#alacritty — Public Fediverse posts

Decided to add scroll velocity to #Alacritty as a nice QoL improvement for #linuxmobile :

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/9008

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

#rust #linux

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!

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

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

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?

Found this TODO list for #Alacritty 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.

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 : https://gist.github.com/sarmbruster/41ecce95e96568c2a26105d93333a746

Just in case you might find that useful. #linux

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

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

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:
https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/blob/master/crates/warp_terminal/src/model/ansi/control_sequence_parameters.rs#L15

Alacritty:
https://github.com/alacritty/vte/blob/master/src/ansi.rs#L819

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

#rust #warp #alacritty

Alacritty 0.17: aggiornamenti TOML 1.1 e nuove opzioni per Wayland

https://yoota.it/alacritty-0-17-aggiornamenti-toml-1-1-e-nuove-opzioni-per-wayland/

Just released version 0.17.0 of Alacritty:
https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.17.0

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

#alacritty #rust

Alacritty Contributors released #Alacritty version 0.17.0. https://alacritty.org/

Release Candidate 1 of Alacritty 0.17.0 is now available for testing:

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.17.0-rc1

#alacritty #terminal #linux #rust

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

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

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

@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.

even (Free)BSD can be stylish with Hyprland

#freebsd #hyprland #waybar #alacritty

@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.

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

https://ghostty.org

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

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

~/.nix-profile/share/applications/Alacritty.desktop

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

Alacritty Contributors released #Alacritty version 0.16.1. https://alacritty.org/

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

#alacritty #terminal #opensource