Alacritty Reviews and details

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• I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals

  IME, this is like the golden age of terminal apps in general and macOS-compatible ones in particular. There are several really good terminals for macOS: [iTerm2 app](https://iterm2.com/) [Kitty terminal](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) [WezTerm terminal](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html) [Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) -... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• alacritty-themes not working any more!!!

  # We use Alacritty's default Linux config directory as our storage location here. Mkdir -p ~/.config/alacritty/themes Git clone https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty-theme ~/.config/alacritty/themes. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• what terminal emulator do you use and why?

  For this reason, and because I think the Zellij project is interesting, I currently use a combination of Alacritty and Zellij, as I consider the risk of OSC52 in my use case to be relatively low. Source: 5 months ago

• Which terminal do you use? I don't like Warp

  I personally love using Alacritty. Super fast, and no bloat. Takes a little bit of setup such as setting up a Font if you want icons to appear. Kitty is supposed to be really good, but I've never used it before. Source: 10 months ago

• Warp? A terminal behind login popup

  My journey of using terminal emulators began together with my introduction to Linux about 7 years ago. GNOME terminal was my first as it came pre-installed on Ubuntu, my first Linux distribution. Since then, I've had the opportunity to explore and utilize a range of terminal emulators, including Alacritty, Kitty, st, Konsole, xterm, and most recently iTerm2. It's been interesting to experiment with these different... - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• Mint vs Arch

  What terminal emulator are you using? I prefer alacritty -- https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty. Source: 12 months ago

• What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?

  Alacritty was great but Kitty is just awesome. Source: 12 months ago

• Questions about Tuxedo OS

  Other programs like alacritty are not even in the repos. Source: about 1 year ago

• What are terminal emulators for?

  Https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty do you have any idea on how this could be useful? Source: over 1 year ago

• What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?

  Alacritty is simple and fast[0] (it does have mouse support, but no tabs, sessions, or startup scripts as far as I know. Configuration is all via config file.). Is that the kind of thing that you were looking for? [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Suggest me a terminal

  Alacrittyis my fave so far. It uses the GPU for rendering making it really fast. Source: over 1 year ago

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v1.0.0 released

  Alacritty is super fast. Some basic features (at least more than what's provided by Windows default). Source: over 1 year ago

• Rust Easy! Modern Cross-platform Command Line Tools to Supercharge Your Terminal

  Let us start with the terminal itself. Alacritty is a cross-platform modern terminal emulator with sensible defaults. It is GPU accelerated, super fast, and highly configurable. You can use it on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It doesn't have much in terms of a UI, and hence all configurations are done through YAML files. I don't use it as my primary terminal as I love Yakuake too much for all its cool features. We... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Weird Terminal Color Problem -- LXTerminal, urxvt, .Xresources, and VIM are not playing well together

  The solution of course is to use a better terminal emulator. Personally I use wezterm, which ships with 700 color themes to choose from, including gruvbox. Kitty is good too, and also comes with a lot of themes. If you need something light weight, maybe alacritty? Source: over 1 year ago

• How to DIY timelapse from saved pngs with bash and ffmpeg (in comments)

  I rarely use Windows, /r/linux_gaming ftw, but I would recommend either cmder or alacritty or other terminal with some reverse search in history of commands. cmd.exe is usually an emergency. Source: over 1 year ago

• Modern CLI Stack - all Rust!

  And there's also https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty :). Source: over 1 year ago

• Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (37/2022)!

  Is there a way to get an accurate line count and compile time? For example https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty. It takes ~50s to compile on my machine. I can't figure out the line count when it includes dependencies. Source: over 1 year ago

• A look at various trends shaping the future of the command line

  Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty I'm sure there's lots of other stuff I don't know about as well. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?

  Have you looked at Alacritty[1]? Once I adopted tmux, I really enjoyed using Alacritty. [1] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Are you missing any native (free) software in Debian?

  For instance, Joplin) is one such software available in all of the above three flavors but not natively. Alacritty is available as snap package but not yet natively. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?

  I was a happy urxvt user for years, but switched to Alacritty[1] about a year or so ago. My main reasons for switching were wanting better emoji support (urxvt handles Unicode admirably, but not emoji) and wanting a better configuration language (I hate writing Xresource rules). I don't believe it's had a 1.0 release yet, but it's been stable in my use cases, and (perceptively) performant. [1]:... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago