Alacritty
Original author(s)Joe Wilm[1]
Developer(s)Kirill Chibisov, Christian Dürr[2]
Stable release
0.12.0[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 24 March 2023; 43 days ago (24 March 2023)
Repository
Written inRust
Operating systemmacOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD
Platformx86-64, IA-32
LicenseApache License, Version 2.0
Websitealacritty.org

Alacritty is a free and open-source GPU-accelerated terminal emulator focused on performance and simplicity. Consequently, it does not support tabs or splits and is configured by editing a text file. It is written in Rust and uses OpenGL (for performance).[4][5][6] A similar terminal emulator that uses OpenGL is kitty.

History

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Joe Wilm announced Alacritty in his blog on 6 January 2017. He describes it as "the result of frustration with existing terminal emulators. Using vim inside tmux in many terminals was a particularly bad experience. None of them were ever quite fast enough". He found urxvt and st difficult to configure and criticized their "inability to run on non-X11 platforms".[1]

With the release of version 0.2.0 in September 2018 Alacritty gained support for scrollback.[7]

In version 0.3.0, released in April 2019, Alacritty entered beta stage and support for Windows, text reflow, and clicking on URLs was added.[8]

In version 0.5.0, released in July 2020, a mode with vi keybindings for searching and copying text was added.[9]

In version 0.6.0, released in November 2020, a new Ctrl+C binding to cancel search and leave vi mode was added.[10]

Features

Alacritty supports true color in addition to the standard 16 ANSI colors.[11]

Alacritty explicitly does not support tabs or splits because similar functionality can be achieved with a terminal multiplexer or window manager.[12][13]

Configuration

Alacritty is configured by editing a template file in YAML format, for example:[5]

colors:
    primary:
        background: '#000000'

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Wilm, Joe (2017-01-06). "Announcing Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator". jwilm.io. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  2. ^ "Alacritty Open Source Project on Open Hub: Contributions Listing Page".
  3. ^ "Release 0.12.0". 24 March 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  4. ^ Senthil Kumar Palani (2019-10-29). "Alacritty – A Lightweight And Blazingly Fast Terminal Emulator". OSTechNix. Retrieved 2020-07-27.((cite web)): CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ a b angeloma17 (2020-03-18). "Alacritty the fastest terminal emulator for Linux". OSRadar. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  6. ^ Morelo, David. "Top 7 Best Linux Terminals – Linux Hint". Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  7. ^ Wilm, Joe (2018-09-17). "Alacritty now supports scrollback". jwilm.io. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  8. ^ Dürr, Christian (2019-04-07). "Alacritty Version 0.3.0 Release". Archived from the original on 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  9. ^ Dürr, Christian (2020-07-31). "Alacritty Version 0.5.0 Release". christianduerr.com. Archived from the original on 2020-08-01. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  10. ^ "Release Alacritty Version 0.6.0". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  11. ^ Beaupré, Antoine (2018-03-30). "A look at terminal emulators, part 1". LWN.net. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  12. ^ "GitHub - alacritty/Alacritty at v0.4.3". GitHub.
  13. ^ Kili, Aaron (2020-06-05). "Alacritty – A Fastest Terminal Emulator for Linux". TecMint. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
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