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authorDavid Hewitt <1939362+davidhewitt@users.noreply.github.com>2019-12-21 21:23:18 +0000
committerChristian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com>2019-12-21 21:23:18 +0000
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@@ -145,13 +145,13 @@ desktop environment has trouble rendering the default SVG icons, you can find
a prerendered SVG as well as simplified versions of the SVG in the
`extra/logo/compat` directory.
-To work properly on Windows, Alacritty requires winpty to emulate UNIX's PTY
-API. The agent is a single binary (`winpty-agent.exe`) which **must** be in
-the same directory as the Alacritty executable and is available through the
-[GitHub releases page](https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/releases).
+On Windows, Alacritty also requires Microsoft's VC++ redistributable.
-On Windows, Alacritty also requires Microsoft's VC++ redistributable to work
-properly.
+For Windows versions older than Windows 10 (October 2018 Update), Alacritty
+requires winpty to emulate UNIX's PTY API. The agent is a single binary
+(`winpty-agent.exe`) which **must** be in the same directory as the Alacritty
+executable and is available through the
+[GitHub releases page](https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/releases).
## Configuration