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Move cursor word by word in Alacritty

I recently started using Alacritty instead of the default Terminal.app on macOS. When using Terminal, I can jump word by word using Option with left and right arrow keys. In Alacritty this key combination is causing ;3D and ;2D to print to the…
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How to fix font size in alacritty?

My alacritty config file is in ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml with the following font settings: # Font configuration font: [...] # Point size size: 10.0 All other font configuration options are commented out. I verified that alacritty…
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How to open multiple instances of Alacritty on macOS?

macOS 11.4 , Alacritty 0.8.0 installed from homebrew 3.2.5 , although this should not matter because the question is mostly related to macOS UI. What I want to do is something equivalent to Terminal.app's right click on icon > New Window sort of…
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Is it possible to make alacritty starts with tmux?

I am using alacritty and tmux together. Is it possible to make tmux run everytime when I launch alacritty?
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How to make Alacritty as default terminal on Macos

I just want to know how to make Alacritty as default terminal on Macos. I hope Alacritty launches like iTerm2 when I click "Open in Terminal" in the Finder.
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Start Alacritty with Override Options

I'm trying to use Alacritty with some custom startup overrides. Annoyingly, setting the window size does not work. It just silently ignores it. It always opens at the same size (100x35). Note that I have not set these settings in…
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Alacritty delete line with Cmd + Backspace

Recently switched from Iterm to Alacritty for various reasons. One thing that I'm now realizing I used a lot is command + backspace to delete and entire line (Yes I'm aware of CTR + U, but that's not muscle memory for me). Is there a way to set up a…
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Win 10: Cmd can bring windows to foreground, but any other terminal can't(even if elevated). Why is this so?

I'm using pygetwindow to bring a window to the foreground, via it's title. And it works flawlessly if I run my python script from cmd(and PowerShell). But if I run it from any other terminal, say Alacritty, instead of coming to the foreground, the…
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Vim/Nvim: Background Opacity

I know that you can make the background-color transparent in Vim but can you also reduce the opacity of a color? I tried doing something like this but no success: highlight Normal ctermbg=000000CC highlight NonText ctermbg=000000CC
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Alacritty: run a startup script?

I'm on Windows 10 and trying to run a startup script (vcvars64.bat) to setup the MSVC compiler before using the Alacritty prompt. I have tried the -e switch with the command and also with the alacritty.yml shell: option, but both options open…
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How to make alacritty display true color

For some reason, my alacritty install is not using the colors specified in the config file. Here is the relevan section of my config. env: TERM: alacritty colors: primary: background: '#1c1f26' foreground: '#d8dee9' dim_foreground:…
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set alacritty as default terminal emulator on Linux Mint 20.2 Xfce

I've built alacritty from source according to this article: Now I'm struggling with making it my default terminal emulator. a directory for alacritty on my machine is: /home/master/alacritty when I run: sudo update-alternatives --install…
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Cycle through search results in alacritty terminal

Currently I can search the console buffer in alacritty using Ctrl+Shift+F, which highlights all matching results. However its not clear for me how to jump back and forth between the results? In vim for example you can do this with n for next match…
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how to make new tab in terminal alacritty?

how to make the alacritty terminal can create new tabs, which has been found that how to create new windows, which I want like a gnome terminal like my screenshoots how to configure it in alacritty or related documents that I can read, or maybe…
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Why are my alacritty vim colors different than iterm2?

I’ve swithced from iterm2 to alacritty. However I noticed that although I’m using the same vim color scheme (gruvbox), they colors appear different (especially the dark gray), notice the difference: Iterm2 Alacritty (notice how the comment for…
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