Questions tagged [alacritty]
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How to support undercurl in alacritty for windows?
I installed alacritty version 0.13.0-dev (2df8f860) for windows and I am trying to get undercurl to be supported in the terminal. If I enter wsl, and then try echo -e "\e[4:3mTEST", the expected output should be for TEST to have a curly underline,…

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How to do proper performance testing and analysis of alacritty and zsh
I've been working with my setup lately and have been trying to determine where my 2.3s terminal load times have been coming from. I'm fairly new to linux performance testing in general but I have determined a few things.
The first thing I should…

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How to map Ctrl+Shift+ in Neovim + Tmux in Alacritty
I use neovim with tmux in alacritty and I'm currently tring to create keymaps to the combinations and ( and are already mapped), but I can't get it to work when running tmux.
I've already followed this tutorial, but it…

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Correct keybindings configuration for zsh in Alacritty
in alacritty.yml I have the following keybindings that work fine for Bash
key_bindings:
- { key: V, mods: Control, action: Paste, mode: ~AppCursor }
- { key: C, mods: Control, action: Copy, mode: ~AppCursor }
- { key: Q, mods: Control, action:…

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Docker container stops but won't return to shell
So I have my containers running with docker-compose up --build.
They were running fine. But when I stop them (with either Ctrl-C or killall docker-compose), my containers stops but the terminal won't go back to the normal prompt.
Tried to google but…

Le Hai Ninh
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VS Code error: The terminal process failed to launch: Path to shell executable "zsh" is not a file or a symlink
I'm having this problem everytime I ctrl + j to open the integrated terminal. I'm on Arch using with ZSH and my default terminal is Alacritty.
My current settings.json file is:
{
"workbench.colorTheme": "Dracula",
"redhat.telemetry.enabled":…

Felipe
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How to run a piped function on start for alacritty?
I want to run tmuxp $(ls | fzf) on starting alacritty, is that possible? I am sure I have to change the program and args key in alacritty.yml, but it just doesn't work.
This is my current config:
shell:
program: tmuxp
args:
- $(ls |…

John Winston
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how to add padding to my alacritty terminal in awesomeWM
So, Im slowly learning lua, awesomewm, and how to configure my os. Now I have a beautiful terminal, but it has no padding, so characters basically touch the edge and its not very aesthetic. Im not sure if I should configure my rc.lua (awesomewm…

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Alacritty Cargo installation error: crossfont no binary and error: attributes are not yet allowed on `if` expressions
When installing the alacritty terminal on debian with cargo I get this error:
And when running cargo install crossfont I get this error:
Please help. Oh yeah btw I am running debian just so you know.

Mr Snad Man
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Vim crashes whenever I try to quit
So when I have a split open with a separate file, and when I do :q on any split it immediately crashes my Vim/terminal (They both crash, I think). But when I don't have a split open, I can :q just fine without any issues. I'm not to sure what to do…

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Alacritty font rendering
[Initial] I installed alacritty on Ubuntu 20.04 without a problem, by simply installing cargo and then running this script.
[Root Cause] Wanting easier theme juggling, I looked up utilities for this purpose and found this one. After installing a…

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How can I create a keyboard shortcut for VS Code to open a new external terminal?
I want to change the terminal for a better presentation of my project, so I don't want to use the integrated VS Code terminal, I would like to use my system's own terminal which is Alacritty (I'm using linux)
I've been changing the settings in…

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How to use custom fonts in alacritty without installing them
Im trying to have portable Alacritty with custom font, is there any way i can use my custom font without installing it? For example, with the path of the .ttf file
It worked with the installed fonts, but when i try it with the path, it doesn't find…

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Neovim colorscheme flickers momentarily in tmux when opening C/C++ files
The weird thing only happens when I open a C/C++ file. What I doing wrong here?
The moment when .cpp file open up.
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About 0.1 sec later.
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The version of related app and os.
nvim…

David
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Setup a key binding to copy window content
I'm having trouble setting up a key binding to copy the content of the terminal window.
So far, the best I've got is
key_bindings:
# copy window content with F2
- { key: F2, mode: ~Search, action: ToggleViMode }
- {…

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