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Alacritty
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[](https://travis-ci.org/jwilm/alacritty)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jwilm/alacritty)
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Alacritty is the fastest terminal emulator in existence. Using the GPU for
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rendering enables optimizations that simply aren't possible in other emulators.
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Alacritty currently supports macOS, Linux, and Windows.
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<p align="center">
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<img width="600" alt="Alacritty running vim inside tmux" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4285147/21585004/2ebd0288-d06c-11e6-95d3-4a2889dbbd6f.png">
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</p>
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## About
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Alacritty is focused on simplicity and performance. The performance goal means
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it should be faster than any other terminal emulator available. The simplicity
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goal means that it doesn't have features such as tabs or splits (which can be
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better provided by a window manager or [terminal multiplexer][tmux]) nor
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niceties like a GUI config editor.
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The software is considered to be at an **alpha** level of readiness--there are
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missing features and bugs to be fixed, but it is already used by many as a daily
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driver.
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Precompiled binaries are available from the [GitHub releases page](https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/releases).
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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 short talk about Alacritty at the Rust Meetup January 2017](https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-january-2017/) (starts at 57:00)
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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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Some operating systems already provide binaries for Alacritty, for everyone else the instructions
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to build Alacritty from source can be found [here](INSTALL.md).
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### Arch Linux
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```sh
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pacman -S alacritty
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```
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### openSUSE Tumbleweed
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```sh
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zypper in alacritty
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```
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### Void Linux
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```sh
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xbps-install alacritty
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```
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### Gentoo Linux
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```sh
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emerge x11-terms/alacritty
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```
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### Mageia 7+
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```sh
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urpmi alacritty
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```
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### FreeBSD
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```sh
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pkg install alacritty
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```
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### NixOS
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```sh
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nix-env -iA nixos.alacritty
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```
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### Solus
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```sh
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eopkg install alacritty
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```
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### macOS
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```sh
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brew cask install alacritty
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```
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Once the cask is installed, it is recommended to setup the [manual page](INSTALL.md#manual-page),
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[shell completions](INSTALL.md#shell-completions), and [terminfo definitions](INSTALL.md#terminfo).
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### Windows
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#### Via [Scoop](https://scoop.sh)
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```batch
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scoop bucket add extras
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scoop install alacritty
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```
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### Other
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Prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows can be downloaded from the
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[GitHub releases page](https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/releases).
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To work properly on Windows, Alacritty requires winpty to emulate UNIX's PTY API.
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The agent is a single binary (`winpty-agent.exe`) which **must** be in the same
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directory as the Alacritty executable and is available through the
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[GitHub releases page](https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/releases).
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## Configuration
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Although it's possible the default configuration would work on your system,
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you'll probably end up wanting to customize it anyhow. There is a default
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`alacritty.yml` at the Git repository root. Alacritty looks for the
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configuration file at the following paths:
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1. `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml`
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2. `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.yml`
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3. `$HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml`
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4. `$HOME/.alacritty.yml`
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If none of these paths are found then
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`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml` is created once Alacritty is first
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run. On most systems this often defaults to
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`$HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml`.
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Many configuration options will take effect immediately upon saving changes to
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the config file. The only exception is the `font` and `dimensions` sections
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which requires Alacritty to be restarted. For further explanation of the config
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file, please consult the comments in the default config file.
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### Windows
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On Windows the config file is located at:
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`%APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml`
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## Issues (known, unknown, feature requests, etc.)
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If you run into a problem with Alacritty, please file an issue. If you've got a
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feature request, feel free to ask about it. Keep in mind that Alacritty is very
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much not looking to be a feature-rich terminal emulator with all sorts of bells
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and widgets. It's primarily a cross-platform, blazing fast `tmux` renderer that
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Just Works.
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## FAQ
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**_Is it really the fastest terminal emulator?_**
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In the terminals I've benchmarked against, Alacritty is either faster, WAY
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faster, or at least neutral. There are no benchmarks in which I've found
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Alacritty to be slower.
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**_macOS + tmux + vim is slow! I thought this was supposed to be fast!_**
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This appears to be an issue outside of terminal emulators; either macOS has an
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IPC performance issue, or either tmux or vim (or both) have a bug. This same
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issue can be seen in `iTerm2` and `Terminal.app`. I've found that if tmux is
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running on another machine which is connected to Alacritty via SSH, this issue
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disappears. Actual throughput and rendering performance are still better in
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Alacritty.
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**_My arrow keys don't work._**
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It sounds like you deleted some key bindings from your config file. Please
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reference the default config file to restore them.
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## IRC
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Alacritty discussion can be found in `#alacritty` on freenode.
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## Wayland
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Wayland support is available, but not everything works as expected. Many people
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have found a better experience using XWayland which can be achieved launching
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Alacritty with the `WAYLAND_DISPLAY` environment variable cleared:
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```sh
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env WAYLAND_DISPLAY= alacritty
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```
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If you're interested in seeing our Wayland support improve, please head over to
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the [Wayland meta issue] on the _winit_ project to see how you may contribute.
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## License
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Alacritty is released under the [Apache License, Version 2.0].
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[Apache License, Version 2.0]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/blob/master/LICENSE-APACHE
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[faq]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty#faq
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[tmux]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux
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[Wayland meta issue]: https://github.com/tomaka/winit/issues/306
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