Padding between top of window (or bottom of window) and tab bar

[jsphnecclia]

Is there a way to configure a padding/margin between the top of the window and the tab bar (alternatively the bottom of the window and the tab bar, depending on the setting)?

[kovidgoyal]

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf.html#opt-kitty.window_margin_width

[jsphnecclia]

The tab bar ignores that setting. I mean space between the edge of the window and the tab bar, not the tab bar and the edge of the content of the window (i.e. the text).

[kovidgoyal]

Ah, in that case, no, there is no such setting.

[jsphnecclia]

Ah. Well do you have any idea where a beginner programmer would look to make that change (making the tab bar be affected by the window_margin_width)?

[kovidgoyal]

this will be fairly involved. The tab bar is actually a kitty screen.
Margins around it would need to be rendered in the border OpenGL shader,
and the positioning of the tab bar window would need to be adjusted.

[jsphnecclia]

Ah. Then could you point me to where the code for the set tab_bar_min_tabs option lies? And/Or the code for the tab bar in general?

[kovidgoyal]

tab_bar.py

[jsphnecclia]

Duh, of course. Thank you

[jsphnecclia]

How does one add a rc like set-background-opacity, set-window-title, etc? I thought it would be as simple as duplicating one file already in the rc folder, changing it, and then rebuilding -- but that doesn't seem to work. I get the error that the command is an unknown command

[kovidgoyal]

Adding a file to the RC folder is all you need to do. See the code in
rc/base.py for how they are loaded.

[jsphnecclia]

Thats what I thought, but I can't get even a simple duplicate command recognized. I copied the file detach_window.py to toggle_tab_bar.py, and changed only the name - but kitty @ toggle-tab-bar returns command not found. Here is my toggle_tab_bar.py (detach_window.py duplicate with only the name changed):

from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional, Union

from .base import (
    MATCH_TAB_OPTION, MATCH_WINDOW_OPTION, ArgsType, Boss, MatchError,
    PayloadGetType, PayloadType, RCOptions, RemoteCommand, ResponseType,
    Window
)

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from kitty.cli_stub import DetachWindowRCOptions as CLIOptions


class ToggleTabBar(RemoteCommand):

    '''
    match: Which window to detach
    target: Which tab to move the detached window to
    self: Boolean indicating whether to detach the window the command is run in
    '''

    short_desc = 'Detach a window and place it in a different/new tab'
    desc = (
        'Detach the specified window and either move it into a new tab, a new OS window'
        ' or add it to the specified tab. Use the special value :code:`new` for --target-tab'
        ' to move to a new tab. If no target tab is specified the window is moved to a new OS window.'
    )
    options_spec = MATCH_WINDOW_OPTION + '\n\n' + MATCH_TAB_OPTION.replace('--match -m', '--target-tab -t') + '''\n
--self
type=bool-set
If specified detach the window this command is run in, rather than the active window.
'''
    argspec = ''

    def message_to_kitty(self, global_opts: RCOptions, opts: 'CLIOptions', args: ArgsType) -> PayloadType:
        return {'match': opts.match, 'target': opts.target_tab, 'self': opts.self}

    def response_from_kitty(self, boss: Boss, window: Optional[Window], payload_get: PayloadGetType) -> ResponseType:
        windows = self.windows_for_match_payload(boss, window, payload_get)
        match = payload_get('target_tab')
        target_tab_id: Optional[Union[str, int]] = None
        newval: Union[str, int] = 'new'
        if match:
            if match == 'new':
                target_tab_id = newval
            else:
                tabs = tuple(boss.match_tabs(match))
                if not tabs:
                    raise MatchError(match, 'tabs')
                target_tab_id = tabs[0].id
        kwargs = {'target_os_window_id': newval} if target_tab_id is None else {'target_tab_id': target_tab_id}
        for window in windows:
            boss._move_window_to(window=window, **kwargs)


toggle_tab_bar = ToggleTabBar()

[kovidgoyal]

Works for me by adding the above to to the toggle_tab_bar.py. Are you sure you are running kitty from modified sources? Remember to invoke kitty as kitty/launcher/kitty

[jsphnecclia]

Strange. I added the above to toggle_tab_bar.py, and couldn't get it to run through either kitty/launcher/kitty or the compiled kitty.app... I guess I'll have to try a non-rc solution