Kitty: How to I install/load/configure the xterm-kitty file?

[tonnydourado]

I'm getting the Error opening terminal: xterm-kitty. message when trying to run htop with sudo. This issue says I should "install xterm-kitty terminfo system-wide", but there's not explanation there, or anywhere else in the docs, about how exactly is this done, and I think I'm googling it wrong, cos' I haven't been able to figure it out.

So, maybe it could be add to the F.A.Q?

By the way: I'm on Xubuntu 18.04. And htop and other ncurse programs (I tried mc and vim) work fine without sudo.

[tonnydourado]

Ok, found a solution: I have a config file on sudoers.d for htop, so I just add a line to forward the TERMINFO environment variable, like this: Defaults env_keep += "TERMINFO".

I'll leave this open in case someone wanna add this to the F.A.Q., but otherwise, feel free to close it.

And thanks for this project, seems quite cool and I look forward to trying it out more =)

[kovidgoyal]

It is already in the FAQ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq.html#keys-such-as-arrow-keys-backspace-delete-home-end-etc-do-not-work-when-using-su-or-sudo

[tonnydourado]

My bad! Thanks for the link, has some extra stuff I'll look into =)

[tomjakubowski]

I hope you won't mind if I inline another relevant and _very_ helpful bit from just above what you linked, in case someone else stumbles here:

You can ssh in using the following command which will automatically copy the terminfo files to the server

kitty +kitten ssh myserver

(Saved me from writing a script to do that!)