Alacritty

Alacritty 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 doesn't have features such as tabs or splits (which can be better provided by a window manager).

Alacritty is written in Rust and GPU-accelerated using OpenGL.

Emerge
Install package:

Files
Alacritty doesn't create the config file for you, but it looks for one in the following locations:



The default configuration file get installed into directory.

Many configuration options will take effect immediately upon saving the config file. Exception are the  and   sections which requires Alacritty to be restarted.

For detailed explanation of the config file, please consult the comments in the default config file.

Alacritty configuration file takes effect automatically，it can be disabled by:

For better use, the config file should be downloaded and edited: alacritty.yml

Font configuration
To make things easier users can run following command and just copy and paste the desired font name:

Changing the default font by editing the config file.

This will change the font to Hack

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

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

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

The most important thing is to start i3 last.

Colorless
Alacritty didn't 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
Default title is: "Alacritty", we will set it to "user@host:cwd".

External resources

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