| .TH ALACRITTY "1" "August 2018" "alacritty 0.9.0-rc3" "User Commands" |
| .SH NAME |
| Alacritty \- A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator |
| .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
| alacritty [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 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. |
| .SH "FLAGS" |
| .TP |
| \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR |
| Prints help information |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-hold\fR |
| Remain open after child process exits |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-print\-events\fR |
| Print all events to stdout |
| .TP |
| \fB\-q\fR |
| Reduces the level of verbosity (the min level is \fB\-qq\fR) |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-ref\-test\fR |
| Generates ref test |
| .TP |
| \fB\-v\fR |
| Increases the level of verbosity (the max level is \fB\-vvv\fR) |
| .TP |
| \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR |
| Prints version information |
| .SH "OPTIONS" |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-class\fR <instance> | <instance>,<general> |
| Defines the window class hint on Linux [default: Alacritty,Alacritty] |
| |
| On Wayland the instance class sets the `app_id`, while the general class is ignored. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-command\fR <command>... |
| Command and args to execute (must be last argument) |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-config\-file\fR <config\-file> |
| Specify alternative configuration file |
| |
| Alacritty looks for the configuration file at the following paths: |
| 1. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml |
| 2. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.yml |
| 3. $HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml |
| 4. $HOME/.alacritty.yml |
| |
| On Windows, the configuration file is located at %APPDATA%\\alacritty\\alacritty.yml. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-embed\fR <parent> |
| Defines the X11 window ID (as a decimal integer) to embed Alacritty within |
| .TP |
| \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-option\fR <option>... |
| Override configuration file options [example: cursor.style=Beam] |
| .TP |
| \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-title\fR <title> |
| Defines the window title [default: Alacritty] |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-working\-directory\fR <working\-directory> |
| Start the shell in the specified working directory |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| See the alacritty github repository at https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty for the full documentation. |
| .SH "BUGS" |
| Found a bug? Please report it at https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues. |
| .SH "MAINTAINERS" |
| .sp |
| .RS 4 |
| .ie n \{\ |
| \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c |
| .\} |
| .el \{\ |
| .sp -1 |
| .IP \(bu 2.3 |
| .\} |
| Christian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com> |
| .sp |
| .ie n \{\ |
| \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c |
| .\} |
| Joe Wilm <joe@jwilm.com> |