ALACRITTY

NAME

Alacritty - A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

SYNOPSIS

alacritty [SUBCOMMANDS] [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance.

FLAGS

-h, --help

Prints help information

--print-events

Print all events to stdout

--ref-test

Generates ref test

-V, --version

Prints version information

OPTIONS

--class <general> | <general>,<instance>

Defines the window class hint on Linux [default: Alacritty,Alacritty]

When only the general class is passed, instance will be set to the same value.

On Wayland the general class sets the ’app_id’, while the instance class is ignored.

-e, --command <command>...

Command and args to execute (must be last argument)

--config-file <config-file>

Specify alternative configuration file

Alacritty looks for the configuration file at the following paths:
1. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml
2. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.yml
3. $HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
4. $HOME/.alacritty.yml

On Windows, the configuration file is located at %APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml.

--embed <parent>

X11 window ID to embed Alacritty within (decimal or hexadecimal with "0x" prefix)

-o, --option <option>...

Override configuration file options [example: cursor.style=Beam]

--socket <socket>

Path for IPC socket creation

-T, --title <title>

Defines the window title [default: Alacritty]

--working-directory <working-directory>

Start the shell in the specified working directory

SUBCOMMANDS

SEE ALSO

See the alacritty github repository at https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty for the full documentation.

BUGS

Found a bug? Please report it at https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues.

MAINTAINERS

• Christian Duerr <contact AT christianduerr DOT com>

• Joe Wilm <joe AT jwilm DOT com>