kitty¶
The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
- Uses GPU and SIMD vector CPU instructions for best in class 
- Uses threaded rendering for absolutely minimal latency 
- Performance tradeoffs can be tuned 
- Graphics, with images and animations 
- Ligatures, emoji with - per glyph font substitutionand variable fonts and font features
- Control from scripts or the shell 
- Extend with kittens using the Python language 
- Use startup sessions to specify working environments 
- Programmable tabs, splits and multiple layouts to manage windows 
- Browse the entire history or the - output from the last commandcomfortably in pagers and editors
- Edit or download remote files in an existing SSH session 
- Linux 
- macOS 
- Various BSDs 
Pioneered various extensions to move the entire terminal ecosystem forward
To get started see Quickstart.