Fix changing kitty's colors. Kitty must be run with -1 or --single-instance to affect all open kitty windows. Only works when wal is run from kitty.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pywal/reload.py b/pywal/reload.py
index de96090..720b0f4 100644
--- a/pywal/reload.py
+++ b/pywal/reload.py
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ def bspwm():
 
 def kitty():
     """ Reload kitty colors. """
-    if shutil.which("kitty") and util.get_pid("kitty"):
-        util.disown(["kitty", "@", "set-colors", "--all"])
+    if shutil.which("kitty") and util.get_pid("kitty") and os.getenv('TERM') == 'xterm-kitty':
+        subprocess.call(["kitty", "@", "set-colors", "--all", os.path.join(CACHE_DIR, "colors-kitty.conf")])
 
 
 def polybar():
diff --git a/pywal/templates/colors-kitty.conf b/pywal/templates/colors-kitty.conf
index f744418..c9324e0 100644
--- a/pywal/templates/colors-kitty.conf
+++ b/pywal/templates/colors-kitty.conf
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ foreground   {foreground}
 background   {background}
 cursor       {cursor}
 
+active_tab_foreground     {foreground}
+active_tab_background     {background}
+inactive_tab_foreground   {background}
+inactive_tab_background   {foreground}
+
 color0       {color0}
 color8       {color8}
 color1       {color1}