

Regex hints can be used to find text in the visible part of the terminal and pipe it to other applications. To copy/paste to/from X clipboard, you can use a mouse selection to copy and a middle mouse click to paste. To copy, you can either use a mouse to select and press Ctrl+Shift+c, or enter Vi mode, start a selection using v, move around with hjkl like in vim, and copy the selection with y. By default, you can toggle it using Ctrl+Shift+Space.

The vi mode allows moving around Alacritty's viewport and scrollback using the keyboard. Tips and tricks Spawn new instance in same directoryĪdd the following lines to your configuration file to spawn a new instance of Alacritty in the current working directory by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter:

Note that some fonts do not provide an Italic style but an Oblique style instead. Substitute monospace with a font name from the output of If you do not want to use your system’s default font, you can specify a different font by changing the following lines: If your preferred color scheme is on the list, paste the provided code into your configuration file. See the upstream wiki for a list of available color schemes. Most settings take effect as soon as you save the file. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.ymlĬopy the example configuration file at /usr/share/doc/alacritty/example/alacritty.yml to one of those places and uncomment the settings you want to change.
ALACRITTY LINUX INSTALL
Install the alacritty package or alacritty-git AUR for the development version.Īlacritty searches for a configuration file at the following places in this order: It supports scrollback, 24-bit colors ( w:Color depth#True color (24-bit), copy/paste, clicking on URLs, and custom key bindings. Alacritty is a simple, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust.
