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Re:Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator by floatboth on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @06:37AM (#22683349)
> 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

Re:Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator by blinkingled on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @06:41AM (#22683366)
Awesome! I will try infotocap and rebuild ncurses from ports along with any other apps and see. Thanks.