281 #: do not have the concept of primary selections. You can instead
282 #: specify a name such as a1 to copy to a private kitty buffer
283 #: instead. Map a shortcut with the paste_from_buffer action to paste
284 #: from this private buffer. For example::
285
286 #: map cmd+shift+v paste_from_buffer a1
287
288 #: Note that copying to the clipboard is a security risk, as all
289 #: programs, including websites open in your browser can read the
290 #: contents of the system clipboard.
291
292 strip_trailing_spaces never
293
294 #: Remove spaces at the end of lines when copying to clipboard. A
295 #: value of smart will do it when using normal selections, but not
296 #: rectangle selections. always will always do it.
297
298 rectangle_select_modifiers ctrl+alt
299
300 #: The modifiers to use rectangular selection (i.e. to select text in
301 #: a rectangular block with the mouse)
302
303 terminal_select_modifiers shift
304
305 #: The modifiers to override mouse selection even when a terminal
306 #: application has grabbed the mouse
307
308 select_by_word_characters @-./_~?&=%+#
309
310 #: Characters considered part of a word when double clicking. In
311 #: addition to these characters any character that is marked as an
312 #: alphanumeric character in the unicode database will be matched.
313
314 click_interval -1.0
315
316 #: The interval between successive clicks to detect double/triple
317 #: clicks (in seconds). Negative numbers will use the system default
318 #: instead, if available, or fallback to 0.5.
319
320 focus_follows_mouse no
321
322 #: Set the active window to the window under the mouse when moving the
323 #: mouse around
324
325 pointer_shape_when_grabbed arrow
326
327 #: The shape of the mouse pointer when the program running in the
328 #: terminal grabs the mouse. Valid values are: arrow, beam and hand
329
330 default_pointer_shape beam
331
332 #: The default shape of the mouse pointer. Valid values are: arrow,
333 #: beam and hand
334
335 pointer_shape_when_dragging beam
336
337 #: The default shape of the mouse pointer when dragging across text.
338 #: Valid values are: arrow, beam and hand
339
340 #: }}}
341
342 #: Performance tuning {{{
343
344 repaint_delay 10
345
346 #: Delay (in milliseconds) between screen updates. Decreasing it,
347 #: increases frames-per-second (FPS) at the cost of more CPU usage.
348 #: The default value yields ~100 FPS which is more than sufficient for
349 #: most uses. Note that to actually achieve 100 FPS you have to either
350 #: set sync_to_monitor to no or use a monitor with a high refresh
351 #: rate. Also, to minimize latency when there is pending input to be
352 #: processed, repaint_delay is ignored.
353
354 input_delay 3
355
356 #: Delay (in milliseconds) before input from the program running in
357 #: the terminal is processed. Note that decreasing it will increase
358 #: responsiveness, but also increase CPU usage and might cause flicker
359 #: in full screen programs that redraw the entire screen on each loop,
360 #: because kitty is so fast that partial screen updates will be drawn.
361
362 sync_to_monitor yes
363
364 #: Sync screen updates to the refresh rate of the monitor. This
365 #: prevents tearing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing)
366 #: when scrolling. However, it limits the rendering speed to the
367 #: refresh rate of your monitor. With a very high speed mouse/high
368 #: keyboard repeat rate, you may notice some slight input latency. If
369 #: so, set this to no.
370
371 #: }}}
372
373 #: Terminal bell {{{
374
375 enable_audio_bell yes
376
377 #: Enable/disable the audio bell. Useful in environments that require
378 #: silence.
379
380 visual_bell_duration 0.0
381
382 #: Visual bell duration. Flash the screen when a bell occurs for the
383 #: specified number of seconds. Set to zero to disable.
384
385 window_alert_on_bell yes
386
387 #: Request window attention on bell. Makes the dock icon bounce on
388 #: macOS or the taskbar flash on linux.
389
390 bell_on_tab yes
391
392 #: Show a bell symbol on the tab if a bell occurs in one of the
393 #: windows in the tab and the window is not the currently focused
394 #: window
395
396 command_on_bell none
397
398 #: Program to run when a bell occurs.
399
400 #: }}}
401
402 #: Window layout {{{
403
404 remember_window_size yes
405 initial_window_width 640
406 initial_window_height 400
407
408 #: If enabled, the window size will be remembered so that new
409 #: instances of kitty will have the same size as the previous
410 #: instance. If disabled, the window will initially have size
411 #: configured by initial_window_width/height, in pixels. You can use a
412 #: suffix of "c" on the width/height values to have them interpreted
413 #: as number of cells instead of pixels.
414
415 enabled_layouts *
416
417 #: The enabled window layouts. A comma separated list of layout names.
418 #: The special value all means all layouts. The first listed layout
419 #: will be used as the startup layout. Default configuration is all
420 #: layouts in alphabetical order. For a list of available layouts, see
421 #: the https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/index.html#layouts.
422
423 window_resize_step_cells 2
424 window_resize_step_lines 2
425
426 #: The step size (in units of cell width/cell height) to use when
427 #: resizing windows. The cells value is used for horizontal resizing
428 #: and the lines value for vertical resizing.
429
430 window_border_width 0.5pt
431
432 #: The width of window borders. Can be either in pixels (px) or pts
433 #: (pt). Values in pts will be rounded to the nearest number of pixels
434 #: based on screen resolution. If not specified the unit is assumed to
435 #: be pts. Note that borders are displayed only when more than one
436 #: window is visible. They are meant to separate multiple windows.
437
438 draw_minimal_borders yes
439
440 #: Draw only the minimum borders needed. This means that only the
441 #: minimum needed borders for inactive windows are drawn. That is only
442 #: the borders that separate the inactive window from a neighbor. Note
443 #: that setting a non-zero window margin overrides this and causes all
444 #: borders to be drawn.
445
446 window_margin_width 0
447
448 #: The window margin (in pts) (blank area outside the border). A
449 #: single value sets all four sides. Two values set the vertical and
450 #: horizontal sides. Three values set top, horizontal and bottom. Four
451 #: values set top, right, bottom and left.
452
453 single_window_margin_width -1
454
455 #: The window margin (in pts) to use when only a single window is
456 #: visible. Negative values will cause the value of
457 #: window_margin_width to be used instead. A single value sets all
458 #: four sides. Two values set the vertical and horizontal sides. Three
459 #: values set top, horizontal and bottom. Four values set top, right,
460 #: bottom and left.
461
462 window_padding_width 0
463
464 #: The window padding (in pts) (blank area between the text and the
465 #: window border). A single value sets all four sides. Two values set
466 #: the vertical and horizontal sides. Three values set top, horizontal
467 #: and bottom. Four values set top, right, bottom and left.
468
469 placement_strategy center
470
471 #: When the window size is not an exact multiple of the cell size, the
472 #: cell area of the terminal window will have some extra padding on
473 #: the sides. You can control how that padding is distributed with
474 #: this option. Using a value of center means the cell area will be
475 #: placed centrally. A value of top-left means the padding will be on
476 #: only the bottom and right edges.
477
478 active_border_color #00ff00
479
480 #: The color for the border of the active window. Set this to none to
481 #: not draw borders around the active window.
482
483 inactive_border_color #cccccc
484
485 #: The color for the border of inactive windows
486
487 bell_border_color #ff5a00
488
489 #: The color for the border of inactive windows in which a bell has
490 #: occurred
491
492 inactive_text_alpha 1.0
493
494 #: Fade the text in inactive windows by the specified amount (a number
495 #: between zero and one, with zero being fully faded).
496
497 hide_window_decorations no
498
499 #: Hide the window decorations (title-bar and window borders) with
500 #: yes. On macOS, titlebar-only can be used to only hide the titlebar.
501 #: Whether this works and exactly what effect it has depends on the
502 #: window manager/operating system.
503
504 resize_debounce_time 0.1
505
506 #: The time (in seconds) to wait before redrawing the screen when a
507 #: resize event is received. On platforms such as macOS, where the
508 #: operating system sends events corresponding to the start and end of
509 #: a resize, this number is ignored.
510
511 resize_draw_strategy static
512
513 #: Choose how kitty draws a window while a resize is in progress. A
514 #: value of static means draw the current window contents, mostly
515 #: unchanged. A value of scale means draw the current window contents
516 #: scaled. A value of blank means draw a blank window. A value of size
517 #: means show the window size in cells.
518
519 resize_in_steps no
520
521 #: Resize the OS window in steps as large as the cells, instead of
522 #: with the usual pixel accuracy. Combined with an
523 #: initial_window_width and initial_window_height in number of cells,
524 #: this option can be used to keep the margins as small as possible
525 #: when resizing the OS window. Note that this does not currently work
526 #: on Wayland.
527
528 confirm_os_window_close 0
529
530 #: Ask for confirmation when closing an OS window or a tab that has at
531 #: least this number of kitty windows in it. A value of zero disables
532 #: confirmation. This confirmation also applies to requests to quit
533 #: the entire application (all OS windows, via the quit action).
534
535 #: }}}
536
537 #: Tab bar {{{
538
539 tab_bar_edge bottom
540
541 #: Which edge to show the tab bar on, top or bottom
542
543 tab_bar_margin_width 0.0
544
545 #: The margin to the left and right of the tab bar (in pts)
546
547 tab_bar_style fade
548
549 #: The tab bar style, can be one of: fade, separator, powerline, or
550 #: hidden. In the fade style, each tab's edges fade into the
551 #: background color, in the separator style, tabs are separated by a
552 #: configurable separator, and the powerline shows the tabs as a
553 #: continuous line. If you use the hidden style, you might want to
554 #: create a mapping for the select_tab action which presents you with
555 #: a list of tabs and allows for easy switching to a tab.
556
557 tab_bar_min_tabs 2
558
559 #: The minimum number of tabs that must exist before the tab bar is
560 #: shown
561
562 tab_switch_strategy previous
563
564 #: The algorithm to use when switching to a tab when the current tab
565 #: is closed. The default of previous will switch to the last used
566 #: tab. A value of left will switch to the tab to the left of the
567 #: closed tab. A value of right will switch to the tab to the right of
568 #: the closed tab. A value of last will switch to the right-most tab.
569
570 tab_fade 0.25 0.5 0.75 1
571
572 #: Control how each tab fades into the background when using fade for
573 #: the tab_bar_style. Each number is an alpha (between zero and one)
574 #: that controls how much the corresponding cell fades into the
575 #: background, with zero being no fade and one being full fade. You
576 #: can change the number of cells used by adding/removing entries to
577 #: this list.
578
579 tab_separator " ┇"
580
581 #: The separator between tabs in the tab bar when using separator as
582 #: the tab_bar_style.
583
584 tab_activity_symbol none
585
586 #: Some text or a unicode symbol to show on the tab if a window in the
587 #: tab that does not have focus has some activity.
588
589 tab_title_template "{title}"
590
591 #: A template to render the tab title. The default just renders the
592 #: title. If you wish to include the tab-index as well, use something
593 #: like: {index}: {title}. Useful if you have shortcuts mapped for
594 #: goto_tab N. In addition you can use {layout_name} for the current
595 #: layout name and {num_windows} for the number of windows in the tab.
596 #: Note that formatting is done by Python's string formatting
597 #: machinery, so you can use, for instance, {layout_name[:2].upper()}
598 #: to show only the first two letters of the layout name, upper-cased.
599 #: If you want to style the text, you can use styling directives, for
600 #: example: {fmt.fg.red}red{fmt.fg.default}normal{fmt.bg._00FF00}green
601 #: bg{fmt.bg.normal}. Similarly, for bold and italic:
602 #: {fmt.bold}bold{fmt.nobold}normal{fmt.italic}italic{fmt.noitalic}.
603
604 active_tab_title_template none
605
606 #: Template to use for active tabs, if not specified falls back to
607 #: tab_title_template.
608
609 active_tab_foreground #000
610 active_tab_background #eee
611 active_tab_font_style bold-italic
612 inactive_tab_foreground #444
613 inactive_tab_background #999
614 inactive_tab_font_style normal
615
616 #: Tab bar colors and styles
617
618 tab_bar_background none
619
620 #: Background color for the tab bar. Defaults to using the terminal
621 #: background color.
622
623 #: }}}
624
625 #: Color scheme {{{
626
627 foreground #dddddd
628 background #000000
629
630 #: The foreground and background colors
631
632 background_opacity 1.0
633
634 #: The opacity of the background. A number between 0 and 1, where 1 is
635 #: opaque and 0 is fully transparent. This will only work if
636 #: supported by the OS (for instance, when using a compositor under
637 #: X11). Note that it only sets the background color's opacity in
638 #: cells that have the same background color as the default terminal
639 #: background. This is so that things like the status bar in vim,
640 #: powerline prompts, etc. still look good. But it means that if you
641 #: use a color theme with a background color in your editor, it will
642 #: not be rendered as transparent. Instead you should change the
643 #: default background color in your kitty config and not use a
644 #: background color in the editor color scheme. Or use the escape
645 #: codes to set the terminals default colors in a shell script to
646 #: launch your editor. Be aware that using a value less than 1.0 is a
647 #: (possibly significant) performance hit. If you want to dynamically
648 #: change transparency of windows set dynamic_background_opacity to
649 #: yes (this is off by default as it has a performance cost)
650
651 background_image none
652
653 #: Path to a background image. Must be in PNG format.
654
655 background_image_layout tiled
656
657 #: Whether to tile or scale the background image.
658
659 background_image_linear no
660
661 #: When background image is scaled, whether linear interpolation
662 #: should be used.
663
664 dynamic_background_opacity no
665
666 #: Allow changing of the background_opacity dynamically, using either
667 #: keyboard shortcuts (increase_background_opacity and
668 #: decrease_background_opacity) or the remote control facility.
669
670 background_tint 0.0
671
672 #: How much to tint the background image by the background color. The
673 #: tint is applied only under the text area, not margin/borders. Makes
674 #: it easier to read the text. Tinting is done using the current
675 #: background color for each window. This setting applies only if
676 #: background_opacity is set and transparent windows are supported or
677 #: background_image is set.
678
679 dim_opacity 0.75
680
681 #: How much to dim text that has the DIM/FAINT attribute set. One
682 #: means no dimming and zero means fully dimmed (i.e. invisible).
683
684 selection_foreground #000000
685
686 #: The foreground for text selected with the mouse. A value of none
687 #: means to leave the color unchanged.
688
689 selection_background #fffacd
690
691 #: The background for text selected with the mouse.
692
693
694 #: The 256 terminal colors. There are 8 basic colors, each color has a
695 #: dull and bright version, for the first 16 colors. You can set the
696 #: remaining 240 colors as color16 to color255.
697
698 color0 #000000
699 color8 #767676
700
701 #: black
702
703 color1 #cc0403
704 color9 #f2201f
705
706 #: red
707
708 color2 #19cb00
709 color10 #23fd00
710
711 #: green
712
713 color3 #cecb00
714 color11 #fffd00
715
716 #: yellow
717
718 color4 #0d73cc
719 color12 #1a8fff
720
721 #: blue
722
723 color5 #cb1ed1
724 color13 #fd28ff
725
726 #: magenta
727
728 color6 #0dcdcd
729 color14 #14ffff
730
731 #: cyan
732
733 color7 #dddddd
734 color15 #ffffff
735
736 #: white
737
738 mark1_foreground black
739
740 #: Color for marks of type 1
741
742 mark1_background #98d3cb
743
744 #: Color for marks of type 1 (light steel blue)
745
746 mark2_foreground black
747
748 #: Color for marks of type 2
749
750 mark2_background #f2dcd3
751
752 #: Color for marks of type 1 (beige)
753
754 mark3_foreground black
755
756 #: Color for marks of type 3
757
758 mark3_background #f274bc
759
760 #: Color for marks of type 1 (violet)
761
762 #: }}}
763
764 #: Advanced {{{
765
766 shell .
767
768 #: The shell program to execute. The default value of . means to use
769 #: whatever shell is set as the default shell for the current user.
770 #: Note that on macOS if you change this, you might need to add
771 #: --login to ensure that the shell starts in interactive mode and
772 #: reads its startup rc files.
773
774 editor .
775
776 #: The console editor to use when editing the kitty config file or
777 #: similar tasks. A value of . means to use the environment variables
778 #: VISUAL and EDITOR in that order. Note that this environment
779 #: variable has to be set not just in your shell startup scripts but
780 #: system-wide, otherwise kitty will not see it.
781
782 close_on_child_death no
783
784 #: Close the window when the child process (shell) exits. If no (the
785 #: default), the terminal will remain open when the child exits as
786 #: long as there are still processes outputting to the terminal (for
787 #: example disowned or backgrounded processes). If yes, the window
788 #: will close as soon as the child process exits. Note that setting it
789 #: to yes means that any background processes still using the terminal
790 #: can fail silently because their stdout/stderr/stdin no longer work.
791
792 allow_remote_control no
793
794 #: Allow other programs to control kitty. If you turn this on other
795 #: programs can control all aspects of kitty, including sending text
796 #: to kitty windows, opening new windows, closing windows, reading the
797 #: content of windows, etc. Note that this even works over ssh
798 #: connections. You can chose to either allow any program running
799 #: within kitty to control it, with yes or only programs that connect
800 #: to the socket specified with the kitty --listen-on command line
801 #: option, if you use the value socket-only. The latter is useful if
802 #: you want to prevent programs running on a remote computer over ssh
803 #: from controlling kitty.
804
805 listen_on none
806
807 #: Tell kitty to listen to the specified unix/tcp socket for remote
808 #: control connections. Note that this will apply to all kitty
809 #: instances. It can be overridden by the kitty --listen-on command
810 #: line flag. This option accepts only UNIX sockets, such as
811 #: unix:${TEMP}/mykitty or (on Linux) unix:@mykitty. Environment
812 #: variables are expanded. If {kitty_pid} is present then it is
813 #: replaced by the PID of the kitty process, otherwise the PID of the
814 #: kitty process is appended to the value, with a hyphen. This option
815 #: is ignored unless you also set allow_remote_control to enable
816 #: remote control. See the help for kitty --listen-on for more
817 #: details.
818
819 # env
820
821 #: Specify environment variables to set in all child processes. Note
822 #: that environment variables are expanded recursively, so if you
823 #: use::
824
825 #: env MYVAR1=a
826 #: env MYVAR2=${MYVAR1}/${HOME}/b
827
828 #: The value of MYVAR2 will be a/<path to home directory>/b.
829
830 update_check_interval 24
831
832 #: Periodically check if an update to kitty is available. If an update
833 #: is found a system notification is displayed informing you of the
834 #: available update. The default is to check every 24 hrs, set to zero
835 #: to disable.
836
837 startup_session none
838
839 #: Path to a session file to use for all kitty instances. Can be
840 #: overridden by using the kitty --session command line option for
841 #: individual instances. See
842 #: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/index.html#sessions in the kitty
843 #: documentation for details. Note that relative paths are interpreted
844 #: with respect to the kitty config directory. Environment variables
845 #: in the path are expanded.
846
847 clipboard_control write-clipboard write-primary
848
849 #: Allow programs running in kitty to read and write from the
850 #: clipboard. You can control exactly which actions are allowed. The
851 #: set of possible actions is: write-clipboard read-clipboard write-
852 #: primary read-primary. You can additionally specify no-append to
853 #: disable kitty's protocol extension for clipboard concatenation. The
854 #: default is to allow writing to the clipboard and primary selection
855 #: with concatenation enabled. Note that enabling the read
856 #: functionality is a security risk as it means that any program, even
857 #: one running on a remote server via SSH can read your clipboard.
858
859 allow_hyperlinks yes
860
861 #: Process hyperlink (OSC 8) escape sequences. If disabled OSC 8
862 #: escape sequences are ignored. Otherwise they become clickable
863 #: links, that you can click by holding down ctrl+shift and clicking
864 #: with the mouse. The special value of ``ask`` means that kitty will
865 #: ask before opening the link.
866
867 term xterm-kitty
868
869 #: The value of the TERM environment variable to set. Changing this
870 #: can break many terminal programs, only change it if you know what
871 #: you are doing, not because you read some advice on Stack Overflow
872 #: to change it. The TERM variable is used by various programs to get
873 #: information about the capabilities and behavior of the terminal. If
874 #: you change it, depending on what programs you run, and how
875 #: different the terminal you are changing it to is, various things
876 #: from key-presses, to colors, to various advanced features may not
877 #: work.
878
879 #: }}}
880
881 #: OS specific tweaks {{{
882
883 macos_titlebar_color system
884
885 #: Change the color of the kitty window's titlebar on macOS. A value
886 #: of system means to use the default system color, a value of
887 #: background means to use the background color of the currently
888 #: active window and finally you can use an arbitrary color, such as
889 #: #12af59 or red. WARNING: This option works by using a hack, as
890 #: there is no proper Cocoa API for it. It sets the background color
891 #: of the entire window and makes the titlebar transparent. As such it
892 #: is incompatible with background_opacity. If you want to use both,
893 #: you are probably better off just hiding the titlebar with
894 #: hide_window_decorations.
895
896 macos_option_as_alt no
897
898 #: Use the option key as an alt key. With this set to no, kitty will
899 #: use the macOS native Option+Key = unicode character behavior. This
900 #: will break any Alt+key keyboard shortcuts in your terminal
901 #: programs, but you can use the macOS unicode input technique. You
902 #: can use the values: left, right, or both to use only the left,
903 #: right or both Option keys as Alt, instead.
904
905 macos_hide_from_tasks no
906
907 #: Hide the kitty window from running tasks (Option+Tab) on macOS.
908
909 macos_quit_when_last_window_closed no
910
911 #: Have kitty quit when all the top-level windows are closed. By
912 #: default, kitty will stay running, even with no open windows, as is
913 #: the expected behavior on macOS.
914
915 macos_window_resizable yes
916
917 #: Disable this if you want kitty top-level (OS) windows to not be
918 #: resizable on macOS.
919
920 macos_thicken_font 0
921
922 #: Draw an extra border around the font with the given width, to
923 #: increase legibility at small font sizes. For example, a value of
924 #: 0.75 will result in rendering that looks similar to sub-pixel
925 #: antialiasing at common font sizes.
926
927 macos_traditional_fullscreen no
928
929 #: Use the traditional full-screen transition, that is faster, but
930 #: less pretty.
931
932 macos_show_window_title_in all
933
934 #: Show or hide the window title in the macOS window or menu-bar. A
935 #: value of window will show the title of the currently active window
936 #: at the top of the macOS window. A value of menubar will show the
937 #: title of the currently active window in the macOS menu-bar, making
938 #: use of otherwise wasted space. all will show the title everywhere
939 #: and none hides the title in the window and the menu-bar.
940
941 macos_custom_beam_cursor no
942
943 #: Enable/disable custom mouse cursor for macOS that is easier to see
944 #: on both light and dark backgrounds. WARNING: this might make your
945 #: mouse cursor invisible on dual GPU machines.
946
947 linux_display_server auto
948
949 #: Choose between Wayland and X11 backends. By default, an appropriate
950 #: backend based on the system state is chosen automatically. Set it
951 #: to x11 or wayland to force the choice.
952
953 #: }}}
954
955 #: Keyboard shortcuts {{{
956
957 #: Keys are identified simply by their lowercase unicode characters.
958 #: For example: ``a`` for the A key, ``[`` for the left square bracket
959 #: key, etc. For functional keys, such as ``Enter or Escape`` the
960 #: names are present at https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-
961 #: protocol.html#functional-key-definitions. For a list of modifier
962 #: names, see: GLFW mods
963 #: <https://www.glfw.org/docs/latest/group__mods.html>
964
965 #: On Linux you can also use XKB key names to bind keys that are not
966 #: supported by GLFW. See XKB keys
967 #: <https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/blob/master/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-
968 #: keysyms.h> for a list of key names. The name to use is the part
969 #: after the XKB_KEY_ prefix. Note that you can only use an XKB key
970 #: name for keys that are not known as GLFW keys.
971
972 #: Finally, you can use raw system key codes to map keys, again only
973 #: for keys that are not known as GLFW keys. To see the system key
974 #: code for a key, start kitty with the kitty --debug-keyboard option.
975 #: Then kitty will output some debug text for every key event. In that
976 #: text look for ``native_code`` the value of that becomes the key
977 #: name in the shortcut. For example:
978
979 #: .. code-block:: none
980
981 #: on_key_input: glfw key: 65 native_code: 0x61 action: PRESS mods: 0x0 text: 'a'
982
983 #: Here, the key name for the A key is 0x61 and you can use it with::
984
985 #: map ctrl+0x61 something
986
987 #: to map ctrl+a to something.
988
989 #: You can use the special action no_op to unmap a keyboard shortcut
990 #: that is assigned in the default configuration::
991
992 #: map kitty_mod+space no_op
993
994 #: You can combine multiple actions to be triggered by a single
995 #: shortcut, using the syntax below::
996
997 #: map key combine <separator> action1 <separator> action2 <separator> action3 ...
998
999 #: For example::
1000
1001 #: map kitty_mod+e combine : new_window : next_layout
1002
1003 #: this will create a new window and switch to the next available
1004 #: layout
1005
1006 #: You can use multi-key shortcuts using the syntax shown below::
1007
1008 #: map key1>key2>key3 action
1009
1010 #: For example::
1011
1012 #: map ctrl+f>2 set_font_size 20
1013
1014 kitty_mod ctrl+shift
1015
1016 #: The value of kitty_mod is used as the modifier for all default
1017 #: shortcuts, you can change it in your kitty.conf to change the
1018 #: modifiers for all the default shortcuts.
1019
1020 clear_all_shortcuts no
1021
1022 #: You can have kitty remove all shortcut definition seen up to this
1023 #: point. Useful, for instance, to remove the default shortcuts.
1024
1025 # kitten_alias hints hints --hints-offset=0
1026
1027 #: You can create aliases for kitten names, this allows overriding the
1028 #: defaults for kitten options and can also be used to shorten
1029 #: repeated mappings of the same kitten with a specific group of
1030 #: options. For example, the above alias changes the default value of
1031 #: kitty +kitten hints --hints-offset to zero for all mappings,
1032 #: including the builtin ones.
1033
1034 #: Clipboard {{{
1035
1036 map kitty_mod+c copy_to_clipboard
1037
1038 #: There is also a copy_or_interrupt action that can be optionally
1039 #: mapped to Ctrl+c. It will copy only if there is a selection and
1040 #: send an interrupt otherwise. Similarly, copy_and_clear_or_interrupt
1041 #: will copy and clear the selection or send an interrupt if there is
1042 #: no selection.
1043
1044 map kitty_mod+v paste_from_clipboard
1045 map kitty_mod+s paste_from_selection
1046 map shift+insert paste_from_selection
1047 map kitty_mod+o pass_selection_to_program
1048
1049 #: You can also pass the contents of the current selection to any
1050 #: program using pass_selection_to_program. By default, the system's
1051 #: open program is used, but you can specify your own, the selection
1052 #: will be passed as a command line argument to the program, for
1053 #: example::
1054
1055 #: map kitty_mod+o pass_selection_to_program firefox
1056
1057 #: You can pass the current selection to a terminal program running in
1058 #: a new kitty window, by using the @selection placeholder::
1059
1060 #: map kitty_mod+y new_window less @selection
1061
1062 #: }}}
1063
1064 #: Scrolling {{{
1065
1066 map kitty_mod+up scroll_line_up
1067 map kitty_mod+k scroll_line_up
1068 map kitty_mod+down scroll_line_down
1069 map kitty_mod+j scroll_line_down
1070 map kitty_mod+page_up scroll_page_up
1071 map kitty_mod+page_down scroll_page_down
1072 map kitty_mod+home scroll_home
1073 map kitty_mod+end scroll_end
1074 map kitty_mod+h show_scrollback
1075
1076 #: You can pipe the contents of the current screen + history buffer as
1077 #: STDIN to an arbitrary program using the ``launch`` function. For
1078 #: example, the following opens the scrollback buffer in less in an
1079 #: overlay window::
1080
1081 #: map f1 launch --stdin-source=@screen_scrollback --stdin-add-formatting --type=overlay less +G -R
1082
1083 #: For more details on piping screen and buffer contents to external
1084 #: programs, see launch.
1085
1086 #: }}}
1087
1088 #: Window management {{{
1089
1090 map kitty_mod+enter new_window
1091
1092 #: You can open a new window running an arbitrary program, for
1093 #: example::
1094
1095 #: map kitty_mod+y launch mutt
1096
1097 #: You can open a new window with the current working directory set to
1098 #: the working directory of the current window using::
1099
1100 #: map ctrl+alt+enter launch --cwd=current
1101
1102 #: You can open a new window that is allowed to control kitty via the
1103 #: kitty remote control facility by prefixing the command line with @.
1104 #: Any programs running in that window will be allowed to control
1105 #: kitty. For example::
1106
1107 #: map ctrl+enter launch --allow-remote-control some_program
1108
1109 #: You can open a new window next to the currently active window or as
1110 #: the first window, with::
1111
1112 #: map ctrl+n launch --location=neighbor some_program
1113 #: map ctrl+f launch --location=first some_program
1114
1115 #: For more details, see launch.
1116
1117 map kitty_mod+n new_os_window
1118
1119 #: Works like new_window above, except that it opens a top level OS
1120 #: kitty window. In particular you can use new_os_window_with_cwd to
1121 #: open a window with the current working directory.
1122
1123 map kitty_mod+w close_window
1124 map kitty_mod+] next_window
1125 map kitty_mod+[ previous_window
1126 map kitty_mod+f move_window_forward
1127 map kitty_mod+b move_window_backward
1128 map kitty_mod+` move_window_to_top
1129 map kitty_mod+r start_resizing_window
1130 map kitty_mod+1 first_window
1131 map kitty_mod+2 second_window
1132 map kitty_mod+3 third_window
1133 map kitty_mod+4 fourth_window
1134 map kitty_mod+5 fifth_window
1135 map kitty_mod+6 sixth_window
1136 map kitty_mod+7 seventh_window
1137 map kitty_mod+8 eighth_window
1138 map kitty_mod+9 ninth_window
1139 map kitty_mod+0 tenth_window
1140 #: }}}
1141
1142 #: Tab management {{{
1143
1144 map kitty_mod+right next_tab
1145 map kitty_mod+left previous_tab
1146 map kitty_mod+t new_tab
1147 map kitty_mod+q close_tab
1148 map kitty_mod+. move_tab_forward
1149 map kitty_mod+, move_tab_backward
1150 map kitty_mod+alt+t set_tab_title
1151
1152 #: You can also create shortcuts to go to specific tabs, with 1 being
1153 #: the first tab, 2 the second tab and -1 being the previously active
1154 #: tab, and any number larger than the last tab being the last tab::
1155
1156 #: map ctrl+alt+1 goto_tab 1
1157 #: map ctrl+alt+2 goto_tab 2
1158
1159 #: Just as with new_window above, you can also pass the name of
1160 #: arbitrary commands to run when using new_tab and use
1161 #: new_tab_with_cwd. Finally, if you want the new tab to open next to
1162 #: the current tab rather than at the end of the tabs list, use::
1163
1164 #: map ctrl+t new_tab !neighbor [optional cmd to run]
1165 #: }}}
1166
1167 #: Layout management {{{
1168
1169 map kitty_mod+l next_layout
1170
1171 #: You can also create shortcuts to switch to specific layouts::
1172
1173 #: map ctrl+alt+t goto_layout tall
1174 #: map ctrl+alt+s goto_layout stack
1175
1176 #: Similarly, to switch back to the previous layout::
1177
1178 #: map ctrl+alt+p last_used_layout
1179 #: }}}
1180
1181 #: Font sizes {{{
1182
1183 #: You can change the font size for all top-level kitty OS windows at
1184 #: a time or only the current one.
1185
1186 map kitty_mod+equal change_font_size all +2.0
1187 map kitty_mod+plus change_font_size all +2.0
1188 map kitty_mod+kp_add change_font_size all +2.0
1189 map kitty_mod+minus change_font_size all -2.0
1190 map kitty_mod+kp_subtract change_font_size all -2.0
1191 map kitty_mod+backspace change_font_size all 0
1192
1193 #: To setup shortcuts for specific font sizes::
1194
1195 #: map kitty_mod+f6 change_font_size all 10.0
1196
1197 #: To setup shortcuts to change only the current OS window's font
1198 #: size::
1199
1200 #: map kitty_mod+f6 change_font_size current 10.0
1201 #: }}}
1202
1203 #: Select and act on visible text {{{
1204
1205 #: Use the hints kitten to select text and either pass it to an
1206 #: external program or insert it into the terminal or copy it to the
1207 #: clipboard.
1208
1209 map kitty_mod+e kitten hints
1210
1211 #: Open a currently visible URL using the keyboard. The program used
1212 #: to open the URL is specified in open_url_with.
1213
1214 map kitty_mod+p>f kitten hints --type path --program -
1215
1216 #: Select a path/filename and insert it into the terminal. Useful, for
1217 #: instance to run git commands on a filename output from a previous
1218 #: git command.
1219
1220 map kitty_mod+p>shift+f kitten hints --type path
1221
1222 #: Select a path/filename and open it with the default open program.
1223
1224 map kitty_mod+p>l kitten hints --type line --program -
1225
1226 #: Select a line of text and insert it into the terminal. Use for the
1227 #: output of things like: ls -1
1228
1229 map kitty_mod+p>w kitten hints --type word --program -
1230
1231 #: Select words and insert into terminal.
1232
1233 map kitty_mod+p>h kitten hints --type hash --program -
1234
1235 #: Select something that looks like a hash and insert it into the
1236 #: terminal. Useful with git, which uses sha1 hashes to identify
1237 #: commits
1238
1239 map kitty_mod+p>n kitten hints --type linenum
1240
1241 #: Select something that looks like filename:linenum and open it in
1242 #: vim at the specified line number.
1243
1244 map kitty_mod+p>y kitten hints --type hyperlink
1245
1246 #: Select a hyperlink (i.e. a URL that has been marked as such by the
1247 #: terminal program, for example, by ls --hyperlink=auto).
1248
1249
1250 #: The hints kitten has many more modes of operation that you can map
1251 #: to different shortcuts. For a full description see kittens/hints.
1252 #: }}}
1253
1254 #: Miscellaneous {{{
1255
1256 map kitty_mod+f11 toggle_fullscreen
1257 map kitty_mod+f10 toggle_maximized
1258 map kitty_mod+u kitten unicode_input
1259 map kitty_mod+f2 edit_config_file
1260 map kitty_mod+escape kitty_shell window
1261
1262 #: Open the kitty shell in a new window/tab/overlay/os_window to
1263 #: control kitty using commands.
1264
1265 map kitty_mod+a>m set_background_opacity +0.1
1266 map kitty_mod+a>l set_background_opacity -0.1
1267 map kitty_mod+a>1 set_background_opacity 1
1268 map kitty_mod+a>d set_background_opacity default
1269 map kitty_mod+delete clear_terminal reset active
1270
1271 #: You can create shortcuts to clear/reset the terminal. For example::
1272
1273 #: # Reset the terminal
1274 #: map kitty_mod+f9 clear_terminal reset active
1275 #: # Clear the terminal screen by erasing all contents
1276 #: map kitty_mod+f10 clear_terminal clear active
1277 #: # Clear the terminal scrollback by erasing it
1278 #: map kitty_mod+f11 clear_terminal scrollback active
1279 #: # Scroll the contents of the screen into the scrollback
1280 #: map kitty_mod+f12 clear_terminal scroll active
1281
1282 #: If you want to operate on all windows instead of just the current
1283 #: one, use all instead of active.
1284
1285 #: It is also possible to remap Ctrl+L to both scroll the current
1286 #: screen contents into the scrollback buffer and clear the screen,
1287 #: instead of just clearing the screen::
1288
1289 #: map ctrl+l combine : clear_terminal scroll active : send_text normal,application \x0c
1290
1291
1292 #: You can tell kitty to send arbitrary (UTF-8) encoded text to the
1293 #: client program when pressing specified shortcut keys. For example::
1294
1295 #: map ctrl+alt+a send_text all Special text
1296
1297 #: This will send "Special text" when you press the ctrl+alt+a key
1298 #: combination. The text to be sent is a python string literal so you
1299 #: can use escapes like \x1b to send control codes or \u21fb to send
1300 #: unicode characters (or you can just input the unicode characters
1301 #: directly as UTF-8 text). The first argument to send_text is the
1302 #: keyboard modes in which to activate the shortcut. The possible
1303 #: values are normal or application or kitty or a comma separated
1304 #: combination of them. The special keyword all means all modes. The
1305 #: modes normal and application refer to the DECCKM cursor key mode
1306 #: for terminals, and kitty refers to the special kitty extended
1307 #: keyboard protocol.
1308
1309 #: Another example, that outputs a word and then moves the cursor to
1310 #: the start of the line (same as pressing the Home key)::
1311
1312 #: map ctrl+alt+a send_text normal Word\x1b[H
1313 #: map ctrl+alt+a send_text application Word\x1bOH
1314
1315 #: }}}
1316
1317 # }}}