Configuring must_draw_borders

[andmis]

In kitty/layout/base.py, there is the following line:

    must_draw_borders = False  # can be overridden to customize behavior from kittens

What I would like is for this to be True for every window I use -- I want the border always to be drawn, including in OS windows with only a single pane/terminal.

So far, I have tried using watchers, kittens, and editing the source code (changing False to True in that line of code, in a local clone of the kitty GitHub repo) and using KITTY_DEVELOP_FROM. I couldn't get watchers or kittens to work. Editing the source worked, except after a macOS upgrade suddenly kitty stopped launching until I turned off KITTY_DEVELOP_FROM. (I confirmed that the installed kitty version was the same as the commit checked-out in my clone of the repo.) So basically I think I have tried pretty hard to achieve this goal. I can achieve what I want by editing the source code, but I would prefer a more robust solution.

Any advice?

[kovidgoyal]

What's preventing you from getting watchers to work? If you run kitty from master or nightly you can create "global" watchers that run on every window, and those should do the trick pretty easily.

[andmis]

Thanks for the suggestion. I am not on the master/nightly builds -- I think I'll wait until that feature hits the main release version and try again.