[blinkingled]

Kitty is good but the only issue I have is the use of custom terminfo xterm-kitty. This means things break when ssh’ing to older Linux until you copy the terminfo manually. On BSDs it doesn’t work as there is no terminfo support.

[JdeBP]

It really should not be "xterm-" anything. This is another misnomer.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/TERM.xml#MIS-...

* https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#other_vers...

The correct terminal type, per Dickey terminfo, is "kitty". (The PuTTY variant KiTTY is apparently also "putty".) And the terminfo database lends itself both to copying individual records and to having extra records in one's home directory.

* https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.ti.html#tic-ki...

* https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.ti.html#tic-pu...

[blinkingled]

Thanks for the insight :) I have always had a bit of 'why do I gotta know that' thing going on with terminfo, console and friends - this is making me want to dig a bit deeper!

[floatboth]

> On BSDs it doesn’t work as there is no terminfo support

ncurses from FreeBSD Ports is built with terminfo, but the ncurses from base uses termcap. Kind of a mess :)

Most application ports have USES=ncurses without arguments, which means they will prefer the ports ncurses — if it's installed at build time. Official binary packages are built without it installed of course. So rebuilding the ncurses apps you care about would make them use terminfo.

Also you can convert terminfo to termcap: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/infotocap.1m.html

[blinkingled]

Awesome! I will try infotocap and rebuild ncurses from ports along with any other apps and see. Thanks.

[Strum355]

Doing `export TERM=xterm` has worked consistently for me

[blinkingled]

Yep it works for the most part - I remember having weird issues once in a while - not sure if it was build from git kitty that I was using or some TERM compatibility thing.

[JdeBP]

It's pretty much always the case in such situations that the terminal emulator is not XTerm and the "xterm" entry in termcap/terminfo simply does not describe it.