Alacritty is a free and open source terminal emulator written in Rust. It is cross-platform and supports GNU/Linux, BSD, MacOS and Windows. It uses GPU acc. Once installed, all you have to do is run alacritty-themes. Choose the theme from the list of options by typing the theme name and press Enter to apply. You can also navigate with j and k keys for up/down. The list of options are cycled through automatically so you can go to the last theme by just pressing up arrow key.
Alacritty is a free and open source terminal emulator for Linux, Windows and BSD. It uses GPU for rendering to increase its speed. It comes with vi mode with mimic vi cursor motion, selections and copy text to the clipboard and open URLs. Some other features are Vi search and normal search. It is written in Rust and released under Apache License 2.0. It is a simple but fastest and powerful terminal emulator. It supports true color and standard 16 ANSI colors. You can configure Alacritty by editing a template file in YAML format.
Install Alacritty Terminal Emulator on Ubuntu
Alacritty is available via the official Ubuntu PPA. You can install it via the terminal application. Open the terminal app (ctrl+alt+t) and run below command to add its PPA.
If needed enter your Ubuntu user password and press the enter key to confirm the PPA Addiction. Then run below command.
Install Alacritty Ubuntu
After that run alacritty Terminal Emulator installation command.
Alacritty Mac
After the installation of alacritty, you can open it via below command.
Install Alacritty Arch
That’s it.
Alacritty Windows 10
