Alacritty

is terminal emulator focused on simplicity and performance.]] The performance goal means it should be faster than any other terminal emulators available. The simplicity goal means it does not have features such as tabs or splits (which can be better provided by a window manager).

is written in Rust and GPU-accelerated using OpenGL.

Emerge
Install package:

Files
does not automatically create or install a configuration file, but it will search for one in the following locations:



Configuration files with currently supported values are provided with each upstream release. On Gentoo, depending on the version installed, the file can be found in the following location. Be sure to adjust the  ( package version) value to align with whatever version is currently installed on the system.

The default configuration can be created in a users' home directory with the following commands:

By default will reload the configuration automatically when changes have been written into the file. This behavior can be disabled with the following invocation:

This can also be disabled via the configuration file:

The configuration file should be downloaded and edited from the repository's release page. Explanations are provided in the configuration file.

Font configuration
One can run the following command and copy the desired font name:

Changing the default font by editing the config file.

This will change the font to one provided by, given that the package is installed.

Colors configuration
With this config, will use. To switch to the dark version, change  to.

More schemes can be found from this page: alacritty Wiki of Color schemes.

Configuration with
Since does not support tabs intentionally, one can use :

See also:

Using fcitx
This needs and  installed. The initialization file should look like this:

The most important thing is to start i3 last.

Colorless
See related GitHub issue.

Alternative solution
did not set  or , these can be set in the   or   or other   file.

For example:

There is a simple way to set colorful file:

Window title
The default title is:.

Bash
In Bash, one can set the window title by manipulating the environment variable.

The following will set the window title to:.

Zsh
In Zsh, one can set the window title by using the functions  and  :

The following will set the window title to:

For example:

While executing :

External resources

 * Rust Meetup January 2017 - A short talk about at the Rust Meetup January 2017 (starts at 57:00).