A Complete Tutorial for Kitty to Fish with vifm

Jake Jing
2 min readJul 22, 2020

A good terminal tool can speed up your workflow, and make your life much easier. Here I give a complete tutorial of installing the kitty terminal, and configuring the fish shell and vifm manager on mac.

  1. kitty

(1) install kitty on mac

>> curl -L https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin

(2) set kitty as the default terminal tool

To set kitty as the default application, you need to install a plug-in called “RCDefaultApp.prefPane”. You can download it from my github repository.

>> git clone https://github.com/JakeJing/kittyconfig.git
>> sudo mv kittyconfig/RCDefaultApp.prefPane /Library/PreferencePanes/

This will add an icon of “default apps” in your system preferences, and allow you to set the default terminal tools in this way (system preferences — default Apps — click the “default Apps” — URLS — x-man-page — set the default application as “kitty”).

(3) add shortcut (shift-cmd-1) to open a new kitty terminal window

You can also create a keyboard shortcut to open a new terminal window in the current folder by setting System Preferences — Keyboard — Shortcuts — Services — New kitty wondow here. I am using the keybinding (shift-cmd-1) for open a…

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