Never display a tab bar.

[AmokHuginnsson]

Hello.

kitty is a very nice terminal emulator, that being said,
I would like to request a new feature for it.

I would like to get an ability to tell kitty to never display a tab bar.
Maybe new setting for tab_bar_style, something like

tab_bar_style = none

or

tab_bar_style = hidden

What do you think?

[max-baz]

So you are actually using tabs, but you don't want to see that you have multiple tabs?

[AmokHuginnsson]

Yes. Exactly. I want maximal terminal estate. I remember which tabs are open and what is their content.

[nogerine]

You can:

1. Open kitty/tab_bar.py
2. Add return at line 135

def layout(self):
    return
    central, tab_bar, vw, vh, cell_width, cell_height = viewport_for_window(self.os_window_id)
    ...

[AmokHuginnsson]

@aIRisius I want to do it through configuration. Not to patch the code on every machine I use.

But thank you. I can use this information to prepare patch post it here.

[erf]

You can set the following in kitty.conf:

tab_bar_style              separator                                                          
tab_separator              " "

and then set the bash terminal title empty like this:

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0; \007"'

and your tabs won't show

[AmokHuginnsson]

@erf That would wast one line of available space which is precisely what I want to avoid.