Kitty 0.40: Update for terminal emulator brings variable font sizes
The Kitty terminal emulator supports multiple font sizes. The open source tool can be extended via a framework in Python.
The font selection in Kitty
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Version 0.40 of the open-source terminal emulator Kitty has been released. With this update, the tool now supports the parallel display of different font sizes. This means that terminal applications in Kitty can use smaller or larger fonts than the default. According to developer Kovid Goyal, this function is implemented in a backwards-compatible manner. This means that programs that only use one font size are not affected.
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Kitty is a terminal emulator written in C and Python with GPU acceleration and OpenGL rendering. It offers Wayland support and displays variable OpenType fonts, 24-bit colors and images. Kitty also allows tiling of Windows and tabs. Users can also enter Unicode characters using their name or hex code.
Kitty also has mouse support, which enables text to be handled similarly to a graphical application, such as double-clicking to select a word and triple-clicking to select a line. Users can customize Kitty via a configuration file. A separate framework can be used to create terminal applications, so-called kittens, in Python, which extend the functionality of the terminal emulator.
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The update includes further adjustments to the display of fonts and colors, as well as bug fixes for Wayland and the macOS version. All changes to Kitty are listed in the changelog on the developer website. The terminal emulator is available for macOS, Linux, and some BSD distributions. The AI-supported terminal Warp was recently released for Windows users.
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