Class KittyGraphicsSupportDetector

Namespace

Terminal.Gui.Drawing

Assembly

Terminal.Gui.dll

Detects whether the active terminal supports the Kitty graphics protocol by inspecting well-known environment variables set by Kitty-compatible terminals.

public class KittyGraphicsSupportDetector

Inheritance

object

KittyGraphicsSupportDetector

Inherited Members

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ToString()

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

Remarks

Detection checks the following environment variables in order:

1. KITTY_WINDOW_ID — set by the Kitty terminal emulator.
2. TERM_PROGRAM equal to kitty or ghostty.

When support is confirmed, the detector attempts to derive the pixel-per-cell Resolution via ANSI window-size queries (the same fallback used by SixelSupportDetector).

Constructors

KittyGraphicsSupportDetector()

Creates a new instance of the KittyGraphicsSupportDetector class.

KittyGraphicsSupportDetector(IDriver)

Creates a new instance of the KittyGraphicsSupportDetector class bound to the specified driver (used for resolution queries).

Methods

Detect(Action<KittyGraphicsSupportResult>)

Detects Kitty graphics protocol support and invokes resultCallback with the result. When support is detected the detector also attempts to resolve Resolution via ANSI queries; if those are unavailable the default 10×20 resolution is used.