Integrations with other tools#
kitty provides extremely powerful interfaces such as Control kitty from scripts and Custom kittens and icat that allow it to be integrated with other tools seamlessly.
Image and document viewers#
Powered by kitty's 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
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.
System and data visualisation tools#
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)'
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 based text editors to add features such a split windows, previews, REPLs etc.
vim-kitty-navigator#
Allows you to navigate seamlessly between vim and kitty splits using a consistent set of hotkeys.
hologram.nvim#
Terminal image viewer for Neovim
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
weechat-hints#
URL hints kitten for WeeChat that works without having to use WeeChat's raw-mode.