Kitty (terminal) for macOS Initial motivation was theming (catppuccin) ... but declarative configuration, especially keybinding customisability is superb so I spent a time tinkering. Tmux-like pane (window in kitty) navigation is usefull in macOS, due to difficulity on using tiling window manager.

Changes

3 changed files (+69/-2)

• flake.nix
  • @@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ };
    webdev = ./webdev; - macos = ./macos; + macos = import ./macos { + inherit catppuccinTheme; + }; }; mkHomeConfiguration = {
• macos/default.nix
  • @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
    # macOS specific configurations. - { + {catppuccinTheme}: { imports = [ ./os-update-workaround.nix + (import ./kitty.nix {inherit catppuccinTheme;}) ]; }
• macos/kitty.nix (new)
  • @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
    + {catppuccinTheme}: { + pkgs, + lib, + ... + }: { + programs = let + # Convert the input string's first character to upper case. + # Example: "foo" -> "Foo" + toCapital = with lib; + str: let + len = builtins.stringLength str; + head = strings.toUpper (builtins.substring 0 1 str); + tail = builtins.substring 1 (len - 1) str; + in + head + tail; + in { + # The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator + # https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ + kitty = { + enable = true; + + font = { + name = "Dank Mono"; + size = 16; + }; + + # Kitty's customisability is top-notch. + keybindings = { + "kitty_mod+t" = "new_tab_with_cwd"; + "kitty_mod+n" = "new_window_with_cwd"; + + "kitty_mod+r" = "start_resizing_window"; + "kitty_mod+s" = "swap_with_window"; + "kitty_mod+f" = "focus_visible_window"; + + "kitty_mod+k" = "neighboring_window top"; + "kitty_mod+h" = "neighboring_window left"; + "kitty_mod+j" = "neighboring_window down"; + "kitty_mod+l" = "neighboring_window right"; + + "kitty_mod+a" = "next_layout"; + }; + + settings = { + # Background + background_opacity = "0.9"; + + # Layouts + enabled_layouts = "fat,tall,grid,horizontal,vertical,splits"; + + # Tabs + tab_bar_edge = "top"; + tab_bar_style = "powerline"; + }; + + shellIntegration = { + enableBashIntegration = true; + enableZshIntegration = true; + }; + + theme = "Catppuccin-${toCapital catppuccinTheme}"; + }; + }; + }