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@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ the following dependencies are installed first.
* freetype (not needed on macOS)
* fontconfig (not needed on macOS)
* ImageMagick (optional, needed to use the `kitty icat` tool to display images in the terminal)
* pygments (optional, need for syntax highlighting in `kitty +kitten diff`)
* gcc or clang (required only for building)
* pkg-config (required only for building)
* For building on Linux in addition to the above dependencies you might also need to install the `-dev` packages for `xcursor`, `xrandr`, `libxi`, `xinerama`, `libgl1-mesa` and `xkbcommon-x11`, if they are not already installed by your distro.
@ -604,6 +605,20 @@ You can, of course, also run kitty from a terminal with command line options, us
And within kitty itself, you can always run kitty using just `kitty` as it
cleverly adds itself to the PATH.
=== kitty is not able to use my favorite font?
kitty achieves its stellar performance by caching alpha masks of each rendered
character on the GPU, so that every character needs to be rendered only once.
This means it is a strictly character cell based display. As such it can use
only monospace fonts, since every cell in the grid has to be the same size. If
your font is not listed in `kitty list-fonts` it means that it is not
monospace. On Linux you can list all monospace fonts with,
```
fc-list : family spacing | grep spacing=100
```
== Resources on terminal behavior
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html