Switching To The Alacritty Terminal Emulator DistroTube
video description
Date: 2022-03-30
Related videos
Comments and reviews: 10
Colin
So I managed to get alacritty installed. I had to jump through lots of hoops (Deb/Ubuntu libraries and then adding a $PATH in the .bashrc. But I got it working. My question is how to run it directly. At the moment I have to pull up a Terminal (OS Mint 20) using it's little Terminal icon and from there type alacritty to run it. It seems dumb to pull up a terminal to pull up another terminal. Is that how it's done usually or am I missing something? Help would be appreciated.
reply
So I managed to get alacritty installed. I had to jump through lots of hoops (Deb/Ubuntu libraries and then adding a $PATH in the .bashrc. But I got it working. My question is how to run it directly. At the moment I have to pull up a Terminal (OS Mint 20) using it's little Terminal icon and from there type alacritty to run it. It seems dumb to pull up a terminal to pull up another terminal. Is that how it's done usually or am I missing something? Help would be appreciated.
reply
YT
-6:18 to clarify - it's not like 'it likes/dislikes' indentation. It's YAMO/YML file format where indentations replaced curly braces - - in the process of indicating functions and nesting. So adding a space like that means 'it's part of the parent function' - which obviously it is not. That's something I really hated in Python at first, now got used to it. Now I hate it in cloudformation templates, probably will get used to it at some point :))
reply
-6:18 to clarify - it's not like 'it likes/dislikes' indentation. It's YAMO/YML file format where indentations replaced curly braces - - in the process of indicating functions and nesting. So adding a space like that means 'it's part of the parent function' - which obviously it is not. That's something I really hated in Python at first, now got used to it. Now I hate it in cloudformation templates, probably will get used to it at some point :))
reply
Peacemekka
I use xterm. Feels like an og terminal. Also how customizing it is weird af.
And it feels like a total barebones terminal because of its similarity to the tty. (middle mouse to paste lol and its the only terminal can beep to my motherboard speakers other than tty itself)
I'm not leaving the papa of terminals for some gpu accelerated side hoe.
TL;DR Use what you love.
reply
I use xterm. Feels like an og terminal. Also how customizing it is weird af.
And it feels like a total barebones terminal because of its similarity to the tty. (middle mouse to paste lol and its the only terminal can beep to my motherboard speakers other than tty itself)
I'm not leaving the papa of terminals for some gpu accelerated side hoe.
TL;DR Use what you love.
reply
Oerjan
Just tried this and I only get errors on every setting I do :(
First is the font, I got Mononoki Nerd Font installed but noooo, still error on line 105 column 5 which is 'font:' thus that colon :(
If I remark that I get the same error on next section, line 179, column 7 which is: 'colors:' thus that colon again.
If I try to set scrolling, I get an error there....
ARGH!!
reply
Just tried this and I only get errors on every setting I do :(
First is the font, I got Mononoki Nerd Font installed but noooo, still error on line 105 column 5 which is 'font:' thus that colon :(
If I remark that I get the same error on next section, line 179, column 7 which is: 'colors:' thus that colon again.
If I try to set scrolling, I get an error there....
ARGH!!
reply
PixelSupreme
Maybe it's just me but this YML config file with all it's comments is an argument against readability of the YML format. The hierarchical structure is really hard to see. Yes there is indenting but that doesn't eliminate the fact that you have to scroll around quite a bit to find the section an element belongs to.
reply
Maybe it's just me but this YML config file with all it's comments is an argument against readability of the YML format. The hierarchical structure is really hard to see. Yes there is indenting but that doesn't eliminate the fact that you have to scroll around quite a bit to find the section an element belongs to.
reply
Guillermo
The bad: In old boxes, and most important, in many virtual machines, GL 3.30 is not supported so I had to bind an alias or function to start it with variable
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 alacritty
The good: Very good for putty replacement in windows (also as win powershell window)
reply
The bad: In old boxes, and most important, in many virtual machines, GL 3.30 is not supported so I had to bind an alias or function to start it with variable
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 alacritty
The good: Very good for putty replacement in windows (also as win powershell window)
reply
Terminalforlife
I would love to try a different terminal emulator, but xfce4-terminal(1) is the only one I know that always watches its configuration file for changes, updating accordingly; I need this for changing font sizes to presets. Know of anything else which does that?
reply
I would love to try a different terminal emulator, but xfce4-terminal(1) is the only one I know that always watches its configuration file for changes, updating accordingly; I need this for changing font sizes to presets. Know of anything else which does that?
reply
Tony
I have the config file copied to that exact address (with my actual home directory name) and alacritty is not locating it. I'm using Pop! OS 21.4. when I type the command alacritty-themes, I get the standard error, alacritty-themes: command not found. What the heck?
reply
I have the config file copied to that exact address (with my actual home directory name) and alacritty is not locating it. I'm using Pop! OS 21.4. when I type the command alacritty-themes, I get the standard error, alacritty-themes: command not found. What the heck?
reply
Colson
I wrote a simple C program to print 1 to 100K in a loop and run it on both Alacrity and xterm. I can literally see Alacrity is at least 100 times faster. Then I switched to gnome and ran the same test only to find out that gnome terminal i just as fast.
reply
I wrote a simple C program to print 1 to 100K in a loop and run it on both Alacrity and xterm. I can literally see Alacrity is at least 100 times faster. Then I switched to gnome and ran the same test only to find out that gnome terminal i just as fast.
reply
Алексей
I was working with alacrity for pretty long time and I have no idea why it's so but when I use open SSH then my alacritty goes mad and I can't do anything. It's so strange this is the reason I run xfc term for now.
reply
I was working with alacrity for pretty long time and I have no idea why it's so but when I use open SSH then my alacritty goes mad and I can't do anything. It's so strange this is the reason I run xfc term for now.
reply
Add a review, comment
Other channel videos
