I'm not sure why this is happening but when comparing htop in MATE terminal(gnome-terminal) and kitty, kitty is missing some text. I think the text has simply become the same color as the background because the text shows up when I highlight a row in htop. See screenshot and WR_SYSC/RD_SYSC column (dark gray text). I'm using the default kitty terminal color configuration (haven't changed anything). Why might this be happening?

That's a bug in htop change the color scheme in htop to "broken gray" and it will be fine. https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/35
Okay~ thank you
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That's a bug in htop change the color scheme in htop to "broken gray" and it will be fine. https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/35