Integrations with other tools

kitty provides extremely powerful interfaces such as Controlling kitty from scripts or the shell and Custom kittens and icat - Display images in the terminal that allow it to be integrated with other tools seamlessly.

Image and document viewers

Powered by kitty's The 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
mdcat
Display markdown files nicely formatted with images in the terminal
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.
koneko
browse images from the pixiv artist community directly in kitty
viu
view images in the terminal, similar to kitty's icat, however also supports displaying animated GIFs

System and data visualisation tools

neofetch
A command line system information tool that shows images using kitty's graphics protocol
matplotlib
show matplotlib plots directly in kitty
KittyTerminalImages.jl
show images from Julia directly in kitty
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)'
onefetch
a tool to fetch information about your git repositories
wttr
a tool to display weather information in your terminal with curl

Editor integration

kitty can be integrated into many different terminal editors to add features such a split windows, previews, REPLs etc.

kakoune
integrates with kitty to use native kitty windows for its windows/panels and REPLs.
vim-slime
uses kitty remote control for a Lisp REPL.
vim-kitty-navigator
allows you to navigate seamlessly between vim and kitty splits using a consistent set of hotkeys.
vim-test
allows easily running tests in a terminal window

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
reload keybindings
reload key bindings from kitty.conf without needing to restart kitty
kitti3
allow using kitty as a drop-down terminal under the i3 window manager
weechat-hints
URL hints kitten for WeeChat that works without having to use WeeChat's raw-mode.
glkitty
C library to draw OpenGL shaders in the terminal with a glgears demo