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## Previews

If you have followed the [installation](#installation) instructions and cloned
the entire repo, you have two options to try a theme:
the entire repo, you have three options to try a theme:

1. If you have enabled remote control in *kitty* you can run this command:
1. You can open the kitty shell (`ctrl+shift+escape`) and run this command:

```bash
set-colors -a "~/.config/kitty/kitty-themes/themes/AdventureTime.conf"
```

2. If you have enabled remote control in *kitty* you can run this command:

```bash
kitty @ set-colors -a "~/.config/kitty/kitty-themes/themes/AdventureTime.conf"
```

2. Otherwise you can start another instance of kitty and specify another config
3. Otherwise you can start another instance of kitty and specify another config
file to read from, this will cause *kitty* to read both its normal config
file and the specified one:

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