ALACRITTY

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: August 2018
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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
--hold
Remain open after child process exits
--print-events
Print all events to stdout
-q
Reduces the level of verbosity (the min level is -qq)
--ref-test
Generates ref test
-v
Increases the level of verbosity (the max level is -vvv)
-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

msg
Available socket messages
 

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@christianduerr.com>

• Joe Wilm <joe@jwilm.com>

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FLAGS
OPTIONS
SUBCOMMANDS
SEE ALSO
BUGS
MAINTAINERS
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