Alacritty

Last updated Aug 13, 2023

A cross-platform terminal emulator, written in Rust with support for:

• MacOS
• Windows
• Linux
• BSD

To install Alacritty there are a number of options. The easiest, though potentially most manual is to use Cargo

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cargo install alacritty

Alternatively the GitHub repository has pre-built downloads available on the latest releases page.

Alacritty configuration is written in YAML and running instances of Alacritty will automatically reload the configuration file when changes are saved.

My current configuration for Alacritty:

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font:
  normal:
    family: Fira Code
  size: 14.0

window:
    opacity: 0.9

import:
  - ~/.config/alacritty/themes/themes/solarized_dark.yaml