KiTTY/docs/pages/Portability.md

## Portability By default, KiTTY uses the Windows registry database to save its configuration (sessions, host keys, parameters). It's possible to save it into a tree directories structure and to avoid writing anything into the registry.

To do that you just have to create a file called kitty.ini in the same directory where you put KiTTY binary, and add these two lines:

[KiTTY]
savemode=dir

At the very first use, it is possible to copy all the configuration from the registry for users who already created sessions with normal KiTTY mode. You just have to run the software on the command line with the parameter -convert-dir:

kitty.exe -convert-dir

This option will create 6 sub-directories:

• Commands
• Folders
• Launcher
• Sessions
• Sessions_Commands
• SshHostKeys

containing all the configuration.

Unlike the registry (classic) mode, it is possible to have several saved sessions with the same name, but in different folders. So that, in order to start a session with command-line option (-load) it is necessary to specify the folder where the session file is located with the -folder option.

kitty.exe -folder SomeFolder/SomeSubFolder -load SessionName

By default any filename can contains session settings. It is possible to define a specific extention for these files:

[KiTTY]
fileextension=.ktx