kitty provides extremely powerful interfaces such as :doc:`remote-control` and :doc:`kittens/custom` and :doc:`kittens/icat` that allow it to be integrated with other tools seamlessly.
Powered by kitty's :doc:`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.
- 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
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
- kitty-search
- Live incremental search of the scrollback buffer.
- kitty-grab
- keyboard based text selection for the kitty scrollback buffer.
- 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 :file:`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