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:

Configuration
Following paths are searched for configuration:



If no configuration is found then is created on the first run. On most systems this path defaults to:.

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.

Choosing a font
Since alacritty is configured by editing a configure file by hand users can't just choose a font from a submenu. This might cause some problems since one needs to supply the exact font name for Alacritty. To make things easier users of alacritty can run following command and just copy+paste the desired font name:

Font is too small or big
Status of this caveat can be tracked under: Issue #1501.

External resources

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