Alacritty

Alacritty - A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

Alacritty

Installation

brew install alacritty

Configuration

You can find the default configuration file with documentation for all available fields on the GitHub releases page for each release.

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

1. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml
2. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.yml
3. $HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
4. $HOME/.alacritty.yml

Windows

On Windows, the config file should be located at:

%APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml

Personal Config

# ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
window:
  opacity: 0.85
  dimensions:
    columns: 125
    lines: 40
  padding:
    x: 16
    y: 16
  dynamic_padding: false
  # decorations: buttonless
 
font:
  normal:
    family: "Hack Nerd Font Mono"
    style: Regular
  size: 16.0