alacritty Command Examples

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

• Open a new Alacritty window:

alacritty

• Run in a specific directory:

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

• [e]xecute a command in a new Alacritty 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}}