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@@ -60,14 +60,19 @@ Your saves carry over. They live in `~/.local/share/orrery/saves`, and
`cargo uninstall orrery` removes the game but leaves them.
**Which terminal.** Orrery plays in Terminal, with two caveats, and
-[Ghostty](https://ghostty.org) or [kitty](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/)
-avoid both:
+[iTerm2](https://iterm2.com), [Ghostty](https://ghostty.org) or
+[kitty](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) avoid both:
- Terminal on macOS older than 26 (Tahoe) can't show 24-bit colour, so
Orrery's colours come out wrong there.
- Terminal can't tell when a key is held down, so in flight `↑` and `↓`
- step a throttle up and down instead of thrusting while held. Ghostty and
- kitty can; the title screen says which kind you're in.
+ step a throttle up and down instead of thrusting while held. The others
+ can; the title screen says which kind you're in.
+
+In iTerm2, keep it up to date (3.6.9 or later: iTerm2 → Check for
+Updates). If the title screen says held keys aren't detectable, turn on
+Settings → Profiles → Keys → "Apps can change how keys are reported", then
+quit Orrery and start it again.
Give it a big window, about 120 columns by 40 rows or more. Where the
keys below say `ctrl`, that's the Control key, not ⌘.