Since Alacritty is unusable on Cinnamon (for me) I switched to Kitty.
Question1: Believe it or not I cannot find any real thread dedicated to kitty .conf samples. The closest thread that had kitty.conf file was a 2024 @UncleSpellbinder thread about Fastfetch. Brother can you spare a kitty.conf?
Question 2: Where the hell is the icon? Nothing shows up in Plank when I launch Kitty. I have right-click option to add to task bar but that fubar’d everything (all apps closed when minimized) so I -Rns then -S again.
I don’t know. I honestly only use kitty to show off my fastfetch config Other than that I use Alacritty. I have no issues using it with LXQT and plank-reloaded.
When you first open it…
Choose Kitty theme by typing kitten themes in the terminal.
Choose Kitty font by typing kitten choose-fonts (a Nerd font is preferable).
If you want to change the appearance, there is also the interactive theme selector kitten themes for a large choice of color schemes which are already included out of the box. Choosing a different color theme won’t compromise your kitty.conf file, there will be just an nested theme file imported within the configuration file.
I saw in some of the cfg files here and via links there’s a comment/uncommented line (#) called ‘include current.conf’ which seem to indicated a blending of them.
Is that what you mean by ‘nested’?
The MonoIndustrial theme was my favorite so I chose it in Kitty. Now have parts of @Noodly ‘s config in one config and then the other config. That’s 2.
I only want one config. So the moves I make inside of Kitty Terminal get farmed out to another conf file? and the moves I make outside of Kitty Terminal seem to be in kitty.config? And they are married if I uncomment that ‘include’ line?
Gotta wrap my head around this. edit: I have window size and font size etc in one and colors in the other. Alacritty world revolved around a single .toml file, whatever that is (config by another name it seems like), but it was centralized control and it opened in gedit,
Thanks for the additional info. I was at the kovidgoyal site earlier today and found it fascinating–comprehensive to be sure.
It creates a file called current-theme.conf when you use the kitten themes selecter, which links to kitty.conf which will now have some #commented lines. You shouldn’t need to make any manual amendments.
You can use kitten choose-fonts in a similar way.
edit:
That said, you can then go into the current-theme.conf and alter individual colours of a theme you have chosen. Just paste your hex codes, save and that’s it.
OK, that’s a little clearer why Kitty demands dual conf files. Like one is the Base and the other is Decoration is how I’m understanding this. I was worried they would not co-exist so I cut and paste font and font size from your conf into current conf.
Thanks for this info. I love my theme but not the red blinking cursor. So which conf file would I change edit: Change color in? Or does it matter? Or does one conf dominant over another?
