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Kitty alternative icon

Whiskers

An alternative application icon for Kitty terminal emulator. Works best if little flat icons and whiskers on kittens are a few of your favorite things. JetBrains Mono font was used for angle brackets.

Installation

Linux

  1. Download whiskers_256x256.png to your preferred icons path .e.g ~/.icons or ~/.local/share/icons.
  2. Edit your ~/.local/share/applications/kitty.desktop file and set the Icon parameter to the full absolute path to the whiskers_256x256.png icon e.g. /home/igrmk/.icons/whiskers_256x256.png.

macOS

See the official FAQ: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/#i-do-not-like-the-kitty-icon

Development

You need mac to build icons. Install inkscape and exiftool. Then run build.sh script.

Other alternatives

  • https://github.com/k0nserv/kitty-icon
  • https://github.com/DinkDonk/kitty-icon
  • https://github.com/hristost/kitty-alternative-icon