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  1. Decided to add scroll velocity to as a nice QoL improvement for :

    github.com/alacritty/alacritty

    Hopefully this should help scrolling through big terminal backlogs without access to a mouse.

  2. Support in other applications is spotty: The #alacritty terminal emulator accepts input from multiple seats, #kitty doesn't.

    You can kinda browse the web together using #firefox, but only if you start it after the seats have been set up. #chromium doesn't seem to support multiple seats at all.

    I think writing end-user applications with great multi-seat support (or patching existing ones) is currently the lowest-hanging fruit!

  3. I’m going back to #Yakuake as my main #terminal app. For a longish while it had problems with global shortcut keys under #Wayland meaning it could only be activated if it already had the focus, but now everything seems to be all right again. Farewell #Alacritty, you are an excellent terminal emulator, but Yakuake is just always “there” at my fingertip. #KDEPlasma #KDE #FLOSS #Linux

  4. I've always been too afraid of tiling window managers and also too lazy to learn new behaviors. I've tried it many times but I failed again and again because of my laziness.

    Yesterday I've installed #herbstluftwm on #Xubuntu on a low end Fujitsu U727 notebook and played around for while with the configuration. Well, I think I fell in love this time. 😍 Very smooth! And I think replacing xterm with #alacritty was also a good idea.

    Is there anything I should definitely try?

    #windowmanager #tilingwindowmanager #linux

  5. is there someone on here who uses #pkgsrc with #macos ?

    i can download #alacritty with pkgsrc now, but the version it installs for macos doesn't seem to be the version i can download from github -- it isn't installed to /Applications and has to be bootstrapped via Terminal.app to run.

    are there any clever/simple ways to rig this up? am i missing something obvious?

  6. Found this TODO list for on an old drive today:

    - reduce cell storage size (zerowidth)
    - Fix box drawing
    - Synchronized updates
    - Fix keybindings/VirtualKeyCodes
    - Use proc_pidinfo for SpawnNewInstance on macOS
    - Blinking cursor
    - Rework configuration
    - New VSync / Frame scheduling on macOS/Windows/X11
    - website
    - Tmux margins?
    - Regex URLs?
    -> Different launchers for different regexes?

    Nice to see that all of them (other than tmux margins) have been implemented.

  7. Normally I prefer using dark themes. When working on the terrace indeed light themes show better contrast. I've created a script that toggles dark/light mode in #alacritty and #kde / #plasma : gist.github.com/sarmbruster/41

    Just in case you might find that useful. #linux

  8. One of my favorite featues of is how it allows you to shrink its windows to any size, which allows you to use an Alacritty window as a ruler...

  9. наконец-то нормальные картинки в нормальном терминале, как же хорошо когда есть #guix

    =>
    https://git.phreedom.club/taxuswc/tyaguch/src/branch/master/tgch/terminals.scm#L78

    #alacritty #sixel

  10. Just saw that they open sourced warp (the terminal that turned into LLM slop) and decided to look at some of the remaining terminal emulation pieces.

    There's some *interesting* similarities in the terminal code I've looked at so far:

    Warp:
    github.com/warpdotdev/warp/blo

    Alacritty:
    github.com/alacritty/vte/blob/

    Interesting how quickly an Apache (and in parts MIT) license can turn into AGPL.

  11. Alacritty 0.17: aggiornamenti TOML 1.1 e nuove opzioni per Wayland

    Scopri le novità di Alacritty 0.17: aggiornamento a TOML 1.1, nuove binding per il mouse e miglioramenti per Wayland e macOS.

    yoota.it/alacritty-0-17-aggior

  12. Just released version 0.17.0 of Alacritty:
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty

    My personal highlight is the improvements to focus tracking for touch devices, which is very useful on Linux phones.

  13. Early 2026 #FOSS Tools I use:

    OS (Desktop, Mobile, and Server)
    - #Debian 13 w/Cinnamon DE
    - #Proxmox 9.1
    - @homeassistant
    - @GrapheneOS

    Email
    - @protonprivacy

    Notes and Office
    - @zettlr
    - @libreoffice

    Android Application "Stores"
    - Obtainium

    Browsers
    - @librewolf
    - @torproject
    - #UnGoogledChromium
    - #IronFox

    VPN
    - @mullvadnet

    Password and TOTP Manager
    - @protonprivacy #ProtonPass

    Search
    - @ecosia
    - @MetaGer

    Social
    - @Mastodon
    - @element
    - #Stoat
    - @clerotri

    Media Playback
    - #Qmmp
    - #MPV
    - #Haruna

    Media Creation
    - @GIMP
    - @OBSProject
    - @kdenlive
    - #Audacity

    Gaming
    - @heroiclauncher

    Other Utilities
    - #Alacritty
    - #Easy Effects
    - #VIA
    - #MusicBrainz Picard

    Maybe I should also post a list of what is on my #homelab

    #FOSSStack #OpenSource #Applications #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #Privacy #HomeAssistant #VPN #Mullvad #Proton #Ecosia #MetaGer #Mastodon #Matrix #Element #Discord

  14. My laptop had filled with 4 years of cruft, conflicting configs, and unnecessary files. Things were slow so I decided to wipe it completely. I always loathe setting up new machines but honestly it was a breeze. Getting my dev environment and look and feel back up only took about an hour or so, and this thing boots so much faster now.

    #Linux #Fedora #Fastfetch #Alacritty #Framework

  15. Moved from #alacritty to #kitty this week. But I really needed a better icon.
    Picked the white one. 😺github.com/DinkDonk/kitty-icon

  16. @jnunemaker I see no mention of #Alacritty here. I switched to it form iTerm2 (which I had been sponsoring and using for years and years) when iTerm2 introduced AI features.

  17. @ruralocity @mitchellh after one week of usage I can tell I'm not going back to #alacritty, I will keep myself using #ghostty for the foreseeable future.

  18. I've been told your #Rails leader uses #Alacritty as his terminal emulator - part of their Linux "distribution"...

    That above has accelerated my _need_ to move to something else since I had some other issues - besides being kind-of-slow in my environment...

    So, starting today I'm changing to #Ghostty, by @mitchellh

    ghostty.org

    Ghostty is neat, and works perfectly with my current setup: #tmux + #ViM on both, macOS and Linux.

  19. Graphical apps like #Alacritty now works, it just needs something called #NixGL installed, and then you have to run the application from the terminal with nixGL, example:

    nixGL alacritty

    Which does mean you couldn't just launch it from its desktop entry/icon, since that'll run without
    nixGL and fail. I thought to update its .desktop file, and I found it at:
    ~/.nix-profile/share/applications/Alacritty.desktop

    but it seems that said file is meant to be read-only, so.. dk. Happy to see
    nixGL works tho!

    🔗 https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL

  20. Testing out #Nix on #SteamOS/#SteamDeck, and so far so good! It's been helpful in getting any of the missing non-graphical packages I need, such as to install and get my #KDE/#Dolphin service menu working (https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/kde-service-menu-reimage) - where I needed a couple of missing deps like #ImageMagick and #Exiftool.

    Most of the graphical apps I need are easily found/installable on
    #Flatpak though, except something like #Alacritty. I previously installed it on this system using #Distrobox and it worked great, I thought to test installing a graphical app off of Nix - but it doesn't seem that worked with Alacritty. From my search it's something to do with GL/Vulkan apps outside of #NixOS or something of the like. There were also some apps that aren't available as Flatpaks, are available on #ArchLinux 's #AUR, but aren't available on Nix.

    There will also be things that don't work too, I think for reasons that may be obvious to others, such as adding HEIC support to KDE apps like Dolphin (for previews) and
    #Gwenview (for image viewing). On a 'normal' Linux system, this is done by installing libheif and kimageformats (pretty sure u need both). Installing them on this SteamOS machine tho off of Nix, doesn't really help the system's Dolphin and Gwenview app to be able to serve/open HEIC files.

    Still, I know I'm just barely scratching the surface of what I could do with Nix - even as just a 'package manager'. I understand why maybe
    #Valve is holding themselves back from pre-installing Nix for now tho (unlike something like #Podman or #Distrobox, which they were surprisingly - in a good way, happy to do) bcos the situation with the Nix project, atm, is a lil confusing.. but as recommended by others on here, I think I'm having a good luck/time with the #Lix project's 'flavour' of Nix.

    🔗 https://lix.systems

  21. Alacritty 0.16, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, adds support for Unicode 17, new Vi motions, and system-wide configuration options.
    linuxiac.com/alacritty-0-16-te

    #alacritty #terminal #opensource