alacritty1
A fast, cross-platform, opengl terminal emulator.
Usage
Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance.
Flags
-h, --help
Prints help information.
--hold
Remain open after child process exits.
--daemon
Do not spawn an initial window.
--print-events
Print all events to STDOUT.
-q
Reduces the level of verbosity (the min level is -qq).
--ref-test
Generates ref test
-v
Increases the level of verbosity (the max level is -vvv).
-V, --version
Prints version information.
Options
--class <GENERAL> | <GENERAL>,<INSTANCE>
Defines the window class hint on Linux.
When only the general class is passed, instance will be set to the same value.
On Wayland the general class sets the app_id, while the instance class is ignored.
Default: Alacritty,Alacritty
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-e, --command <COMMAND>... -
Command and args to execute (must be last argument).
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--config-file <CONFIG_FILE> -
Specify alternative configuration file.
Alacritty doesn't create the config file for you, but it looks for one in the following locations on UNIX systems:
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$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.toml
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$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.toml
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$HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml
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$HOME/.alacritty.toml
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/etc/alacritty/alacritty.toml
On Windows, the config file will be looked for in:
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%APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.toml
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--embed <PARENT> -
X11 window ID to embed Alacritty within (decimal or hexadecimal with 0x prefix).
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-o, --option <OPTION>... -
Override configuration file options.
Example: alacritty -o 'cursor.style="Beam"'
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--socket <SOCKET> -
Path for IPC socket creation.
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-T, --title <TITLE> -
Defines the window title.
Default: Alacritty
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--working-directory <WORKING_DIRECTORY> -
Start the shell in the specified working directory.
Subcommands
msg
Send IPC socket messages (see alacritty-msg(1)).
migrate
Migrate the configuration file.
-c, --config-file <CONFIG_FILE>
Path to the configuration file.
-d, --dry-run
Only output TOML config to STDOUT.
-i, --skip-imports
Do not recurse over imports.
--skip-renames
Do not move renamed fields to their new location.
-s, --silent
Do not output to STDOUT.
-h, --help
Print help information.
Maintainers
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Christian Duerr <[email protected]> |
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Kirill Chibisov <[email protected]> |
Releases
3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.