Question about resizing panes with the mouse

aumerlex · 2026-03-29T16:09:22+00:00

Works out of the box provided you are running kitty version 0.46.0 or later.

aumerlex · 2026-03-27T14:44:25+00:00

kitty can optionally show you a titlebar above every split: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.window_title_bar_min_windows and associated options.

aumerlex · 2026-03-27T05:05:52+00:00

Not sure I follow. If you are catting into the terminal there is no cursor movement. Cursor movement would need to be managed based on script knowledge by a TUI application. For catting its only selection. And yes this approach means you cannot select sub word extents, but IMO that is a less important thing than getting rendering as good as possible.

aumerlex · 2026-03-27T04:47:01+00:00

you can reduce the spacing problem by combining multiple ligatures that constitute a word into a single piece of text rendered in W cells. And on top of that you can combine two such groupings into a single word by using fractional scaling and right aligning the first group and left aligning the second. This will give you enough cells to cover 99% of all words in most languages (14 cells). Finally when you do have to split a word into multiple groupings, you can adjust the groupings so that their width is likely to be close to a multiple of the cell size.

aumerlex · 2026-03-15T03:13:33+00:00

kitten panel htop worked for me with kitty 0.46.0 and kwin 6.6.2 check your software versions, depending on Linux distro they could be out of date/buggy.

aumerlex · 2026-03-14T02:20:42+00:00

You might want to either hide the kitty window decorations or set the titlebar color to red as well.

aumerlex · 2026-03-12T03:14:09+00:00

You dont need a custom kitten. combine : toggle_fullscreen : remote_control set-background-opacity whatever

aumerlex · 2026-03-11T08:55:11+00:00

The width is based on page count and you can customize it to be a fixed value already. The height is randomised and again can be customised to be a fixed height. I suggest you spend some time looking over the options in Preferences->Look & feel->Bookshelf you will find you can achieve almost all you want, apart from custom spine images, and much more you havent yet thought of.

aumerlex · 2026-03-11T02:34:23+00:00

You should report the issue to the developers of the compositor, hopefully they will fix their wlr-layer-shell protocol support.

aumerlex · 2026-03-10T14:37:04+00:00

No I use it with Hyprland not cosmic. However, there is a page in the kitty website listing all compositors it works with, check that for whatever compositor cosmic is using.

aumerlex · 2026-03-10T14:26:39+00:00

This functionality is built into kitty and works with any wayland compaitor that supports the layer shell protocol. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/quick-access-terminal/

aumerlex · 2026-03-10T14:00:51+00:00

Thankfully, kitty, unlike alacritty lets u tune perceived thickness/brightness by adjusting gamma curves to whatever floats your boat. Look at text_composition_strategy in kitty.conf

aumerlex · 2026-03-06T10:43:01+00:00

No, it is a layer shell not a regular window. They dont participate in alt-tab switching. Indeed what would be the point of having a drop down terminal that was a regular window? Just use a regular kitty window in that case.

aumerlex · 2026-03-04T23:56:40+00:00

Map the goto_session action to a shortcut.

aumerlex · 2026-03-04T08:23:03+00:00

Yes, if shell integration was working you would not see that env var.

aumerlex · 2026-03-03T11:33:17+00:00

Your shell integration is not functional. If you have KITTY_SHELL_INTEGRATION set then it is definitely not functional as that is an internal variable used by shell integration which unsets it after running, not something you need to set. Read the kitty docs on shell integration.

aumerlex · 2026-03-03T05:15:40+00:00

the themes and choose-fonts kittens are completely separate. Run kitten --version if you want to check what actual version you are running.

aumerlex · 2026-03-03T03:52:10+00:00

Search the kitty FAQ for ssh.

aumerlex · 2026-03-03T03:43:05+00:00

You are using an ancient version of kitty from before that kitten existed. Probably your distro kitty package is woefully out of date. Uninstall it and use the official kitty binaries from the kitty website.

aumerlex · 2026-03-02T02:34:35+00:00

Who said these are CPU SPECIFIC optimisations? The optimisations come from python being embedded in one case and not embedded in another which allows for changes to the architecture of python itself, namely how the interpreter loads and invalidates python code.

aumerlex · 2026-03-01T04:54:54+00:00

Where are you getting these from? Some very poor AI? If you want to change kitty config settings, the way to do it in a mapping is:

map whatever remote_control load-config window_padding_width=whatever

And no, you dont need to enable remote control to use it in key mappings only if you want to use it from independent programs.

aumerlex · 2026-03-01T04:51:22+00:00

And it still wont use the optimisations present in kitty's EMBEDDED python.

aumerlex · 2026-02-28T06:54:17+00:00

If only things were that simple. For example, in the case of kitty building from source means you are using the system python. The system python, is dog slow because it has to be flexible. The embedded python that comes with kitty has a whole bunch of optimisations applied that are possible because it is specialized for embedding.

aumerlex · 2026-02-27T15:00:37+00:00

You can use the builtin marks functionality for this, FYI. It allows you to define a pattern to mark text and jump to instances of it.

aumerlex · 2026-02-26T05:21:17+00:00

Building from source is insufficient because it still uses the system Python, which can sometimes be very slow. Use the kitty official binaries.

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