Name

       kitten-query-terminal - Query the terminal for various capabilities

Overview

       This kitten is used to query kitty from terminal programs about version, values of various
       runtime options controlling its features, etc.

       The querying is done using the (semi) standard  XTGETTCAP  escape  sequence  pioneered  by
       xterm,  so it works over SSH as well. The downside is that it is slow, since it requires a
       roundtrip to the terminal emulator and back.

       If you want to do some of the same querying in your terminal program without depending  on
       the  kitten,  you  can  do  so, by processing the same escape codes.  Search this page for
       XTGETTCAP to see the syntax for the escape code and read the source of this kitten to find
       the values of the keys for the various queries.

Source code for query_terminal

       The source code for this kitten is available on GitHub.

Command line interface

          kitty +kitten query_terminal [options] [query1 query2 ...]

       Query the terminal this kitten is run in for various capabilities. This sends escape codes
       to the terminal and based on its response prints out data  about  supported  capabilities.
       Note  that  this  is  a  blocking  operation, since it has to wait for a response from the
       terminal. You can control the maximum wait time via the --wait-for option.

       The output is lines of the form:

          query: data

       If a particular query is unsupported by the running kitty version, the data will be blank.

       Note that when calling this from another program, be very careful not to perform  any  I/O
       on the terminal device until this kitten exits.

       Available queries are:

       name:  Terminal name (e.g. xterm-kitty)

       version:
              Terminal version (e.g. 0.32.2)

       allow_hyperlinks:
              The  config  option  allow_hyperlinks  in kitty.conf for allowing hyperlinks can be
              yes, no or ask

       font_family:
              The current font's PostScript name

       bold_font:
              The current bold font's PostScript name

       italic_font:
              The current italic font's PostScript name

       bold_italic_font:
              The current bold-italic font's PostScript name

       font_size:
              The current overall font size (individual windows can  have  different  per  window
              font sizes)

       clipboard_control:
              The config option clipboard_control in kitty.conf for allowing reads/writes to/from
              the clipboard

   Options
       --wait-for <WAIT_FOR>
              The amount of time (in seconds) to wait for a response  from  the  terminal,  after
              querying it.  Default: 10

Author

       Kovid Goyal

Copyright

       2024, Kovid Goyal