[FR] support kitty to open in existing instance new tabs instead of new instance window

[truebit]

Summarize this feature

launch kitty in one instance new tab instead of new instance new windows

Why should this feature be included?

We would like to open kitty terminal in one instance instead of multiple instance windows

Additional information

kitty could be opened with single instance with -1 --instance-group xxx parameters.

[Ji4n1ng]

This is supported in v2.3.7.

[jqtmviyu]

• Bug: Still opening a new window.

• Version: Kitty 0.32.1 OpenInTerminal 2.3.7

• Reference Links:

--instance-group Used in combination with the kitty --single-instance option. All kitty invocations with the same kitty --instance-group will result in new windows being created in the first kitty instance within that group.

• My solution

1. add Kitty config

~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

allow_remote_control yes
listen_on unix:/tmp/kitty

2. add Automator.app

#!/bin/sh
exit=$(ls /tmp | grep '^kitty')

if [ $exit ]; then
  sock="unix:/tmp/$exit"
  /usr/local/bin/kitty @ --to $sock launch --type=tab --cwd $1 --no-response && open -a kitty
else
  open -a kitty --args $1
fi

[tim-hilde]

The core issue of the current workings is that opening a directory via the app results in a new kitty app instance. This results in two apps open. The tab thing is something unrelated to the problem.