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Kitty does not run on Windows.

I think the confusion is due to the putty fork that's also called kitty.

wezterm is actually cross-platform and has great support for wsl2 as well. It also comes with a mux component which moves the mux stuff to your local machine and eliminating a lot of issues with running tmux/screen.

I looked into alacritty and kitty as well. Aside from being the best terminal for my needs, wezterm's developer is also pretty friendly and open to issues/PRs and is very responsive. I like the tool and the project so much that I help out with little things like packaging whenever I can.

Wezterm (kitty too) is really a great piece of software, I use terminals 12 hours a day, but I did not spent a lot of time configure them, but this article is inspirational.

PS: kitty developer is the same developer of calibre, another beautiful software.

> wezterm's developer is also pretty friendly and open to issues/PRs and is very responsive.

Really? His attitude in the issues page was the main reason I left wezterm for alternatives.

Can you provide an example? I would be very suprised if we're talking about the same guy.

Thanks for this reminder, I had peeked at wezterm a month or so ago and it sounded slick, but I was pretty happy with my iTerm+tmux setup. Just got a chance to play with wezterm a bit, and I think it's going to be my new term, because:

  - The ssh mux seems to work at least as well as mosh+tmux.
  - It has decent keyboard Copy/QuickSelect/Search (I liked tmuxes, but didn't get that at my native terminal).
  - Runs on MacOS and Linux, my work and home environments.

Yes wez's mux is pretty nice. It will probably get better too. I think it has some mosh-like functionality too. I like that my terminal behaves the same locally and running as muxed domain on a remote server. One less set of shortcuts to remember. If it's not clean I mean for operations like copy/paste yes, but also starting a new tab (which will open a tab in that domain), splitting the current view etc.

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