Hi Have you tried this (specifically the last part about generating a termcap description and appending to the termcap database)?
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq.html?highlight=termcap#i-get-errors-about-the-terminal-being-unknown-or-opening-the-terminal-failing-when-sshing-into-a-different-computer Cheers On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 03:51:26PM +0100, Björn Gohla wrote: > > hi all, > > i have the following problem with the kitty terminal emulator: > > ---- > 15:43:39 bgohla@titanic ~ $ doas pkg_add hello > doas ([email protected]) password: > failed termcap lookup on xterm-kitty at > /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/ProgressMeter/Term.pm line 113. > 15:44:02 bgohla@titanic ~ $ echo $TERM > xterm-kitty > 15:44:17 bgohla@titanic ~ $ > ---- > > it seems the problem is that there is no entry for xterm-kitty in > /etc/termcap. the above pkg_add invocation works when i set TERM=xterm . > > i suppose one could just add a termcap entry that redirects to > xterm. > > would this be a patch in the kitty port, or does this require a change > to the base system? > > -- > cheers, > björn > -- Karl Pettersson
