kitty

Stow package for ~/.config/kitty/. Kitty is the GPU-accelerated terminal — used here on macOS (/Applications/kitty.app, installed via the kitty.sh installer, not Homebrew).

Layout
Main config
Dracula theme
Diff colors
Fresh-machine setup

Layout

File	Stows to
`kitty/.config/kitty/kitty.conf`	`~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf`
`kitty/.config/kitty/dracula.conf`	`~/.config/kitty/dracula.conf`
`kitty/.config/kitty/diff.conf`	`~/.config/kitty/diff.conf`

Reload after editing: kitty @ load-config (needs allow_remote_control yes), or Cmd+Ctrl+, (macOS) / Ctrl+Shift+F5 (Linux).

Main config

kitty.conf pulls in the Dracula palette, sets the font, and tunes a handful of defaults. Sections:

Font — JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono is the patched build with Nerd Font glyphs (install via the font-jetbrains-mono-nerd-font cask, or grab from nerdfonts.com).

Quality of life

Setting	Why
`enable_audio_bell no` / `visual_bell_duration 0`	Silence the bell entirely
`confirm_os_window_close 0`	Don’t prompt when closing a window with a running process
`scrollback_lines 10000`	Bigger in-memory scrollback
`scrollback_pager_history_size 100`	100 MB disk-backed scrollback for the pager kitten
`repaint_delay 8` / `input_delay 2` / `sync_to_monitor yes`	Snappier rendering on Apple Silicon

macOS

Setting	Why
`macos_option_as_alt left`	Left-Option behaves as Alt so ⌥←/⌥→ word-jump works in shells
`macos_titlebar_color background`	Title bar adopts the bg color (no white strip)
`macos_quit_when_last_window_closed yes`	Quitting the last window quits the app

Remote control + shell integration

Setting	Why
`allow_remote_control yes`	Unlocks `kitty @ ls`, `kitty @ set-tab-title`, the ssh kitten, etc.
`listen_on unix:/tmp/kitty-{kitty_pid}`	Per-process control socket
`shell_integration enabled`	Click-to-move cursor, prompt marking, jump-by-prompt, etc.

Visual

Setting	Why
`window_padding_width 6`	Subtle gutter between text and window edge
`tab_bar_edge top`	Tabs on top, away from prompt output
`tab_bar_style powerline` + `tab_powerline_style slanted`	Curved powerline separators (uses JetBrainsMono Nerd Font glyphs)

Dracula theme

dracula.conf is the upstream palette from https://draculatheme.com/kitty, unmodified. It sets:

Foreground/background and the full ANSI palette (color0–color15)
Cursor, selection, URL underline
Tab bar foreground/background (active + inactive)
Split/window border colors
Mark colors (kitty’s scrollback marks feature)

Matches the rest of the dotfiles’ Dracula-ish palette ([[../tig/README.md]], [[../lazygit/README.md]]).

Diff colors

diff.conf styles kitty +kitten diff (kitty’s built-in side-by-side diff viewer) with the Dracula palette — green for added, red for removed, purple hunk separators, cyan search, yellow selection.

Invoke with kitty +kitten diff old new or alias it.

Fresh-machine setup

# kitty itself: NOT in Brewfile — installed standalone on macOS via
#   curl -L https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin
# On Debian: apt install kitty (or use the same installer).

stow kitty

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