$TERMINFO stuck on older version off kitty

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1

I‘ve installed kitty with home-manager on Mac and since the Installation the TERMINFO env var has been stuck on an older version. I‘m having some issues with kitty and I want to make sure this is not the cause.

/nix/store/5i58fs56nqr9d6qyzlmilqrhwv3ic5dj-kitty-0.39.1/Applications/kitty.app/Contents/Resources/kitty/terminfo/kitty.terminfo

Current installed kitty version:

/nix/store/71knarmz6b6344dvqd0m39bbvnviqrix-kitty-0.44.0/Applications/kitty.app/Contents/Resources/kitty/terminfo/kitty.terminfo

Is there a way to make this auto update?

2

Do you also use nix-darwin? And if so, do you use HM as a system module in nix-darwin or standalone? If the latter do you update both together or only HM?

3

I installed HM first and later installed nix-darwin so independent. I haven‘t really used nix-darwin yet, the config is basically empty, just system.stateVersion is set.

home-manager https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-25.11.tar.gz
nixpkgs nixpkgs-25.11-darwin release nixpkgs-darwin-25.11pre908392.a669fd57cfdf

4

Do you have environment.enableAllTerminfo in your darwin config, or any mention of fish? Can you maybe share your config?

5

environment.enableAllTerminfo no, fish also no

Ofc, but my darwin config is literally empty except system.stateVersion = 6.

HM-config on the other hand.

# kitty.nix
{ pkgs, config, lib, ... }:

let
  isDarwin = pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
  isLinux = pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux;
  bellSound = if isDarwin then
    "Error.aiff"
  else if isLinux then
    "Error.oga"
  else
    "Error.oga";
in

  
{
  programs.kitty = {
    enable = true;
    themeFile = "snazzy";
    extraConfig = ''
background_opacity 0.5
background_blur 6
#map alt+left send_text \033b
#map alt+right send_text \033f
# bell_path = ~/.config/.sounds/${bellSound}
    '';
    shellIntegration.enableZshIntegration = true;
  };
}

# sh.nix
{
  home.packages = with pkgs; [
    bat
  ];

  programs = {
#    thefuck.enable = true;

    eza = {
      enable = true;
      enableZshIntegration = true;
    };

    zoxide = {
      enable = true;
      enableZshIntegration = true;
    };

    fzf = {
      enable = true;
      enableZshIntegration = true;
    };

    bash = {
      inherit shellAliases;
      inherit sessionVariables;
     #enable = true;
      };

    zsh = {
      inherit shellAliases;
      inherit sessionVariables;
      enable = true;
      enableCompletion = true;
      autosuggestion.enable = true;
      syntaxHighlighting.enable = true;
      initContent = ''
        WORDCHARS="*?[]~=&;!#$%^(){}<>"
      '';
    };

    oh-my-posh = {
      enable = true;
      enableZshIntegration = true;
      useTheme = "powerlevel10k_rainbow";
    };
  };
}

EDIT: I‘ve left the shellAliases from the top out in sh.nix.

6

I did not mean fish, sorry, I meant kitty.

Then I have no idea why the shell info should diverge.

7

damn :downcast_face_with_sweat:
thanks anyway

8

So $TERMINFO should get updated with updates aswell right.

9

Totally depends on how it is set in the first place.

I would expect nix-darwin and HM to update it. Though to be honest, I would also expect to not see a storepath.

Does the location actually exist?

Do you set terminfo somewhere manually in your configuration? In your shells RC files?

10

Yeah the store for kitty39.1 still exists,.

I don’t have any config to set it actively. I also tried setting the var ti the current version, but it reverts to the old path when I reopen. So I think it must be set somewhere.

11

When I said “config”, I am not talking about HM and nix-darwin alone, but the entirety of possibly also imperatively managed configuration files you might have around.

12

Well the issue and solution is as often much simpler than I thought before.

I was actually still using the old version of kitty, I kept the old version in the dock so even tho I installed newer ones and “kitty –version” would also give me the new version I was using 39.1

It reminds me of another issue I want to solve. HM installed Applications aren‘t found with Spotlight by default or linked to the Applications folder. And I haven‘t found a solution yet, but it seems there is a new HM option for that:

targets.darwin.copyApps.enable