alacritty Command Examples
Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. More information: https://github.com/alacritty/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}}
- 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}}