doesn't work with sudo nvim

[kaymmm]

The kitty.conf keybindings don't work when invoked with sudo. The pass_keys.py script captures "sudo" as the first executed command rather than nvim (the second command).

One partial solution to this is to change lines 9 of pass_keys.py to:

    return any(re.search(vim_id, p['cmdline'][p['cmdline'][0] == 'sudo'] if len(p['cmdline']) else '', re.I) for p in fp)

However, I can't figure out why this doesn't allow switching from the sudo nvim kitty window to the next adjacent kitty window. It works fine with non-sudo nvim windows.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[critterjohnson]

I believe sudo processes have their own session and environment that kitty does not touch. In other words, kitty can't even see processes run in sudo. I was not able to reproduce your workaround for this reason. However if sudo nvim is showing up in your logs, then you should be able to put

map ctrl+j kitten pass_keys.py bottom ctrl+j "(sudo )?n?vim"
map ctrl+k kitten pass_keys.py top    ctrl+k "(sudo )?n?vim"
map ctrl+h kitten pass_keys.py left   ctrl+h "(sudo )?n?vim"
map ctrl+l kitten pass_keys.py right  ctrl+l "(sudo )?n?vim"
allow_remote_control yes
listen_on unix:/tmp/mykitty

in your ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf (change that last line if you're on linux; see the README).