Kitty 0.50

woah, those custom shaders (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/custom-shaders/) are sick! ghostty is great, but it's missing that... spirit, that kitty seems to be bringing!

gz on the release

I recognized him name from Calibre: https://calibre-ebook.com/about

What a legend.

> Variable font support

Okay, that's pretty cool. How does it handle spacing though? Do the columns in ls/top/etc still line up?

I love Kitty. I've used it since discovering it in about 2019 and it strikes the right balance of things.

It's easy to customise, super fast, light on resources, available in my distro's package manager and while the author might be a bit prickly at times, he does a fantastic job leading the project and keeping things focused.

I'll give the new shaders a try but the animated cursor is probably busy enough for me already.

To someone uninformed, how does this compare to Ghostty?

Oh wow, I did not expect not only that many interesting changes, but also that many which seem actually specifically useful to me - very cool to read!

I love kitty, have used it for a long while now and pretty happy, except for that one thing about ssh xterm - but even that is mostly minor.

Really cool to see such active development of an already perfectly capable and working software.

Apparently RedHat killed X11 so Kovid could go re-implement it on top of VT220. Ugh.

Just a PSA for people who don't know and have a "normal" DPI monitor: bitmap fonts are intentionally not supported by Kitty.

Automated session restore might make me go back to Kitty from Ghostty.

Kitty is my go-to for the Linux desktop. I discovered it in an early stage and really liked it from the beginning. It’s great to see that the project continues to be developed so vigorously.

Nice. I love kitty. But somehow I just realized I'm stuck in 0.47 even though I'm on Fedora, it's like 6 months old. Excited to try the automated session restore.

> Restore after logout

Awesome. I built a janky version of this for myself but I’m glad it’s supported natively now.

Tbh the quick access terminal stuff in this release is what I wanted three years ago when I wrote my own wrapper

It doesn't work on Windows. What are your favorite Windows alternatives?

Looks fun

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