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kovidgoyal / kitty

Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
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macOS: Kitty opened from a file explorer only opens in new window, rather than new tab #7335

Closed nestedbuilder closed 6 months ago

nestedbuilder commented 6 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When opening kitty from a macOS file explorer, it always opens a new WINDOW (rather than a preferred new TAB). File explorers I've tested so far are QSpace Pro, and "Folders" (from the app store). With these 2 explorers, opening in the default Terminal.app does open new tabs for it. Which leads me to believe this is a terminal emulator specific issue/preference. But either I can't find a pre-existing preference for this, or it doesn't exist.

Describe the solution you'd like When opening kitty from an EXTERNAL app like a file explorer, I want some kind of preference (such as in kitty.conf) to enable force opening a new TAB by default (rather than opening a new window).

Describe alternatives you've considered N/A

Additional context N/A

kovidgoyal commented 6 months ago

kitty has no way of knowing what you are opening it FROM. If you want to open new tabs/windows/whatever in an existing kitty instance, you use the remote control feature: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control/ configure your file explorers to calla script that runs the remote control command.