kitty `sudo htop` cannot open terminal

[dqian96]

When using Kitty, I cannot open htop with superuser privileges. I get the error Error opening terminal: xterm-kitty.. I discovered that the reason behind this is that $TERMINFO is not set for sudo. Is there a way to automatically forward this for sudo? (-E does not forward terminfo because of security concerns).

Kitty Version: 0.12.2
OS: MacOS 10.13.6
Also using tmux, although this issue should be independent of it.

[max-baz]

Why not install xterm-kitty terminfo system-wide? 😉

[kovidgoyal]

Or you can add TERMINFO to the sudo config file as a forwarded variable.