Kitty: Kitty is ignoring my config on MacOS

[luisdavim]

I have my config in ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf and ~/Library/Preferences/kitty is a symbolic link to it but kitty ignores my configs.

The only way for it to load my configs is to start kitty from another terminal with /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/MacOS/kitty -c ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

[kovidgoyal]

I cannot replicate on my macOS machine, kitty reads the config from
~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

I suggest removing the symlink, it is not needed. And if that does not
work, use the kitty command line facility to pass the --config option
permanently, see the kitty FAQ for how to use this facility.

[luisdavim]

that didn't work for me

[magicalbanana]

This is the same for me. Any thoughts @kovidgoyal? I am OSX Mojave.

[asauray]

I have the same problem using the MacOS launcher. If I start Kitty from another terminal (including Kitty itself) the configuration is correctly applied.

[Luflosi]

Are there any messages in Console.app that could be related? You can filter the messages to only include the process kitty.

[asauray]

I solved it actually. There was a background kitty process that was running. I killed it and then the configuration was applied correctly.

[saurap]

I found out that I need to restart kitty application for the effect after changes to conf. Simply exiting and opening does not work.