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this is a (...) tutorial(?) of sorts on how to make a "kitty terminal mode" for your linux desktop. I had no particular reason to do this. This also works for launching something like ES-DE like an actual desktop because it puts it in its on gamescope session.
prerequisites: // these should all be available via your distribution's package manager
1 create a file called kitty-session
touch kitty-session
and put this inside:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
gamescope -- kitty --start-as=fullscreen
2 create the session link:
touch kitty.desktop
and fill it with:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Kitty (gamescope)
Comment=Launch Kitty within Gamescope
Exec=kitty-session
Type=Application
DesktopNames=gamescope
3 change ownership of both files to root with chown
sudo chown root:root kitty-session kitty.desktop
4 handling kitty-session
make kitty-session executable:
sudo chmod +x kitty-session
and copy kitty-session into place
sudo cp kitty-session /usr/bin/
5 copy kitty.desktop into place
sudo cp kitty.desktop /usr/share/wayland-sessions
log out and select KiittyDE from the session select menu