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Update Linux build VM to Ubuntu 22
Allows using up to date simde and newer compilers for small performance
improvements. Ubuntu 18 and 20 are EOL and Ubuntu 22 was released over four
years ago.

This will also hopefully allow us to build slang for the upcoming
transition to slang based shaders.
2026-06-23 08:57:24 +05:30
.github Bump the actions group with 2 updates 2026-06-15 03:45:12 +00:00
3rdparty ... 2024-07-14 12:34:24 +05:30
bypy Update Linux build VM to Ubuntu 22 2026-06-23 08:57:24 +05:30
docs Update Linux build VM to Ubuntu 22 2026-06-23 08:57:24 +05:30
gen graphics: make N a transient usage-hints bitmask 2026-06-19 13:22:01 +09:00
glad More robust detection of support for GL_FRAMEBUFFER_SRGB 2025-08-11 09:13:49 +05:30
glfw Merge branch 'fix-wayland-start-drag-silently-ignored' of https://github.com/ttys3/kitty 2026-06-18 10:37:36 +05:30
kittens fix(choose-fonts): guard preview rendering against partial terminal color query 2026-06-10 02:18:18 -07:00
kitty Cleanup previous PR 2026-06-21 13:23:58 +05:30
kitty_tests Merge branch 'bvolpato/vertical-tab-bar-side' of https://github.com/bvolpato/kitty 2026-06-21 13:18:10 +05:30
logo macOS: Switch to Tahoe style application icon 2026-04-18 13:28:22 +05:30
shell-integration Avoid shell quoting in ssh login fallback 2026-05-19 23:14:08 +05:00
terminfo Update Se terminfo entry to reset cursor to configured default 2026-04-26 17:50:16 -05:00
tools Merge branch 'feat/10090-graphics-cache-dir' of https://github.com/Mekann2904/kitty 2026-06-19 10:16:10 +05:30
.editorconfig Fix indentation in codeql yml file 2025-04-14 10:21:10 +05:30
.gitattributes Move parsing of colors fully into C 2025-12-31 14:21:45 +05:30
.gitignore Add XI2 smooth scrolling support for X11 backend 2026-01-09 17:13:24 +05:30
__main__.py Make shebangs consistent 2023-11-11 08:32:05 +05:30
benchmark.py Make mypy 1.16 happy 2025-05-30 10:06:38 +05:30
Brewfile See if dropping pkgconf fixes CI build 2024-11-23 19:48:05 +05:30
build-terminfo Make the terminfo database available in the compiled module 2024-03-21 10:16:50 +05:30
CHANGELOG.rst Use new URL scheme and define the kitty website centrally as much as possible 2021-07-27 09:03:11 +05:30
CONTRIBUTING.md Fix misspellings 2023-06-14 03:39:53 +06:00
count-lines-of-code Update the list of nerd font names when updating other unicode data as well 2025-05-21 13:19:27 +05:30
dev.sh Update docs for new develop builds 2023-07-29 14:16:25 +05:30
embeds.go Code to serialize/unserialize loaded images 2025-10-07 17:25:47 +05:30
go.mod Bump github.com/nwaples/rardecode/v2 in the all-go-deps group 2026-06-22 03:43:04 +00:00
go.sum Bump github.com/nwaples/rardecode/v2 in the all-go-deps group 2026-06-22 03:43:04 +00:00
INSTALL.md Format the INSTALL.md links 2021-09-23 20:31:13 +05:30
key_encoding.json Add JSON definition of key encoding 2018-02-07 14:39:11 +05:30
LICENSE Update link 2021-09-28 14:23:49 +05:30
Makefile Update docs for new develop builds 2023-07-29 14:16:25 +05:30
publish.py Fix pkill invocation 2026-02-24 07:47:22 +05:30
pyproject.toml Update minimum python to 3.11 from 3.10 2026-04-19 21:41:58 +05:30
README.asciidoc Update some docs 2025-10-07 20:20:19 +05:30
rsync-and-build.sh Slightly improve rsync script 2025-05-09 15:33:22 +05:30
SECURITY.md ... 2025-09-14 21:31:43 +05:30
session.vim Switch to LSP for mypy 2024-03-28 19:36:07 +05:30
setup.py macOS: Switch to Tahoe style application icon 2026-04-18 13:28:22 +05:30
shell.nix Update shell.nix 2026-03-23 17:26:53 -04:00
staticcheck.conf configure staticcheck 2022-11-14 15:42:01 +05:30
test.py Dont change the env for go tests 2022-11-14 15:41:53 +05:30
update-on-ox Allow turning off stripping in update-on-ox 2024-08-18 15:30:38 +05:30

= kitty - the fast, feature-rich, cross-platform, GPU based terminal

If you live in the terminal, *kitty* is made for **you**!

See https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/[the kitty website].

image:https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/workflows/CI/badge.svg["Build status", link="https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/actions?query=workflow%3ACI"]

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/[Frequently Asked Questions]

To ask other questions about kitty usage, use either the https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/[discussions on GitHub] or the
https://www.reddit.com/r/KittyTerminal[Reddit community]

Packaging status in various repositories:

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