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alacritty — Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. More information: <https://manned.org/alacritty>.

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Problem

How to use the alacritty command: Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. More information: <https://manned.org/alacritty>.

Solution

alacritty — Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. More information: <https://manned.org/alacritty>.

Start a new Alacritty process and create a window:

alacritty

Start the Alacritty daemon (without creating a window):

alacritty --daemon

Create a new window using the already running Alacritty process:

alacritty msg create-window

Start the shell in a specific directory (also works with alacritty msg create-window):

alacritty --working-directory {{path/to/directory}}

Execute a command in a new Alacritty window (also works with alacritty msg create-window):

alacritty {{[-e|--command]}} {{command}}

Use an alternative configuration file (defaults to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.toml):

alacritty --config-file {{path/to/config.toml}}

Code Snippets

Start a new Alacritty process and create a window

alacritty

Start the Alacritty daemon (without creating a window)

alacritty --daemon

Create a new window using the already running Alacritty process

alacritty msg create-window

Start the shell in a specific directory (also works with `alacritty msg create-window`)

alacritty --working-directory {{path/to/directory}}

Execute a command in a new Alacritty window (also works with `alacritty msg create-window`)

alacritty {{[-e|--command]}} {{command}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/alacritty

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