alacritty
A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. (by alacritty)
iTerm2-Color-Schemes
Over 400 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty, Ghostty, and many more (by mbadolato)
| alacritty | iTerm2-Color-Schemes | |
|---|---|---|
| 370 | 17 | |
| 59,163 | 25,712 | |
| 1.2% | 0.6% | |
| 8.6 | 8.9 | |
| 19 days ago | 13 days ago | |
| Rust | Shell | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
alacritty
Posts with mentions or reviews of alacritty.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-20.
- Why your terminal is boring and what to use instead
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Building Debian packages from source in bootstrapped Debian
Terminal emulator Alacritty, for instance. The version in the Debian Stable repo is dated— Alacritty of this version uses a .yml config file, but newer versions have switched to .toml.
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Exploring Rust: A Rubyist's Perspective
Rust is one of the most appreciated programming languages, as highlighted in the GitHub Octoverse Survey. It offers memory safety, high performance, and strong tooling, making it a solid choice for both small utilities and large-scale applications. Many of the tools I use daily, like Alacritty and 1Password, benefit from Rust's speed and reliability.
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Switching from tmux to Zellij
That's it! Happy CLI mastery with Zellij, Oh My zsh and Alacritty!
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Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
I don't want to learn tmux to handle a feature that my OS already handles. If alacritty supported tabs (and was slightly less hostile, e.g. [0]) I'd be happy with it
[0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3129
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From iTerm To WezTerm
I also tried Alacritty, but it is very basic and lacks the features I need. Recently, I tested Ghostty, which has gained huge attention – it has nice defaults, but its RAM usage is concerning (around 250MB per empty tab). Currently, it also lacks buffer search, which makes the terminal useless for me.
- 3 years old PR to Alacritty for Support for graphics remains open
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Ghostty 1.0
That's a great approach.
Not sure on the current state of Alacritty, but a few years back the suggested solution for users interested in battery performance was to switch a different terminal emulator: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3473#issuecomm...
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Preview images, videos, fonts, PDFs ... in Vifm.
The terminal I am currently using is st but I have also tested this "Vifm" enhancement in kitty and alacritty.
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Faking the tmux experience on Windows using AutoHotkey
I chose Alacritty for this. Why? Because it's written in Rust. Is there any other reason? It also has a pretty simple and has an easy to understand settings page and uses TOML. It also has built in support for vi motions. All wins. It's pretty easy to install as well, just follow the link above. I went with the portable version. Just make sure you note where it is going to look for the configuration files.
iTerm2-Color-Schemes
Posts with mentions or reviews of iTerm2-Color-Schemes.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-08.
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Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code
I took a recent go at designing a good terminal color scheme and ended up with:
https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes#aardvark-b...
The goal of this theme is that:
colors are fairly natural - What is the best alternative to guake terminal in macOS with the most closed-in look and functionality?
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"Mappings to move lines" on (Gnome-)Terminal
Script for changing/testing terminal colors: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes
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nvim-tundra - A punchy, dark colorscheme for Neovim!
FWIW, if you submit your iterm2 colors to https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes you get many terminals "for free".
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My personal setup for a new terminal as a Ruby on Rails + iOS + Flutter Engineer
Install iterm2 themes
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long time monokai lover.. are there better alternatives out there?
I’ve been a fan of Mark Badolato’s collection of themes. Do check them out here, if you haven’t already: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes
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Set up Terminal on Mac 2022
cd Downloads wget https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/archive/refs/heads/master.zip unzip master.zip
- I need help, how do I change the colors that the game uses?
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Looking for a nord-like theme
Color Schemes are available here for all kinds of terminal apps: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes.
- Best schemes colors for Linux?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing alacritty and iTerm2-Color-Schemes you can also consider the following projects:
Rio - A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.
wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
catppuccin - 😸 Soothing pastel theme for the high-spirited!
foot - Unofficial Mirror: A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
tilix - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3