alacritty

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

alacritty [SUBCOMMANDS] [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

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.