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kitty.conf
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.. highlight:: conf
.. only:: man
Overview
--------------
|kitty| is highly customizable, everything from keyboard shortcuts, to rendering
frames-per-second. See below for an overview of all customization possibilities.
You can open the config file within kitty by pressing :sc:`edit_config_file`
(:kbd:`⌘+,` on macOS). A :file:`kitty.conf` with commented default
configurations and descriptions will be created if the file does not exist.
You can reload the config file within kitty by pressing :sc:`reload_config_file`
(:kbd:`⌃+⌘+,` on macOS) or sending kitty the ``SIGUSR1`` signal.
You can also display the current configuration by pressing :sc:`debug_config`
(:kbd:`⌥+⌘+,` on macOS).
.. _confloc:
|kitty| looks for a config file in the OS config directories (usually
:file:`~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf`) but you can pass a specific path via the
:option:`kitty --config` option or use the :envvar:`KITTY_CONFIG_DIRECTORY`
environment variable. See :option:`kitty --config` for full details.
Comments can be added to the config file as lines starting with the ``#``
character. This works only if the ``#`` character is the first character in the
line.
Lines can be split by starting the next line with the ``\`` character.
All leading whitespace and the ``\`` character are removed.
.. _include:
You can include secondary config files via the :code:`include` directive. If
you use a relative path for :code:`include`, it is resolved with respect to the
location of the current config file. Note that environment variables are
expanded, so :code:`${USER}.conf` becomes :file:`name.conf` if
:code:`USER=name`. A special environment variable :envvar:`KITTY_OS` is available,
to detect the operating system. It is ``linux``, ``macos`` or ``bsd``.
Also, you can use :code:`globinclude` to include files
matching a shell glob pattern and :code:`envinclude` to include configuration
from environment variables. For example::
include other.conf
# Include *.conf files from all subdirs of kitty.d inside the kitty config dir
globinclude kitty.d/**/*.conf
# Include the *contents* of all env vars starting with KITTY_CONF_
envinclude KITTY_CONF_*
.. note:: Syntax highlighting for :file:`kitty.conf` in vim is available via
`vim-kitty <https://github.com/fladson/vim-kitty>`__.
.. include:: /generated/conf-kitty.rst
Sample kitty.conf
--------------------
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You can download a sample :file:`kitty.conf` file with all default settings
and comments describing each setting by clicking: :download:`sample
kitty.conf </generated/conf/kitty.conf>`.
.. only:: man
You can edit a fully commented sample kitty.conf by pressing the
:sc:`edit_config_file` shortcut in kitty. This will generate a config file
with full documentation and all settings commented out. If you have a
pre-existing :file:`kitty.conf`, then that will be used instead, delete it to
see the sample file.
A default configuration file can also be generated by running::
kitty +runpy 'from kitty.config import *; print(commented_out_default_config())'
This will print the commented out default config file to :file:`STDOUT`.
All mappable actions
------------------------
See the :doc:`list of all the things you can make kitty can do </actions>`.
.. toctree::
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actions