Alacritty GPU Accelerated Terminal Emulator

What is Alacritty?

Alacritty bills itself as the fastest terminal emulator in existence.

From the repo:

"Using the GPU for rendering enables optimizations that simply aren't possible without it. Alacritty currently supports macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows."

Installing Alacritty

Mac
brew cask install alacritty
Ubuntu
sudo apt install alacritty
Arch
sudo pacman -S alacritty
Windows
choco install alacritty

Configure

Add a config file since Alacritty doesn't create one for you

On Linux and Mac
~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
On Windows
%APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml

Example Config

colors:
  # Default colors
  primary:
    background: "#1e2127"
    # background: "#2E3440"
    foreground: "#D8DEE9"

# Normal colors
  normal:
    black: "#3B4252"
    red: "#BF616A"
    green: "#A3BE8C"
    yellow: "#EBCB8B"
    blue: "#81A1C1"
    magenta: "#B48EAD"
    cyan: "#88C0D0"
    white: "#abb2bf"

# Bright colors
  bright:
    black: "#5c6370"
    red: "#e06c75"
    green: "#98c379"
    yellow: "#d19a66"
    blue: "#61afef"
    magenta: "#c678dd"
    cyan: "#56b6c2"
    white: "#ECEFF4"

background_opacity: 1.0

font:
  normal:
    family: "Hack"
    style: Regular
  bold:
    family: "Hack"
    style: Bold
  italic:
    family: "Hack"
    style: Italic
  bold_italic:
    family: "Hack"
    style: Bold Italic

# Point size
  size: 22.0

offset:
    x: 0
    y: 0
  glyph_offset:
    x: 0
    y: 0

window:
  padding:
    x: 2
    y: 2

scrolling:
  # Maximum number of lines in the scrollback buffer.
  # Specifying '0' will disable scrolling.
  history: 10000

# Number of lines the viewport will move for every line scrolled when
  # scrollback is enabled (history > 0).
  multiplier: 10

# If `true`, bold text is drawn using the bright color variants.
draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors: true

selection:
  semantic_escape_chars: ',│`|:"'' ()[]{}<>'
  save_to_clipboard: true

live_config_reload: true

key_bindings:
  - { key: V, mods: Control|Shift, action: Paste }
  - { key: C, mods: Control|Shift, action: Copy }
  - { key: Key0, mods: Control, action: ResetFontSize }
  - { key: Equals, mods: Control, action: IncreaseFontSize }
  - { key: Add, mods: Control, action: IncreaseFontSize }
  - { key: Subtract, mods: Control, action: DecreaseFontSize }
  - { key: Minus, mods: Control, action: DecreaseFontSize }
  - { key: N, mods: Control, action: SpawnNewInstance }

Proving it runs on the GPU

If you're running nvidia you check using the following command

Links

Repo

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