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Alacritty

This is not the latest version of Alacritty available.

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0.7.0 | Updated: 11 Jan 2021

Downloads:

57,128

Downloads of v 0.7.0:

259

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Joe Wilm

Alacritty 0.7.0

This is not the latest version of Alacritty available.

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This Package Contains an Exempted Check

Not All Tests Have Passed


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Exemption:

Package needs to be rebooted after VcRedist140 installed.

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

Details
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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Alacritty, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Alacritty, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Alacritty, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade alacritty -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'0.7.0'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade alacritty -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'0.7.0'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install alacritty
  win_chocolatey:
    name: alacritty
    version: '0.7.0'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'alacritty' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '0.7.0'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller alacritty
{
    Name     = "alacritty"
    Version  = "0.7.0"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'alacritty':
  ensure   => '0.7.0',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

NOTE

This package is likely a meta/virtual (*) or an installer (*.install) or portable (*.portable) application package.

  • Meta/virtual (*) - has a dependency on the *.install or the *.portable package - it is provided for discoverability and for other packages to take a dependency on.
  • Portable (*.portable/*.commandline (deprecated naming convention)/*.tool (deprecated naming convention)) - usually zips or archives that require no administrative access to install.
  • Install (*.install/*.app (deprecated naming convention)) - uses native installers, usually requires administrative access to install.

Learn more about chocolatey's distinction of installed versus portable apps and/or learn about this kind of package.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 11 Jan 2021.

Description

Alacritty - A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

About

Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but
allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other
applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to
provide a flexible set of features with high performance.
The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.

The software is considered to be at a beta level of readiness; there are
a few missing features and bugs to be fixed, but it is already used by many as
a daily driver.

Features

You can find an overview over the features available in Alacritty here.

Further information

Configuration

You can find the default configuration file with documentation for all available
fields on the GitHub releases page for each release.

Alacritty doesn't create the config file for you, but it looks for one in the
following locations:

  1. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml
  2. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.yml
  3. $HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
  4. $HOME/.alacritty.yml

Windows

On Windows, the config file should be located at:

%APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml

Contributing

A guideline about contributing to Alacritty can be found in the
CONTRIBUTING.md file.

FAQ

Is it really the fastest terminal emulator?

Benchmarking terminal emulators is complicated. Alacritty uses
vtebench to quantify terminal emulator
throughput and manages to consistently score better than the competition using
it. If you have found an example where this is not the case, please report a
bug.

Other aspects like latency or framerate and frame consistency are more difficult
to quantify. Some terminal emulators also intentionally slow down to save
resources, which might be preferred by some users.

If you have doubts about Alacritty's performance or usability, the best way to
quantify terminal emulators is always to test them with your specific
usecases.

Why isn't feature X implemented?

Alacritty has many great features, but not every feature from every other
terminal. This could be for a number of reasons, but sometimes it's just not a
good fit for Alacritty. This means you won't find things like tabs or splits
(which are best left to a window manager or [terminal multiplexer][tmux]) nor
niceties like a GUI config editor.

IRC

Alacritty discussions can be found in #alacritty on freenode.


Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Alacritty 0.13.1 1096 Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Approved
Alacritty 0.13.1-rc1 51 Sunday, January 7, 2024 Approved
Alacritty 0.13.0 1052 Tuesday, January 9, 2024 Approved
Alacritty 0.13.0-rc2 19 Tuesday, January 2, 2024 Approved
Alacritty 0.13.0-rc1 28 Sunday, December 17, 2023 Approved
Alacritty 0.12.3 1552 Monday, October 23, 2023 Approved
Alacritty 0.12.3-rc1 31 Sunday, October 8, 2023 Approved
Alacritty 0.12.2 637 Tuesday, October 3, 2023 Approved
Alacritty 0.12.2-rc1 71 Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Approved
Alacritty 0.12.1 1482 Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Approved
Alacritty 0.12.0 2176 Monday, March 27, 2023 Approved
Alacritty 0.11.0 2593 Saturday, October 15, 2022 Approved
Alacritty 0.10.1 3371 Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Approved
Alacritty 0.10.0 1131 Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Approved
Alacritty 0.9.0 3432 Sunday, August 8, 2021 Approved
Alacritty 0.8.0 2234 Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Approved
Alacritty 0.7.2 2297 Thursday, March 4, 2021 Approved
Alacritty 0.7.1 1782 Tuesday, January 12, 2021 Approved
Alacritty 0.7.0 259 Monday, January 11, 2021 Approved
Alacritty 0.6.0 1602 Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Approved
Alacritty 0.5.0 2918 Monday, August 3, 2020 Approved
Alacritty 0.4.3.20200606 3205 Saturday, June 6, 2020 Approved
Alacritty 0.4.2.20200403 3906 Saturday, April 4, 2020 Approved
Alacritty 0.4.1 4032 Thursday, January 23, 2020 Approved
Alacritty 0.4.1-rc3 164 Thursday, January 23, 2020 Approved
Alacritty 0.4.0 2276 Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.4.0-rc5 184 Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.4.0-rc4 173 Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.4.0-rc3 184 Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.4.0-rc2 161 Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.3.3 4346 Thursday, June 20, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.3.3-rc2 215 Thursday, June 20, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.3.3-rc1 162 Thursday, June 20, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.3.2 2101 Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.3.1 635 Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.3.0 1004 Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.3.0-rc3 240 Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Exempted
Alacritty 0.3.0-rc2 196 Tuesday, April 2, 2019 Exempted
Alacritty 0.3.0-rc1 186 Tuesday, April 2, 2019 Exempted
Alacritty 0.2.9 955 Monday, March 18, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.2.8 222 Monday, March 18, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.2.7 314 Thursday, March 14, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.2.6 213 Thursday, March 14, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.2.5 234 Thursday, March 14, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.2.4 406 Friday, March 1, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.2.3 196 Thursday, February 28, 2019 Approved
Alacritty 0.2.1 360 Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Approved

Added

  • Support for ~/ at the beginning of configuration file imports

  • New cursor.style.blinking option to set the default blinking state

  • New cursor.blink_interval option to configure the blinking frequency

  • Support for cursor blinking escapes (CSI ? 12 h, CSI ? 12 l and CSI Ps SP q)

  • IME support on Windows

  • Urgency support on Windows

  • Customizable keybindings for search

  • History for search mode, bound to ^P/^N/Up/Down by default

  • Default binding to cancel search on Ctrl+C

  • History position indicator for search and vi mode

Changed

  • Nonexistent config imports are ignored instead of raising an error

  • Value for disabling logging with config.log_level is Off instead of None

  • Missing glyph symbols are no longer drawn for zerowidth characters

Fixed

  • Wide characters sometimes being cut off

  • Preserve vi mode across terminal reset

  • Escapes CSI Ps b and CSI Ps Z with large parameters locking up Alacritty

  • Dimming colors which use the indexed CSI 38 : 5 : Ps m notation

  • Slow rendering performance with a lot of cells with underline/strikeout attributes

  • Performance of scrolling regions with offset from the bottom

  • Extra mouse buttons are no longer ignored on Wayland

  • Numpad arrow keys are now properly recognized on Wayland

  • Compilation when targetting aarch64-apple-darwin

  • Window not being completely opaque on Windows

  • Window being always on top during alt-tab on Windows

  • Cursor position not reported to apps when mouse is moved with button held outside of window

  • No live config update when starting Alacritty with a broken configuration file

  • PTY not drained to the end with the --hold flag enabled

  • High CPU usage on BSD with live config reload enabled

  • Alacritty not discarding invalid escape sequences starting with ESC

  • Crash due to clipboard not being properly released on Wayland

  • Shadow artifacts when resizing transparent windows on macOS

  • Missing glyph symbols not being rendered for missing glyphs on macOS and Windows

  • Underline cursor being obscured by underline

  • Cursor not being rendered with a lot of unicode glyphs visible

  • IME input swallowed after triggering a key binding

  • Crash on Wayland due to non-standard fontconfig configuration

  • Search without vi mode not jumping properly between all matches

Removed

  • The following CLI arguments have been removed in favor of the --option flag:

    • --persistent-logging

    • --live-config-reload

    • --no-live-config-reload

    • --dimensions

    • --position

  • live-shader-reload feature

  • Config option dynamic_title, you should use window.dynamic_title instead

  • Config option scrolling.faux_multiplier, which was replaced by escape CSI ? 1007 h/l

  • WinPTY support on Windows

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