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<h1 align="center">Alacritty - A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator</h1>
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## About
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Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but
allows for extensive [configuration](#configuration). By integrating with other
applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to
provide a flexible set of [features](./docs/features.md) with high performance.
The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.
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The software is considered to be at a **beta** level of readiness; there are
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a few missing features and bugs to be fixed, but it is already used by many as
a daily driver.
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Move Alacritty to organization This fixes various outdated links pointing to the old jwilm/alacritty repository. Since `copypasta` now has its own github repository at https://github.com/alacritty/copypasta, the sources have been removed from Alacritty.
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Precompiled binaries are available from the [GitHub releases page](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases).
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Join [`#alacritty`] on libera.chat if you have questions or looking for a quick help.
[`#alacritty`]: https://web.libera.chat/gamja/?channels=#alacritty
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## Features
You can find an overview over the features available in Alacritty [here](./docs/features.md).
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## Further information
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- [Announcing Alacritty, a GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator](https://jwilm.io/blog/announcing-alacritty/) January 6, 2017
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- [A talk about Alacritty at the Rust Meetup January 2017](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHOdYO3WUTk) January 19, 2017
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- [Alacritty Lands Scrollback, Publishes Benchmarks](https://jwilm.io/blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/) September 17, 2018
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## Installation
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Alacritty can be installed by using various package managers on Linux, BSD,
macOS and Windows.
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Prebuilt binaries for macOS and Windows can also be downloaded from the
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[GitHub releases page](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases).
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Rework installation instructions Since users should be capable of finding packages for their distributions, this removes all instructions that point users directly at specific packages. The third party repositories like COPR have been kept, since those are more difficult to find. The structure of the installation instructions has also been reworked to adjust for this and the post build instructions should be a bit cleaner now. Co-authored-by: Christian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com>
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For everyone else, the detailed instructions to install Alacritty can be found
[here](INSTALL.md).
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### Requirements
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- At least OpenGL ES 2.0
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- [Windows] ConPTY support (Windows 10 version 1809 or higher)
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## Configuration
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**Alacritty versions before 0.13.0 are using YAML configuration files
and all their settings were documented in the `alacritty.yml`. The example
`alacritty.yml` file for each release can be found on [GitHub releases page](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases).**
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You can find the documentation for Alacritty's configuration in `man 5
alacritty`, or by looking at [the scdoc file] if you do not have the manpages
installed.
[the scdoc file]: ./extra/man/alacritty.5.scd
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Alacritty doesn't create the config file for you, but it looks for one in the
following locations:
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1. `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.toml`
2. `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.toml`
3. `$HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml`
4. `$HOME/.alacritty.toml`
Conform to XDG spec for configuration - Use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml for loading the configuration file falling back to $HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml - Closes #203
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Add support for Windows (#1374) Initial support for Windows is implemented using the winpty translation layer. Clipboard support for Windows is provided through the `clipboard` crate, and font rasterization is provided by RustType. The tty.rs file has been split into OS-specific files to separate standard pty handling from the winpty implementation. Several binary components are fetched via build script on windows including libclang and winpty. These could be integrated more directly in the future either by building those dependencies as part of the Alacritty build process or by leveraging git lfs to store the artifacts. Fixes #28.
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### Windows
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On Windows, the config file should be located at:
Add support for Windows (#1374) Initial support for Windows is implemented using the winpty translation layer. Clipboard support for Windows is provided through the `clipboard` crate, and font rasterization is provided by RustType. The tty.rs file has been split into OS-specific files to separate standard pty handling from the winpty implementation. Several binary components are fetched via build script on windows including libclang and winpty. These could be integrated more directly in the future either by building those dependencies as part of the Alacritty build process or by leveraging git lfs to store the artifacts. Fixes #28.
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Switch to TOML configuration format This switches Alacritty's default configuration format from yaml to toml. While yaml is still supported, it is done by converting it to toml and should be removed entirely in the future. All existing features were persisted based on my testing. Behavior should not change much, though `--option` might have slightly different behavior since the entire line is not interpreted as one line of toml. A new `alacritty migrate` subcommand has been added which allows automatic migration from yaml to toml. This also could be used as a facility to automatically fix configuration file changes in the future. Closes #6592.
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`%APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.toml`
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Set maximum Rust version to 1.31.0 By setting the minimum Rust version and enforcing it with CI, Alacritty should hopefully make it possible for maintainers to package the application even on distributions which are not rolling release. The 1.31.0 target has been chosen here because it's the first version of the Rust 2018 release. Bumping this version in the future should be considered to be a breaking change and should only be done with caution and in consideration of the supported Rust versions of the major distributions available. This fixes #2277.
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## Contributing
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A guideline about contributing to Alacritty can be found in the
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[`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md) file.
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## FAQ
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**_Is it really the fastest terminal emulator?_**
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Benchmarking terminal emulators is complicated. Alacritty uses
[vtebench](https://github.com/alacritty/vtebench) to quantify terminal emulator
throughput and manages to consistently score better than the competition using
it. If you have found an example where this is not the case, please report a
bug.
Other aspects like latency or framerate and frame consistency are more difficult
to quantify. Some terminal emulators also intentionally slow down to save
resources, which might be preferred by some users.
If you have doubts about Alacritty's performance or usability, the best way to
quantify terminal emulators is always to test them with **your** specific
usecases.
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**_Why isn't feature X implemented?_**
Alacritty has many great features, but not every feature from every other
terminal. This could be for a number of reasons, but sometimes it's just not a
good fit for Alacritty. This means you won't find things like tabs or splits
(which are best left to a window manager or [terminal multiplexer][tmux]) nor
niceties like a GUI config editor.
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[tmux]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux
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## License
Alacritty is released under the [Apache License, Version 2.0].
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[Apache License, Version 2.0]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/LICENSE-APACHE
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