Integrations with other tools¶
kitty provides extremely powerful interfaces such as Controlling kitty from scripts or the shell and Custom kittens and icat - Display images in the terminal that allow it to be integrated with other tools seamlessly.
Image and document viewers¶
Powered by kitty's The terminal graphics protocol there exist many tools for viewing images and other types of documents directly in your terminal, even over SSH.
- termpdf.py
a terminal PDF/DJVU/CBR viewer
- mdcat
Display markdown files nicely formatted with images in the terminal
- ranger
a terminal file manager, with previews of file contents powered by kitty's graphics protocol.
- nnn
another terminal file manager, with previews of file contents powered by kitty's graphics protocol.
- hunter
another terminal file manager, with previews of file contents powered by kitty's graphics protocol.
- koneko
browse images from the pixiv artist community directly in kitty.
- viu
view images in the terminal, similar to kitty's icat.
- nb
command line and local web note-taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application that uses kitty's graphics protocol for images.
- w3m
A text mode WWW browser that supports kitty's graphics protocol to display images.
- timg
A terminal image and video viewer, that displays static and animated images or plays videos. Fast multi-threaded loading, JPEG exif rotation, grid view and connecting to the webcam make it a versatile terminal utility.
System and data visualisation tools¶
- neofetch
A command line system information tool that shows images using kitty's graphics protocol
- matplotlib
show matplotlib plots directly in kitty
- KittyTerminalImages.jl
show images from Julia directly in kitty
- euporie
a text-based user interface for running and editing Jupyter notebooks, powered by kitty's graphics protocol for displaying plots
- gnuplot
a graphing and data visualization tool that can be made to display its output in kitty with the following bash snippet:
function iplot { cat <<EOF | gnuplot set terminal pngcairo enhanced font 'Fira Sans,10' set autoscale set samples 1000 set output '|kitty +kitten icat --stdin yes' set object 1 rectangle from screen 0,0 to screen 1,1 fillcolor rgb"#fdf6e3" behind plot $@ set output '/dev/null' EOF }
Add this to bashrc and then to plot a function, simply do:
iplot 'sin(x*3)*exp(x*.2)'
- onefetch
a tool to fetch information about your git repositories
- patat
terminal based presentations using pandoc and kitty's image protocol for images
- wttr.in
a tool to display weather information in your terminal with curl
- wl-clipboard-manager
view and manage the system clipboard under Wayland in your kitty terminal
- dmenu-term
run applications on your system with fuzzy find inside a kitty window
Editor integration¶
kitty can be integrated into many different terminal editors to add features such a split windows, previews, REPLs etc.
- kakoune
integrates with kitty to use native kitty windows for its windows/panels and REPLs.
- vim-slime
uses kitty remote control for a Lisp REPL.
- vim-kitty-navigator
allows you to navigate seamlessly between vim and kitty splits using a consistent set of hotkeys.
- vim-test
allows easily running tests in a terminal window
- hologram.nvim
terminal image viewer for nvim
Scrollback manipulation¶
- kitty-search
Live incremental search of the scrollback buffer.
- kitty-grab
keyboard based text selection for the kitty scrollback buffer.
Miscellaneous¶
- kitty-smart-tab
use keys to either control tabs or pass them onto running applications if no tabs are present
- kitty-smart-scroll
use keys to either scroll or pass them onto running applications if no scrollback buffer is present
- reload keybindings
reload key bindings from
kitty.conf
without needing to restart kitty- kitti3
allow using kitty as a drop-down terminal under the i3 window manager
- weechat-hints
URL hints kitten for WeeChat that works without having to use WeeChat's raw-mode.
- glkitty
C library to draw OpenGL shaders in the terminal with a glgears demo