Kitty

Kitty is a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator available in the Debian repository.

Setup notes

kitty is a Debian package available in most repositories.

$ sudo apt install kitty

Make sure to install the kitty-terminfo package on remote systems being SSH'd into via kitty in order to allow control signals (e.g. arrow key movement) to work correctly. (see ref)

$ ssh username@server
$ sudo apt install kitty-terminfo

Shortcuts

Ctrl+Shift+Esc

Opens kitty shell which allows kitty-specific commands to be run, changing kittyʼs behavior. (e.g. close-tab to close an unresponsive tab).

See also

• Wikipedia:kitty (terminal emulator)