kitty

If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for YOU!

The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator.

Fast

• Uses GPU and SIMD vector CPU instructions for best in class performance

• Uses threaded rendering for absolutely minimal latency

• Performance tradeoffs can be tuned

Capable

• Graphics, with images and animations

• Ligatures, emoji with per glyph font substitution and variable fonts and font features

• Hyperlinks, with configurable actions

Scriptable

• Control from scripts or the shell

• Extend with kittens using the Python language

• Use startup sessions to specify working environments

Composable

• Programmable tabs, splits and multiple layouts to manage windows

• Browse the entire history or the output from the last command comfortably in pagers and editors

• Edit or download remote files in an existing SSH session

Cross-platform

• Linux

• macOS

• Various BSDs

Innovative

Pioneered various extensions to move the entire terminal ecosystem forward

• Terminal graphics protocol

• Comprehensive keyboard handling in terminals

• Lots more in Terminal protocol extensions

To get started see Quickstart.