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Alacritty

Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance.

Installation⚑

  • Clone the repo 
    git clone https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty.git
cd alacritty
  • Install rustup 
    curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
  • To make sure you have the right Rust compiler installed, run 
    rustup override set stable
rustup update stable
  • Install the dependencies 
    apt install cmake pkg-config libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxkbcommon-dev python3
  • Build the release 
    cargo build --release
    If all goes well, this should place a binary at target/release/alacritty
  • Move the binary to somewhere in your PATH

mv target/release/alacritty ~/.local/bin
- Check the terminfo: To make sure Alacritty works correctly, either the alacritty or alacritty-direct terminfo must be used. The alacritty terminfo will be picked up automatically if it is installed. If the following command returns without any errors, the alacritty terminfo is already installed:

infocmp alacritty

If it is not present already, you can install it globally with the following command:

sudo tic -xe alacritty,alacritty-direct extra/alacritty.info

Configuration⚑

Alacritty's configuration file uses the TOML format. It doesn't create the config file for you, but it looks for one in ~/.config/alacrity/alacritty.toml

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