Alacritty is a fast, no-frills terminal emulator. It renders every frame on the GPU, has no tabs, no splits, and a minimal TOML config — relying on tmux / zellij for multiplexing.

Design

Alacritty's thesis: do one thing (draw glyphs fast) and leave multiplexing to purpose-built tools. The config is a single alacritty.toml with live-reload, and the rendering stack is OpenGL on desktop plus Metal / DirectX on macOS / Windows.

Install

Brew

$ brew install --cask alacritty

Features

Config fileTrue color

Terminal features

GPU acceleratedOSC 8 hyperlinks

Media

Pros

Cross-platform support for BSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows
High performance due to integration with other applications
Extensive configuration options
Vi mode for navigation and selection
Built-in search functionality

Cons

Considered beta level, with some missing features and bugs

Terminal capabilities

GPU accelerated
True color
Sixel: —
Kitty graphics: —
iTerm2 images: —
Font ligatures: —
Styled underlines
OSC 52 clipboard
OSC 8 hyperlinks
Kitty keyboard
Synchronized output
Shell integration: —
Tabs: —
Split panes: —
Dropdown mode: —
Built-in multiplexer: —
Wayland compatible

Config formattoml

Alacritty

Alacritty is a fast, no-frills terminal emulator. It renders every frame on the GPU, has no tabs, no splits, and a minimal TOML config — relying on tmux / zellij for multiplexing.

Design

Install

Features

Terminal features

Media

Pros

Cons

Terminal capabilities

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