alacritty Command Examples

Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. More information: https://manned.org/alacritty.

• Start a new Alacritty process and create a window:

alacritty

• Start the Alacritty daemon (without creating a window):

alacritty --daemon

• Create a new window using the already running Alacritty process:

alacritty msg create-window

• Start the shell in a specific directory (also works with alacritty msg create-window):

alacritty --working-directory {{path/to/directory}}

• [e]xecute a command in a new Alacritty window (also works with alacritty msg create-window):

alacritty {{[-e|--command]}} {{command}}

• Use an alternative configuration file (defaults to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.toml):

alacritty --config-file {{path/to/config.toml}}

• Run with live configuration reload enabled (can also be enabled by default in alacritty.toml):

alacritty --live-config-reload --config-file {{path/to/config.toml}}