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• alacritty-msg(1)
• alacritty(1)
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Manual

ALACRITTY

NAME
SYNOPSIS
FLAGS
OPTIONS
SUBCOMMANDS
SEE ALSO
BUGS
MAINTAINERS

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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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.

--daemon

Do not spawn an initial window.

--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.

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.

Default: Alacritty,Alacritty

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

Command and args to execute (must be last argument).

--config-file <CONFIG_FILE>

Specify alternative configuration file.

Alacritty doesn’t create the config file for you, but it looks for one in the following locations on UNIX systems:

	1.		$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.toml
	2.		$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.toml
	3.		$HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml
	4.		$HOME/.alacritty.toml

On Windows, the config file will be looked for in:

1.

%APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.toml

--embed <PARENT>

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

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

Override configuration file options.

Example: alacritty -o ’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

Send IPC socket messages (see alacritty-msg (1)).

migrate

Migrate the configuration file.

-c, --config-file <CONFIG_FILE>

Path to the configuration file.

-d, --dry-run

Only output TOML config to STDOUT.

-i, --skip-imports

Do not recurse over imports.

--skip-renames

Do not move renamed fields to their new location.

-s, --silent

Do not output to STDOUT.

-h, --help

Print help information.

SEE ALSO

alacritty-msg (1), alacritty (5), alacritty-bindings (5)

BUGS

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

MAINTAINERS

	•		Christian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com>
	•		Kirill Chibisov <contact@kchibisov.com>

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