Name

       kitten-panel  -  Use  a  command  line program to draw a GPU accelerated panel on your X11
       desktop

Overview

       You can use this kitten to draw a GPU accelerated panel on the edge of your  screen,  that
       shows the output from an arbitrary terminal program.

       It  is  useful  for  showing  status  information  or  notifications on your desktop using
       terminal programs instead of GUI toolkits.
         Screenshot, showing a sample panel (images not supported)

       The screenshot above shows a sample panel that displays the  current  desktop  and  window
       title  as  well  as  miscellaneous  system information such as network activity, CPU load,
       date/time, etc.

       NOTE:
          This kitten currently only works on X11 desktops

       Using this kitten is simple, for example:

          kitty +kitten panel sh -c 'printf "\n\n\nHello, world."; sleep 5s'

       This will show Hello, world. at the top edge of your screen for  five  seconds.  Here  the
       terminal  program  we  are running is sh with a script to print out Hello, world!. You can
       make the terminal program as complex as you like, as demonstrated in the screenshot above.

Source code for panel

       The source code for this kitten is available on GitHub.

Command line interface

          kitty +kitten panel [options] program-to-run

       Use a command line program to draw a GPU accelerated panel on your X11 desktop

   Options
       --lines <LINES>
              The number of lines shown in the panel  (the  height  of  the  panel).  Applies  to
              horizontal panels.  Default: 1

       --columns <COLUMNS>
              The  number  of  columns  shown  in  the panel (the width of the panel). Applies to
              vertical panels.  Default: 20

       --edge <EDGE>
              Which edge of the screen to place the panel on.  Note  that  some  window  managers
              (such  as  i3)  do  not support placing docked windows on the left and right edges.
              Default: top Choices: bottom, left, right, top

       --config <CONFIG>, -c <CONFIG>
              Path to config file to use for kitty when drawing the panel.

       --override <OVERRIDE>, -o <OVERRIDE>
              Override individual kitty configuration options, can be specified  multiple  times.
              Syntax: name=value. For example: kitty +kitten panel -o font_size=20

       --class <CLS>
              Set the class part of the WM_CLASS window property. On Wayland, it sets the app id.
              Default: kitty-panel

       --name <NAME>
              Set the name part of the WM_CLASS property (defaults to using the value from  kitty
              --class)

Author

       Kovid Goyal

Copyright

       2024, Kovid Goyal