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Alacritty
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[](https://travis-ci.org/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 and Linux, and Windows support is planned
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before the 1.0 release.
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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 many features like tabs or scroll back as in
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other terminals. Instead, it is expected that users of Alacritty make use of a
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terminal multiplexer such as [`tmux`](https://github.com/tmux/tmux).
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This initial release should be considered to be **pre-alpha** software--it will
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have issues. Once Alacritty reaches an alpha level of readiness, precompiled
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binaries will be provided for supported operating systems.
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## Blog Posts
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- [Announcing Alacritty, a GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator](http://blog.jwilm.io/announcing-alacritty/) January 6, 2017
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## Installation
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The only supported installation method at this time is from source. Proper
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installers will be added prior to the 1.0 release of Alacritty. This section
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will walk you through how to build from source on both macOS and Ubuntu.
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### Prerequisites
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1. Install [`rustup.rs`](https://rustup.rs/)
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2. Clone the source code:
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```sh
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git clone https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
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cd alacritty
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```
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3. Make sure you have the right Rust compiler installed. Alacritty requires nightly Rust. Run
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```sh
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rustup override set nightly
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```
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If you run into problems, you can try a known-good version of the compiler by running
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```sh
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rustup override set $(<rustc-version)
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```
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#### Additional Linux Prerequisites
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##### Ubuntu
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On Ubuntu, you need a few extra libraries to build Alacritty. Here's an `apt`
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command that should install all of them. If something is still found to be
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missing, please open an issue.
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```sh
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apt-get install cmake libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev xclip
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```
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##### Arch Linux
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On Arch Linux, you need a few extra libraries to build Alacritty. Here's a
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`pacman` command that should install all of them. If something is still found
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to be missing, please open an issue.
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```sh
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pacman -S cmake freetype2 fontconfig xclip
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```
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##### Fedora
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On Fedora, you need a few extra libraries to build Alacritty. Here's a `dnf`
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command that should install all of them. If something is still found to be
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missing, please open an issue.
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```sh
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dnf install freetype-devel fontconfig-devel xclip
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```
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##### openSUSE
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On openSUSE, you need a few extra libraries to build Alacritty. Here's
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a `zypper` command that should install all of them. If something is
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still found to be missing, please open an issue.
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```sh
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zypper install freetype-devel fontconfig-devel xclip
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```
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##### Void Linux
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On [Void Linux](https://voidlinux.eu), install following packages before compiling Alacritty:
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```sh
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xbps-install cmake freetype-devel freetype expat-devel fontconfig xclip
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```
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##### Other
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If you build Alacritty on another Linux distribution, we would love some help
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filling in this section of the README.
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### Building
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Once all the prerequisites are installed, compiling Alacritty should be easy:
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```sh
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cargo build --release
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```
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If all goes well, this should place a binary at `target/release/alacritty`.
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**BEFORE YOU RUN IT:** Install the config file as described below; otherwise,
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many things (such as arrow keys) would not work. If you're on macOS, you'll need
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to change the `monospace` font family to something like `Menlo`.
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### Desktop Entry
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Many linux distributions support desktop entries for adding applications to
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system menus. To install the desktop entry for Alacritty, run
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```sh
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sudo cp target/release/alacritty /usr/local/bin # or anywhere else in $PATH
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cp Alacritty.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
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```
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### Configuration
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Although it's possible the default configuration would work on your system,
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you'll probably end up wanting to customize it anyhow. There is an
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`alacritty.yml` at the git repository root. Copy this to either
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`$HOME/.alacritty.yml` or `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.yml` and run Alacritty.
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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 `dpi` section which
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requires Alacritty to be restarted. For further explanation of the config file,
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please consult the comments in the default config file.
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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?_ In the terminals I've
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benchmarked against, alacritty is either faster, WAY faster, or at least
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neutral. There are no benchmarks in which I've found Alacritty to be slower.
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- _It's not fast! Why?_ There's a known bug affecting some versions of
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Mesa/libxcb where calls to glClear take an insanely long time. If it's not
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that, there's probably another bug. I'd be happy to look at the issue if you
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can provide some profiling information (wall time and otherwise).
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- _macOS + tmux + vim is slow! I thought this was supposed to be fast!_ This
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appears to be an issue outside of terminal emulators; either macOS has an IPC
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performance issue, or either tmux or vim (or both) have a bug. This same issue
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can be seen in `iTerm2` and `Terminal.app`. I've found that if tmux is running
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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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- _Is wayland supported?_ Not yet. Alacritty is currently on a fork of glutin
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that needs some updates to work with Wayland. To stop glutin from detecting
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Wayland (e.g. for use on XWayland) launch Alacritty like this:
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`env WAYLAND_DISPLAY= alacritty`
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- _When will Windows support be available?_ When someone has time to work on it.
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Contributors would be welcomed :).
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- _My arrow keys don't work_. It sounds like you deleted some key bindings from
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your config file. Please reference the default config file to restore them.
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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/readme/LICENSE-APACHE
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