Issues

• Remote control on Windows: remaining work after #59 (AF_UNIX/named pipe transport, elevation, WSL2, docs)

  area:ipc-remote-controlarea:securitywindows
  fhaze/kitsu#311 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 22, 2026

• Make the bundled Mesa llvmpipe fallback an optional installer component / separate download

  area:packaging-ci-qualityarea:rendering-fontswindows
  fhaze/kitsu#310 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 22, 2026

• [Windows audit 230] ConPTY registry is keyed by CRT fd number, so a master closed outside kitty_win32_close() goes stale and captures the next pty that reuses the fd

  area:pty-processesneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#279 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 228] ~20 #ifndef _WIN32 guards around POSIX includes in shared C files

  area:packaging-ci-qualityneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#278 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 227] zsh ZDOTDIR probe spawns a console process from the GUI thread without CREATE_NO_WINDOW

  area:shells-terminfoneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#277 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 226] termios/console emulation is partial (no read timeout, O_NONBLOCK ignored, text-mode fd, writes to CONIN$)

  area:pty-processesneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#276 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 225] slangc fingerprint can be computed for a different slangc.exe on PATH than the bundled one

  area:rendering-fontsneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#275 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 224] save_as_session --relocatable crashes across drives; close_session path detection uses '/'

  area:paths-encodingneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#274 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 223] pread/pwrite emulation moves the file pointer

  area:paths-encodingneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#273 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 222] posix_memalign on Windows needs _aligned_free; new upstream posix_memalign+free pairs would corrupt the heap

  area:packaging-ci-qualityneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#272 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 221] mmap shim lazily initializes its CRITICAL_SECTION without synchronization; offset alignment differs from POSIX

  area:pty-processesneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#271 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 220] kitty to kitsu branding spread through upstream files; fork docs disagree with behaviour

  area:packaging-ci-qualityneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#270 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 219] gpu_renderer_string() can pass NULL to PyUnicode_FromString when no GL context is current

  area:rendering-fontsneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#269 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 218] focus_follows_mouse could optionally focus kitty OS windows on Windows

  area:window-desktopneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#268 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 217] choose-fonts lists Windows symbol fonts like Marlett as monospace families

  area:rendering-fontsneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#267 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 216] choose-files cannot browse other drives

  area:kittens-goneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#266 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 215] bash integration runs several command substitutions per prompt, slow under Cygwin's emulated fork

  area:shells-terminfoneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#265 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 214] win is not accepted as a modifier name and Win-key shortcuts are mostly unusable

  area:input-clipboard-dndneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#264 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 213] __atexit__ cleanup worker dies when a kitten's ConPTY closes, leaving temp directories

  area:kittens-goneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#263 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 212] Windows tests, stubs and changelog entries are added where upstream appends, giving recurring conflicts

  area:packaging-ci-qualityneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#262 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 211] Window icon takes the X11 path: the multi-resolution .ico is replaced by a 128px PNG; larger custom icons rejected

  area:window-desktopneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#261 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 210] WSL kittens built as 'standalone', so kitten update-self in WSL swaps in upstream's binary

  area:packaging-ci-qualityneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#260 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 209] WSL kitten setup runs elevated as the admin account in all-users installs

  area:packaging-ci-qualityneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#259 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 208] Vendored go-shm via replace directives: duplicate copies, misleading version metadata, untested

  area:packaging-ci-qualityneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#258 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026

• [Windows audit 207] Upstream functions moved into *_unix.go files lose git rename tracking

  area:packaging-ci-qualityneeds-triagepriority:P3windowswindows-audit
  fhaze/kitsu#257 · Filter by author fhaze opened on Oct 21, 2026