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Prevents tearing while scrolling. See #318 Reduce draw calls while processing mouse move events to make latency while selecting with the mouse acceptable. Also add a config option to turn off monitor syncing, so people with keyboard repeat rates higher than their monitor's refresh rate can use it.
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Changelog
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kitty is a feature full, cross-platform, *fast*, GPU based terminal emulator.
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version 0.8.0 [future]
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- A framework for kittens, that is, small terminal programs designed to run
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inside kitty and extend its capabilities. Examples include unicode input and
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selecting URLs with the keyboard.
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- Input arbitrary unicode characters by pressing Ctrl+Shift+u. You can choose
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characters by name, by hex code, by recently used, etc. There is even and
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editable Favorites list.
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- Open URLs using only the keyboard. kitty has a new "hints mode". Press
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Ctrl+Shift+e and all detected URLs on the screen are highlighted with a key
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to press to open them. The facility is customizable so you can change
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what is detected as a URL and which program is used to open it.
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- Only consider Emoji characters with default Emoji presentation to be two
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cells wide. This matches the standard. Also add support for the Unicode Emoji
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variation presentation selector.
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- Prevent video tearing during high speed scrolling by syncing draws
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to the monitor's refresh rate. There is a new configuration option to
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control this ``sync_to_monitor``.
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- Add some non standard terminfo capabilities used by neovim and tmux.
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- Fix large drop in performance when using multiple top-level windows on macOS
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- Fix save/restore of window sizes not working correctly.
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- Remove option to use system wcwidth(). Now always use a wcwidth() based on
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the Unicode standard. Only sane way.
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- Fix a regression that caused a few ligature glyphs to not render correctly in
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rare circumstances.
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- Browsing the scrollback buffer now happens in an overlay window instead of a
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new window/tab.
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version 0.7.1 [2018-01-31]
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- Add an option to adjust the width of character cells
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- Fix selecting text with the mouse in the scrollback buffer selecting text
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from the line above the actually selected line
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- Fix some italic fonts having the right edge of characters cut-off,
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unnecessarily
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version 0.7.0 [2018-01-24]
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- Allow controlling kitty from the shell prompt/scripts. You can
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open/close/rename windows and tabs and even send input to specific windows.
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See the README for details.
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- Add option to put tab bar at the top instead of the bottom
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- Add option to override the default shell
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- Add "Horizontal" and "Vertical" window layouts
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- Sessions: Allow setting titles and working directories for individual windows
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- Option to copy to clipboard on mouse select
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- Fix incorrect reporting of mouse move events when using the SGR protocol
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- Make alt+backspace delete the previous word
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- Take the mouse wheel multiplier option in to account when generating fake key
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scroll events
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- macOS: Fix closing top-level window does not transfer focus to other
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top-level windows.
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- macOS: Fix alt+arrow keys not working when disabling the macos_option_as_alt
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config option.
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- kitty icat: Workaround for bug in ImageMagick that would cause some images
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to fail to display at certain sizes.
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- Fix rendering of text with ligature fonts that do not use dummy glyphs
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- Fix a regression that caused copying of the selection to clipboard to only
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copy the visible part of the selection
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- Fix incorrect handling of some unicode combining marks that are not re-ordered
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- Fix handling on non-BMP combining characters
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- Drop the dependency on libunistring
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version 0.6.1 [2017-12-28]
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- Add an option to fade the text in inactive windows
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- Add new actions to open windows/tabs/etc. with the working directory set to
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the working directory of the current window.
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- Automatically adjust cell size when DPI changes, for example when kitty is
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moved from one monitor to another with a different DPI
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- Ensure underlines are rendered even for fonts with very poor metrics
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- Fix some emoji glyphs not colored on Linux
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- Internal wcwidth() implementation is now auto-generated from the unicode
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standard database
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- Allow configuring the modifiers to use for rectangular selection with the
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mouse.
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- Fix incorrect minimum wayland version in the build script
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- Fix a crash when detecting a URL that ends at the end of the line
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- Fix regression that broke drawing of hollow cursor when window loses focus
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version 0.6.0 [2017-12-18]
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- Support background transparency via the background_opacity option. Provided
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that your OS/window manager supports transparency, you can now have kitty
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render pixels that have only the default background color as
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semi-transparent.
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- Support multiple top level (OS) windows. These windows all share the sprite
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texture cache on the GPU, further reducing overall resource usage. Use
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the shortcut `ctrl+shift+n` to open a new top-level window.
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- Add support for a *daemon* mode using the `--single-instance` command line
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option. With this option you can have only a single kitty instance running.
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All future invocations simply open new top-level windows in the existing
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instance.
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- Support colored emoji
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- Use CoreText instead of FreeType to render text on macOS
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- Support running on the "low power" GPU on dual GPU macOS machines
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- Add a new "grid" window layout
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- Drop the dependency on glfw (kitty now uses a modified, bundled copy of glfw)
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- Add an option to control the audio bell volume on X11 systems
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- Add a command line switch to set the name part of the WM_CLASS window
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property independently.
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- Add a command line switch to set the window title.
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- Add more options to customize the tab-bar's appearance (font styles and
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separator)
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- Allow drag and drop of files into kitty. On drop kitty will paste the
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file path to the running program.
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- Add an option to control the underline style for URL highlighting on hover
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- X11: Set the WINDOWID environment variable
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- Fix middle and right buttons swapped when sending mouse events to child
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processes
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- Allow selecting in a rectangle by holding down Ctrl+Alt while dragging with
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the mouse.
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version 0.5.1 [2017-12-01]
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- Add an option to control the thickness of lines in box drawing characters
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- Increase max. allowed ligature length to nine characters
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- Fix text not vertically centered when adjusting line height
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- Fix unicode block characters not being rendered properly
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- Fix shift+up/down not generating correct escape codes
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- Image display: Fix displaying images taller than two screen heights not
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scrolling properly
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version 0.5.0 [2017-11-19]
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- Add support for ligature fonts such as Fira Code, Hasklig, etc. kitty now
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uses harfbuzz for text shaping which allow it to support advanced OpenType
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features such as contextual alternates/ligatures/combining glyphs/etc.
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- Make it easy to select fonts by allowing listing of monospace fonts using:
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kitty list-fonts
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- Add an option to have window focus follow mouse
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- Add a keyboard shortcut (ctrl+shift+f11) to toggle fullscreen mode
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- macOS: Fix handling of option key. It now behaves just like the alt key on
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Linux. There is an option to make it type unicode characters instead.
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- Linux: Add support for startup notification on X11 desktops. kitty will
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now inform the window manager when its startup is complete.
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- Fix shell prompt being duplicated when window is resized
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- Fix crash when displaying more than 64 images in the same session
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- Add support for colons in SGR color codes. These are generated by some
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applications such as neovim when they mistakenly identify kitty as a libvte
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based terminal.
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- Fix mouse interaction not working in apps using obsolete mouse interaction
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protocols
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- Linux: no longer require glew as a dependency
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version 0.4.2 [2017-10-23]
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- Fix a regression in 0.4.0 that broke custom key mappings
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- Fix a regression in 0.4.0 that broke support for non-QWERTY keyboard layouts
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- Avoid using threads to reap zombie child processes. Also prevent kitty from
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hanging if the open program hangs when clicking on a URL.
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version 0.4.0 [2017-10-22]
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- Support for drawing arbitrary raster graphics (images) in the terminal via a
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new graphics protocol. kitty can draw images with full 32-bit color using both
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ssh connections and files/shared memory (when available) for better
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performance. The drawing primitives support alpha blending and z-index.
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Images can be drawn both above and below text. See
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https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/graphics-protocol.asciidoc
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for details.
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- Refactor kitty's internals to make it even faster and more efficient. The CPU
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usage of kitty + X server while doing intensive tasks such as scrolling a
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file continuously in less has been reduced by 50%. There are now two
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configuration options ``repaint_delay`` and ``input_delay`` you can use to
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fine tune kitty's performance vs CPU usage profile. The CPU usage of kitty +
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X when scrolling in less is now significantly better than most (all?) other
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terminals. See https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty#performance
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- Hovering over URLs with the mouse now underlines them to indicate they
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can be clicked. Hold down Ctrl+Shift while clicking to open the URL.
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- Selection using the mouse is now more intelligent. It does not add
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blank cells (i.e. cells that have no content) after the end of text in a
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line to the selection.
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- The block cursor in now fully opaque but renders the character under it in
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the background color, for enhanced visibility.
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- Allow combining multiple independent actions into a single shortcut
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- Add a new shortcut to pass the current selection to an external program
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- Allow creating shortcuts to open new windows running arbitrary commands. You
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can also pass the current selection to the command as an arguments and the
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contents of the screen + scrollback buffer as stdin to the command.
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