diff --git a/docs/build.rst b/docs/build.rst index 8f70ce0f4..90685db55 100644 --- a/docs/build.rst +++ b/docs/build.rst @@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ That's it, kitty will be built from source, magically. You can run it as This works, because the :code:`./dev.sh build` command downloads all the major dependencies of kitty as pre-built binaries for your platform and builds kitty -to use these rather than system libraries. +to use these rather than system libraries. The few required system libraries +are mostly X11 and DBUS on Linux, as can be seen in the `linux-dev +`__ +CI job. If you make changes to kitty code, simply re-run :code:`./dev.sh build` to build kitty with your changes.