Name

kitten-@ - Control kitty remotely

Usage

Description

Control kitty by sending it commands. Set the allow_remote_control option in kitty.conf for this to work. When run without any sub-commands this will start an interactive shell to control kitty.

Commands

action

Run the specified mappable action. See:

close-tab

Close the specified tabs. See:

close-window

Close the specified windows. See:

create-marker

Create a marker that highlights specified text. See:

detach-tab

Detach the specified tabs and place them in a different/new OS window. See:

detach-window

Detach the specified windows and place them in a different/new tab. See:

disable-ligatures

Control ligature rendering. See:

env

Change environment variables seen by future children. See:

focus-tab

Focus the specified tab. See:

focus-window

Focus the specified window. See:

get-colors

Get terminal colors. See:

get-text

Get text from the specified window. See:

goto-layout

Set the window layout. See:

kitten

Run a kitten. See:

last-used-layout

Switch to the last used layout. See:

launch

Run an arbitrary process in a new window/tab. See:

load-config

(Re)load a config file. See:

ls

List tabs/windows. See:

new-window

Open new window. See:

remove-marker

Remove the currently set marker, if any.. See:

resize-os-window

Resize the specified OS Windows. See:

resize-window

Resize the specified windows. See:

scroll-window

Scroll the specified windows. See:

select-window

Visually select a window in the specified tab. See:

send-key

Send arbitrary key presses to the specified windows. See:

send-text

Send arbitrary text to specified windows. See:

set-background-image

Set the background image. See:

set-background-opacity

Set the background opacity. See:

set-colors

Set terminal colors. See:

set-enabled-layouts

Set the enabled layouts in tabs. See:

set-font-size

Set the font size in the active top-level OS window. See:

set-spacing

Set window paddings and margins. See:

set-tab-color

Change the color of the specified tabs in the tab bar. See:

set-tab-title

Set the tab title. See:

set-user-vars

Set user variables on a window. See:

set-window-logo

Set the window logo. See:

set-window-title

Set the window title. See:

signal-child

Send a signal to the foreground process in the specified windows. See:

Get help for an individual command by running:

Global options

--to

An address for the kitty instance to control. Corresponds to the address given to the kitty instance via the --listen-on option or the listen_on setting in kitty.conf. If not specified, the environment variable KITTY_LISTEN_ON is checked. If that is also not found, messages are sent to the controlling terminal for this process, i.e. they will only work if this process is run within a kitty window.

--password

A password to use when contacting kitty. This will cause kitty to ask the user for permission to perform the specified action, unless the password has been accepted before or is pre-configured in kitty.conf.

--password-file [=rc-pass]

A file from which to read the password. Trailing whitespace is ignored. Relative paths are resolved from the kitty configuration directory. Use - to read from STDIN. Used if no --password is supplied. Defaults to checking for the rc-pass file in the kitty configuration directory.

--password-env [=KITTY_RC_PASSWORD]

The name of an environment variable to read the password from. Used if no --password-file is supplied. Defaults to checking the environment variable KITTY_RC_PASSWORD.

--use-password [=if-available]

If no password is available, kitty will usually just send the remote control command without a password. This option can be used to force it to always or never use the supplied password.

Choices: if-available, always, never

Options

--help, -h

Show help for this command