Alacritty
Renders terminal sessions through OpenGL to offload text and graphics drawing to the GPU, with settings controlled by a TOML file
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| + | Vi Mode | Lets users navigate the viewport and scrollback buffer with vi-style keyboard motions, allowing text selection and clipboard copying without touching the mouse. |
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| + | Regex Hints | Detects patterns such as URLs in the terminal buffer using configurable regexes, enabling quick keyboard or mouse interaction with matched text. |
| + | Scrollback Search | Searches forward and backward through the scrollback buffer in normal or vi search modes, so users can quickly locate earlier terminal output. |
| + | Multi-Window | Runs multiple terminal windows from a single process instance, reducing per-window resource usage compared to launching separate instances. |
| + | GPU Rendering | Uses OpenGL to draw terminal text and graphics on the GPU, keeping the interface responsive during heavy or fast-scrolling output. |
| + | TOML Configuration | Reads settings from a single TOML file with live reload, letting users change fonts, colors, and key bindings without restarting the terminal. |
| + | IPC Control | Exposes an alacritty msg subcommand for retrieving config values and creating windows over inter-process messaging, enabling scripted control of a running instance. |
| + | Headless Daemon Mode | Runs as a background daemon via a --daemon flag, allowing new terminal windows to be spawned instantly without relaunching the full application each time. |
| - | No Tabs or Splits | Ships without built-in tabs or window splitting, forcing users to rely on a separate window manager or terminal multiplexer like tmux for that workflow. |
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System Requirements
| # | Minimum |
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| 1 | Windows 10 (version 1809 or higher, for ConPTY support) |
| 2 | OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible |
| # | Minimum |
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| 1 | macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later |
| 2 | OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible |
| # | Minimum |
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| 1 | OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible |
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