Software:Alacritty
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| Original author(s) | Joe Wilm[1] |
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| Developer(s) | Kirill Chibisov, Christian Dürr[2] |
| Platform | x86-64, IA-32 |
| Website | alacritty |
Alacritty is a free and open-source GPU-accelerated terminal emulator focused on performance and simplicity. Consequently, it does not support tabs or splits and is configured by editing a text file. It is written in Rust and uses OpenGL (for performance).[3][4][5] A similar terminal emulator that uses OpenGL is kitty.
History
Joe Wilm announced Alacritty in his blog on 6 January 2017. He describes it as "the result of frustration with existing terminal emulators. Using vim inside tmux in many terminals was a particularly bad experience. None of them were ever quite fast enough". He found urxvt and st difficult to configure and criticized their "inability to run on non-X11 platforms".[1]
With the release of version 0.2.0 in September 2018 Alacritty gained support for scrollback.[6]
In version 0.3.0, released in April 2019, Alacritty entered beta stage and support for Windows, text reflow, and clicking on URLs was added.[7]
In version 0.5.0, released in July 2020, a mode with vi keybindings for searching and copying text was added.[8]
In version 0.6.0, released in November 2020, a new binding to cancel search and leave vi mode was added.[9]
Features
Alacritty supports true color in addition to the standard 16 ANSI colors.[10]
Alacritty explicitly does not support tabs or splits because similar functionality can be achieved with a terminal multiplexer or window manager.[11][12]
Configuration
Alacritty is configured by editing a template file in TOML format.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilm, Joe (2017-01-06). "Announcing Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator". https://jwilm.io/blog/announcing-alacritty/.
- ↑ "Alacritty Open Source Project on Open Hub: Contributions Listing Page". https://www.openhub.net/p/alacritty/contributors.
- ↑ Senthil Kumar Palani (2019-10-29). "Alacritty – A Lightweight And Blazingly Fast Terminal Emulator" (in en-US). https://ostechnix.com/alacritty-a-lightweight-and-blazingly-fast-terminal-emulator/.
- ↑ angeloma17 (2020-03-18). "Alacritty the fastest terminal emulator for Linux" (in en-US). https://www.osradar.com/alacritty-the-fastest-terminal-emulator-for-linux/.
- ↑ Morelo, David. "Top 7 Best Linux Terminals – Linux Hint" (in en-US). https://linuxhint.com/best_7_linux_terminals/.
- ↑ Wilm, Joe (2018-09-17). "Alacritty now supports scrollback". https://jwilm.io/blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/.
- ↑ Dürr, Christian (2019-04-07). "Alacritty Version 0.3.0 Release". https://blog.christianduerr.com/alacritty_030_announcement.
- ↑ Dürr, Christian (2020-07-31). "Alacritty Version 0.5.0 Release". https://blog.christianduerr.com/alacritty_0_5_0_announcement.html.
- ↑ "Release Alacritty Version 0.6.0" (in en). https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.6.0.
- ↑ Beaupré, Antoine (2018-03-30). "A look at terminal emulators, part 1". https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/.
- ↑ "GitHub - alacritty/Alacritty at v0.4.3". https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/tree/v0.4.3#faq.
- ↑ Kili, Aaron (2020-06-05). "Alacritty – A Fastest Terminal Emulator for Linux". https://www.tecmint.com/alacritty-fastest-terminal-emulator-for-linux/.
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