The login argument is for the shell to read the configurations inside the user’s home, if it is not specified, it will not read the ~/.zshrc file. Now we have to configure the shell that we will launch when Alacritty opens with the following snippet: shell: In History we will indicate the number of lines to save in the buffer and multiplier is the number of lines that we will move in each tick of the scroll.
The next step is the command history that the terminal saves as a cache: scrolling: Once the configuration file is created, we will begin to complete it, we will begin with the window section, where we will define a minimum opacity, that it is executed in window mode (not fullscreen) and with a padding to create distance between the text and the border of the terminal: window: $ touch alacritty/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml Configuring Alacrittyīefore configuring anything, Alacritty already has some sensible default settings, among them, the option that the configuration refreshes automatically without having to restart the terminal. The path we will use to link the configuration will be $HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml, although you have more directories in the documentation. In this article we are going to see a simple but very functional configuration of the Alacritty terminal in conjunction with ZSH and tmux.Īs we have previously mentioned, Alacritty is configured using a dotfile that we will save in our stow directory, so we will create the whole file structure that we will then link in our $HOME with stow. It is also a dotfile configurable terminal, a very positive point since I can include it in my dotfile collection. But I added a third element to the equation of what I was looking for, and that was to be cross platform, not having to be configuring N terminals for each OS that I have to use throughout my career, that’s where Alacritty comes in.ĭisclaimer: I don’t make intensive use of the terminal, as a developer I spend more time in IntelliJ.Īlacritty is sold as the fastest since it uses OpenGL, and it is true that I have noticed some speed when loading, although it may be placebo, I have no complaints about the speed of iTerm2. The theme is something very common in most of the terminals and the tabs, in the modern ones, too.
The first thing I needed was to see what I really needed, which came to be the theme and tabs.
BEST ALACRITTY CONFIG WINDOWS
I recently had the pleasure (and it’s not ironic) of working with the Windows environment and its WSL2, and I went crazy to find something similar. The problem comes when we go to another operating system.
BEST ALACRITTY CONFIG MAC
It is well known by the mac community and not for less, a terminal is not that it has much work to do but the little it has to do, it does it very well (tabs, tmux integration, customization). CLI program that allows you to change your Alacritty config with one command.
BEST ALACRITTY CONFIG INSTALL
I’ve been working on mac for many years with the same terminal: iTerm2. I liked alacritty the most as the config is easy and cross compatible, there are plenty of themes (npm install -g alacritty-themes), and it is fast enough that I can’t notice any particular slowdown under heavy usage.
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