Kitty
Configuring a terminal by merging custom key-values with its self-documented template, Using a terminal for its customizability, speed, and features like ligatures and automatic tiling panes
Kitty is a highly customizable and fast terminal, but its reliance on Python may be a dealbreaker for some.
Users who avoid software with extensive Python dependencies, considering it a potential maintenance pain
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FIRST-HAND READS
What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“have kitty as terminal with awesome shortcuts for tab navigation”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-11
“embracing the total scriptability of my favorite terminal, Kitty”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-08
“Kitty image format works great and allows for Avatars, image previews, etc, which helps immensely”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-02
“the eye candy in kitty is worth the extra memory usage. at least for me, it makes the experience much smoother”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-15
“kinda possible already today with the Kitty graphics protocol, I made a demo here of rendering 3D graphics”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-11
“Kitty is a magnificent piece of software that has radically enhanced the interface between me and my computer. And it does this while consuming negligible resources.”
POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-29
“kitty/fish/tmux support OSC 133 pretty well and I can press one button to go up to the previous command prompt and another button to go back. I can press a few keys to search the scrollback. It all works seamlessly across SSH sessions too”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-16
“just wanted to see how far the Kitty graphics protocol could go in Emacs. When I realized you could get surprisingly far with zero dependencies”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-11
“I was a long-time Kitty user, but switching to Ghostty has been a big upgrade for my workflow. Hard to go back now.”
NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-01
“Kitty is the best one. It has several features which have proven so useful I wasn't able to stay on anything else for more than a couple of hours”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-01
“I have occasionally needed similar hacks for Kitty and urxvt”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-01
“Kitty has been my top performing terminal emulator for 10 years now”
POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-27
“that shortcut also doesn't work in the Jetbrains terminal, Alacritty, Kitty, and even iTerm2”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-24
“kitty never seemed to be much of an improvement for my own workflows”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-17
“I observe this with many terminals (gnome-terminal, wezterm, kitty, alacritty, xterm)”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-06-24
“I did not find an (acceptable) way to simulate the behaviour of ddterm GNOME extension with kitty or alacritty”
LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2025-01-27
“bounced around between iTerm2, Kitty, Alacritty and Wezterm, but while they all are more "modern", I find that none of them seem to have that basic "New Window with Profile ..." option”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-10-03
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