How to install (and customise) Alacritty Terminal Emulator in Ubuntu (20.04+)

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  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

  • If you're not sure what to configure, you can copy the contents of this alacritty.yml file over at the official alacritty github repository here into your own yml file.

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  • All the configurations are commented out and you can uncomment out the specific things you would like to customize. If you already have some in mind, go ahead, uncomment and edit. If you're just starting out, try changing something small like say the font and see if you like it then continue customising your terminal through small changes from there. You can also check out this one here for inspiration.

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  • alacritty-theme

    Discontinued Collection of Alacritty color schemes

  • A note on themes Adding themes in Alacritty is as simple as copying and pasting the theme's color specifications into your alacritty.yml file. A great collection of some good themes and their color specifications can be found here

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