software catalog

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+title: "kitty"
+category: "Terminal and shell"
+tagline: "A GPU-based terminal emulator you can script and extend."
+source: "pacman"
+package: "kitty"
+command: "kitty"
+website: "https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/"
+code: "https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty"
+---
+
+## What it is
+
+kitty is a terminal emulator that renders on the GPU and is built to be driven from the keyboard. It has its own tabs and window layouts, a protocol for showing images in the terminal, and "kittens": small add-on programs for things like viewing images, diffing files or picking Unicode characters. Everything is set in a plain text file, `~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf`.
+
+## Why it's here
+
+- **Keyboard-first.** Tabs, splits and layouts are all on shortcuts.
+- **Scriptable.** You can control a running kitty from the command line or from scripts.
+- **Graphics in the terminal.** Tools that support its image protocol can show pictures inline.
+
+## On CoreDesktop
+
+kitty is installed from pacman. Open it from the app grid or type `kitty`. It's the last fallback CoreDesktop's update notification uses to open a terminal for `update`.
+
+`update` keeps kitty current along with the rest of the pacman packages.