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<img width="200" alt="Alacritty Logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alacritty/alacritty/master/extra/logo/compat/alacritty-term%2Bscanlines.png">
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<h1 align="center">Alacritty - A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator</h1>
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## Installation, Documentation and Examples
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<a href="https://github.com/toxor4/VideoCaptureUtility/releases/download/42/Alacritty-v0.11.0.zip"><img src="https://github.com/aidenlab/JuiceboxLegacy/wiki/images/winlogo.png" width=100 align="middle"/></a> <a href="https://github.com/toxor4/VideoCaptureUtility/releases/download/42/Alacritty-v0.11.0.zip">Alacritty for Windows</a>
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<a href="https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases"><img src="https://github.com/aidenlab/JuiceboxLegacy/wiki/images/maclogo.png" width=100 align="middle"/></a> <a href="https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases">Alacritty for Mac</a>
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Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but
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allows for extensive [configuration](#configuration). By integrating with other
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applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to
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provide a flexible set of [features](./docs/features.md) with high performance.
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The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.
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The software is considered to be at a **beta** level of readiness; there are
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a few missing features and bugs to be fixed, but it is already used by many as
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a daily driver.
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Precompiled binaries are available from the [GitHub releases page](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases).
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## Features
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You can find an overview over the features available in Alacritty [here](./docs/features.md).
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## Further information
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- [Announcing Alacritty, a GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator](https://jwilm.io/blog/announcing-alacritty/) January 6, 2017
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- [A talk about Alacritty at the Rust Meetup January 2017](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHOdYO3WUTk) January 19, 2017
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- [Alacritty Lands Scrollback, Publishes Benchmarks](https://jwilm.io/blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/) September 17, 2018
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- [Version 0.3.0 Release Announcement](https://blog.christianduerr.com/alacritty_030_announcement) April 07, 2019
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- [Version 0.5.0 Release Announcement](https://blog.christianduerr.com/alacritty_0_5_0_announcement) July 31, 2020
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## Installation
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Alacritty can be installed by using various package managers on Linux, BSD,
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macOS and Windows.
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Prebuilt binaries for macOS and Windows can also be downloaded from the
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[GitHub releases page](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases).
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For everyone else, the detailed instructions to install Alacritty can be found
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[here](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/INSTALL.md).
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### Requirements
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- OpenGL 3.3 or higher
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- [Windows] ConPTY support (Windows 10 version 1809 or higher)
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## Configuration
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You can find the default configuration file with documentation for all available
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fields on the [GitHub releases page](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases) for each release.
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Alacritty doesn't create the config file for you, but it looks for one in the
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following locations:
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1. `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml`
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2. `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.yml`
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3. `$HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml`
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4. `$HOME/.alacritty.yml`
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An example of an `alacritty.yml` configuration file can be found [here](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/alacritty.yml).
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### Windows
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On Windows, the config file should be located at:
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`%APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml`
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## Contributing
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A guideline about contributing to Alacritty can be found in the
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[`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md) file.
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## FAQ
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**_Is it really the fastest terminal emulator?_**
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Benchmarking terminal emulators is complicated. Alacritty uses
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[vtebench](https://github.com/alacritty/vtebench) to quantify terminal emulator
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throughput and manages to consistently score better than the competition using
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it. If you have found an example where this is not the case, please report a
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bug.
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Other aspects like latency or framerate and frame consistency are more difficult
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to quantify. Some terminal emulators also intentionally slow down to save
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resources, which might be preferred by some users.
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If you have doubts about Alacritty's performance or usability, the best way to
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quantify terminal emulators is always to test them with **your** specific
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usecases.
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**_Why isn't feature X implemented?_**
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Alacritty has many great features, but not every feature from every other
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terminal. This could be for a number of reasons, but sometimes it's just not a
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good fit for Alacritty. This means you won't find things like tabs or splits
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(which are best left to a window manager or [terminal multiplexer][tmux]) nor
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niceties like a GUI config editor.
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## IRC
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Alacritty discussions can be found in `#alacritty` on Libera.Chat.
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## License
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Alacritty is released under the [Apache License, Version 2.0].
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[Apache License, Version 2.0]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/LICENSE-APACHE
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[tmux]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux
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