[roylez]

My kitty configuration has grown too much and I could hardly memorise all the customisations. I use its remote control heavily for my workflow. Before kitty, I usually use xterm or urxvt, which are still cool and fast but I cannot go back to the days without those terminal customisations.

[zeppelin101]

How do you use the remote control of Kitty? I have barely explored it.

[bayesianbot]

Not OP but

- Terminal search and focus (you can list kitty tabs and windows and get the window content from the socket, implementing a BM25 based search is quite easy)

- Giving the current terminal content for AI, so I can do things like run `ls` and then write "Rename the files (in some way)", and push the whole thing to LLM that replaces the command line without me having to write the full context

I even have a Codex session finder that uses codex session files to list and select the session I want, and then uses the kitty socket to find and focus the window which matches the session content

[roylez]

The ones that I use the most are designed to reduce context switching, like:

Mutt, personal wiki (fzf searching and neovim editing) and todo (a long never ending markdown file), they all have dedicated shortcut (cmd+m/cmd+z/cmd+d) to open(switch to) their window. These applications, always reside in the first tab with stack layout. For example, I can press cmd+m to switch to mutt (or open it), and press cmd+m again to switch back to the previously focused window.

Depending on which repl is running, I can usually open up vim to edit the line with the same cmd+e shortcut, which sends C-X C-E in bash/zsh, ESC O in iex, C-O in aichat ... Also vertical split in tmux and kitty tab share the same shortcut, cmd+|.

Kitty does not have a command palette, and I use fzf to search some of my frequently used operations and make this my command palette.

[casparvitch]

Yeah I understand all the flashy bits in kitty, but do you need GPU levels of speed? `foot` is much faster than my typing/brain in all cases.

[wredcoll]

There are genuinely moments where something in the hell-stack of terminal-bash-ssh-tmux is slow enough that rendering speed is affected and its annoying.

Is this fixable by using a gpu? Probably not, but I'm willing to give it a try!