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ALACRITTY(5) File Formats Manual ALACRITTY(5) NAME Alacritty - TOML configuration file format. SYNTAX Alacritty's configuration file uses the TOML format. The format's specifi- cation can be found at https://toml.io/en/v1.0.0. LOCATION Alacritty doesn't create the config file for you, but it looks for one in the following locations on UNIX systems: 1. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.toml 2. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.toml 3. $HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml 4. $HOME/.alacritty.toml 5. /etc/alacritty/alacritty.toml On Windows, the config file will be looked for in: 1. %APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.toml GENERAL This section documents the [general] table of the configuration file. import = ["<string>",] Import additional configuration files. Imports are loaded in order, skipping all missing files, with the im- porting file being loaded last. If a field is already present in a pre- vious import, it will be replaced. All imports must either be absolute paths starting with /, paths rela- tive to the user's home directory starting with ~/, or paths relative from the current config file. Example: import = [ "~/.config/alacritty/base16-dark.toml", "~/.config/alacritty/keybindings.toml", "alacritty-theme/themes/gruvbox_dark.toml", ] working_directory = "<string>" | "None" Directory the shell is started in. When this is unset, or "None", the working directory of the parent process will be used. Default: "None" live_config_reload = true | false Live config reload (changes require restart) Default: true ipc_socket = true | false # (unix only) Offer IPC using alacritty msg Default: true ENV All key-value pairs in the [env] section will be added as environment vari- ables for any process spawned by Alacritty, including its shell. Some en- tries may override variables set by alacritty itself. Example: [env] WINIT_X11_SCALE_FACTOR = "1.0" WINDOW This section documents the [window] table of the configuration file. dimensions = { columns = <integer>, lines = <integer> } Window dimensions (changes require restart). Number of lines/columns (not pixels) in the terminal. Both lines and columns must be non-zero for this to take effect. The number of columns must be at least 2, while using a value of 0 for columns and lines will fall back to the window manager's recommended size Default: { columns = 0, lines = 0 } position = "None" | { x = <integer>, y = <integer> } # (has no effect on Wayland) Window startup position. Specified in number of pixels. If the position is "None", the window manager will handle placement. Default: "None" padding = { x = <integer>, y = <integer> } Blank space added around the window in pixels. This padding is scaled by DPI and the specified value is always added at both opposing sides. Default: { x = 0, y = 0 } dynamic_padding = true | false Spread additional padding evenly around the terminal content. Default: false decorations = "Full" | "None" | "Transparent" | "Buttonless" Window decorations. Full Borders and title bar. None Neither borders nor title bar. Transparent (macOS only) Title bar, transparent background and title bar buttons. Buttonless (macOS only) Title bar, transparent background and no title bar buttons. Default: "Full" opacity = <float> Background opacity as a floating point number from 0.0 to 1.0. The value 0.0 is completely transparent and 1.0 is opaque. Default: 1.0 blur = true | false # (works on macOS/KDE Wayland) Request compositor to blur content behind transparent windows. Default: false startup_mode = "Windowed" | "Maximized" | "Fullscreen" | "SimpleFullscreen" Startup mode (changes require restart) Windowed Regular window. Maximized The window will be maximized on startup. Fullscreen The window will be fullscreened on startup. SimpleFullscreen (macOS only) Same as Fullscreen, but you can stack windows on top. Default: "Windowed" title = "<string>" Window title. Default: "Alacritty" dynamic_title = true | false Allow terminal applications to change Alacritty's window title. Default: true class = { instance = "<string>", general = "<string>" } # (Linux/BSD only) Window class. On Wayland, general is used as app_id and instance is ignored. Default: { instance = "Alacritty", general = "Alacritty" } decorations_theme_variant = "Dark" | "Light" | "None" Override the variant of the System theme/GTK theme/Wayland client side decorations. Set this to "None" to use the system's default theme vari- ant. Default: "None" resize_increments = true | false # (works on macOS/X11) Prefer resizing window by discrete steps equal to cell dimensions. Default: false option_as_alt = "OnlyLeft" | "OnlyRight" | "Both" | "None" # (macOS only) Make Option key behave as Alt. Default: "None" level = "Normal" | "AlwaysOnTop" Sets window level. Normal Window adheres to system's default z-order. AlwaysOnTop Window is a toplevel window. Default: "Normal" Example: [window] padding = { x = 3, y = 3 } dynamic_padding = true opacity = 0.9 SCROLLING This section documents the [scrolling] table of the configuration file. history = <integer> Maximum number of lines in the scrollback buffer. Specifying 0 will disable scrolling. Limited to 100000. Default: 10000 multiplier = <integer> Number of line scrolled for every input scroll increment. Default: 3 FONT This section documents the [font] table of the configuration file. normal = { family = "<string>", style = "<string>" } Default: Linux/BSD: { family = "monospace", style = "Regular" } Windows: { family = "Consolas", style = "Regular" } macOS: { family = "Menlo", style = "Regular" } bold = { family = "<string>", style = "<string>" } If the family is not specified, it will fall back to the value speci- fied for the normal font. Default: { style = "Bold" } italic = { family = "<string>", style = "<string>" } If the family is not specified, it will fall back to the value speci- fied for the normal font. Default: { style = "Italic" } bold_italic = { family = "<string>", style = "<string>" } If the family is not specified, it will fall back to the value speci- fied for the normal font. Default: { style = "Bold Italic" } size = <float> Font size in points. Default: 11.25 offset = { x = <integer>, y = <integer> } Offset is the extra space around each character. y can be thought of as modifying the line spacing, and x as modifying the letter spacing. Default: { x = 0, y = 0 } glyph_offset = { x = <integer>, y = <integer> } Glyph offset determines the locations of the glyphs within their cells with the default being at the bottom. Increasing x moves the glyph to the right, increasing y moves the glyph upward. builtin_box_drawing = true | false When true, Alacritty will use a custom built-in font for box drawing characters (Unicode points U+2500 - U+259F), legacy computing symbols (U+1FB00 - U+1FB3B), and powerline symbols (U+E0B0 - U+E0B3). Default: true COLORS This section documents the [colors] table of the configuration file. Colors are specified using their hexadecimal values with a # prefix: #RRGGBB. primary This section documents the [colors.primary] table of the configuration file. foreground = "<string>" Default: "#d8d8d8" background = "<string>" Default: "#181818" dim_foreground = "<string>" If this is not set, the color is automatically calculated based on the foreground color. Default: "#828482" bright_foreground = "<string>" This color is only used when draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors is true. If this is not set, the normal foreground will be used. Default: "None" cursor = { text = "<string>", cursor = "<string>" } Colors which should be used to draw the terminal cursor. Allowed values are hexadecimal colors like #ff00ff, or CellFore- ground/CellBackground, which references the affected cell. Default: { text = "CellBackground", cursor = "CellForeground" } vi_mode_cursor = { text = "<string>", cursor = "<string>" } Colors for the cursor when the vi mode is active. Allowed values are hexadecimal colors like #ff00ff, or CellFore- ground/CellBackground, which references the affected cell. Default: { text = "CellBackground", cursor = "CellForeground" } search This section documents the [colors.search] table of the configuration. Allowed values are hexadecimal colors like #ff00ff, or CellFore- ground/CellBackground, which references the affected cell. matches = { foreground = "<string>", background = "<string>" } Default: { foreground = "#181818", background = "#ac4242" } focused_match = { foreground = "<string>", background = "<string>" } Default: { foreground = "#181818", background = "#f4bf75" } hints This section documents the [colors.hints] table of the configuration. start = { foreground = "<string>", background = "<string>" } First character in the hint label. Allowed values are hexadecimal colors like #ff00ff, or CellFore- ground/CellBackground, which references the affected cell. Default: { foreground = "#181818", background = "#f4bf75" } end = { foreground = "<string>", background = "<string>" } All characters after the first one in the hint label. Allowed values are hexadecimal colors like #ff00ff, or CellFore- ground/CellBackground, which references the affected cell. Default: { foreground = "#181818", background = "#ac4242" } line_indicator = { foreground = "<string>", background = "<string>" } Color used for the indicator displaying the position in history during search and vi mode. Setting this to "None" will use the opposing primary color. Default: { foreground = "None", background = "None" } footer_bar = { foreground = "<string>", background = "<string>" } Color used for the footer bar on the bottom, used by search regex in- put, hyperlink URI preview, etc. Default: { foreground = "#181818", background = "#d8d8d8" } selection = { text = "<string>", background = "<string>" } Colors used for drawing selections. Allowed values are hexadecimal colors like #ff00ff, or CellFore- ground/CellBackground, which references the affected cell. Default: { text = "CellBackground", background = "CellForeground" } normal This section documents the [colors.normal] table of the configuration. black = "<string>" Default: "#181818" red = "<string>" Default: "#ac4242" green = "<string>" Default: "#90a959" yellow = "<string>" Default: "#f4bf75" blue = "<string>" Default: "#6a9fb5" magenta = "<string>" Default: "#aa759f" cyan = "<string>" Default: "#75b5aa" white = "<string>" Default: "#d8d8d8" bright This section documents the [colors.bright] table of the configuration. black = "<string>" Default: "#6b6b6b" red = "<string>" Default: "#c55555" green = "<string>" Default: "#aac474" yellow = "<string>" Default: "#feca88" blue = "<string>" Default: "#82b8c8" magenta = "<string>" Default: "#c28cb8" cyan = "<string>" Default: "#93d3c3" white = "<string>" Default: "#f8f8f8" dim This section documents the [colors.dim] table of the configuration. If the dim colors are not set, they will be calculated automatically based on the normal colors. black = "<string>" Default: "#0f0f0f" red = "<string>" Default: "#712b2b" green = "<string>" Default: "#5f6f3a" yellow = "<string>" Default: "#a17e4d" blue = "<string>" Default: "#456877" magenta = "<string>" Default: "#704d68" cyan = "<string>" Default: "#4d7770" white = "<string>" Default: "#8e8e8e" indexed_colors = [{ index = <integer>, color = "<string>" },] The indexed colors include all colors from 16 to 256. When these are not set, they're filled with sensible defaults. Default: [] transparent_background_colors = true | false Whether or not window.opacity applies to all cell backgrounds, or only to the default background. When set to true all cells will be transpar- ent regardless of their background color. Default: false draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors = true | false When true, bold text is drawn using the bright color variants. Default: false BELL This section documents the [bell] table of the configuration file. animation = "Ease" | "EaseOut" | "EaseOutSine" | "EaseOutQuad" | "Ease- OutCubic" | "EaseOutQuart" | "EaseOutQuint" | "EaseOutExpo" | "EaseOutCirc" | "Linear" Visual bell animation effect for flashing the screen when the visual bell is rung. Default: "Linear" duration = <integer> Duration of the visual bell flash in milliseconds. A `duration` of `0` will disable the visual bell animation. Default: 0 color = "<string>" Visual bell animation color. Default: "#ffffff" command = "<string>" | { program = "<string>", args = ["<string>",] } This program is executed whenever the bell is rung. When set to "None", no command will be executed. Default: "None" SELECTION This section documents the [selection] table of the configuration file. semantic_escape_chars = "<string>" This string contains all characters that are used as separators for "semantic words" in Alacritty. Default: ",^a`|:\"' ()[]{}<>\t" save_to_clipboard = true | false When set to true, selected text will be copied to the primary clip- board. Default: false CURSOR This section documents the [cursor] table of the configuration file. style = { <shape>, <blinking> } shape = "Block" | "Underline" | "Beam" Default: "Block" blinking = "Never" | "Off" | "On" | "Always" Never Prevent the cursor from ever blinking Off Disable blinking by default On Enable blinking by default Always Force the cursor to always blink Default: "Off" vi_mode_style = { <shape>, <blinking> } | "None" If the vi mode cursor style is "None" or not specified, it will fall back to the active value of the normal cursor. Default: "None" blink_interval = <integer> Cursor blinking interval in milliseconds. Default: 750 blink_timeout = <integer> Time after which cursor stops blinking, in seconds. Specifying 0 will disable timeout for blinking. Default: 5 unfocused_hollow = true | false When this is true, the cursor will be rendered as a hollow box when the window is not focused. Default: true thickness = <float> Thickness of the cursor relative to the cell width as floating point number from 0.0 to 1.0. Default: 0.15 TERMINAL This section documents the [terminal] table of the configuration file. shell = "<string>" | { program = "<string>", args = ["<string>",] } You can set shell.program to the path of your favorite shell, e.g. /bin/zsh. Entries in shell.args are passed as arguments to the shell. Default: Linux/BSD/macOS: $SHELL or the user's login shell, if $SHELL is un- set Windows: "powershell" Example: shell = { program = "/bin/zsh", args = ["-l"] } osc52 = "Disabled" | "OnlyCopy" | "OnlyPaste" | "CopyPaste" Controls the ability to write to the system clipboard with the OSC 52 escape sequence. While this escape sequence is useful to copy contents from the remote server, allowing any application to read from the clip- board can be easily abused while not providing significant benefits over explicitly pasting text. Default: "OnlyCopy" MOUSE This section documents the [mouse] table of the configuration file. hide_when_typing = true | false When this is true, the cursor is temporarily hidden when typing. Default: false bindings = [{ <mouse>, <mods>, <mode>, <command> | <chars> | <action> },] See keyboard.bindings for full documentation on mods, mode, command, chars, and action. When an application running within Alacritty captures the mouse, the `Shift` modifier can be used to suppress mouse reporting. If no action is found for the event, actions for the event without the `Shift` modi- fier are triggered instead. mouse = "Middle" | "Left" | "Right" | "Back" | "Forward" | <integer> Mouse button which needs to be pressed to trigger this binding. action = <keyboard.bindings.action> | "ExpandSelection" ExpandSelection Expand the selection to the current mouse cursor location. Example: [mouse] bindings = [ { mouse = "Right", mods = "Control", action = "Paste" }, ] HINTS This section documents the [hints] table of the configuration file. Terminal hints can be used to find text or hyperlinks in the visible part of the terminal and pipe it to other applications. alphabet = "<string>" Keys used for the hint labels. Default: "jfkdls;ahgurieowpq" enabled = [{ <regex>, <hyperlinks>, <post_processing>, <persist>, <action>, <command>, <binding>, <mouse> },] Array with all available hints. Each hint must have at least one of regex or hyperlinks and either an ac- tion or a command. regex = "<string>" Regex each line will be compared against. hyperlinks = true | false When this is true, all OSC 8 escape sequence hyperlinks will be in- cluded in the hints. post_processing = true | false When this is true, heuristics will be used to shorten the match if there are characters likely not to be part of the hint (e.g. a trailing .). This is most useful for URIs and applies only to regex matches. persist = true | false When this is true, hints remain persistent after selection. action = "Copy" | "Paste" | "Select" | "MoveViModeCursor" Copy Copy the hint's text to the clipboard. Paste Paste the hint's text to the terminal or search. Select Select the hint's text. MoveViModeCursor Move the vi mode cursor to the beginning of the hint. command = "<string>" | { program = "<string>", args = ["<string>",] } Command which will be executed when the hint is clicked or selected with the binding. The hint's text is always attached as the last argument. binding = { key = "<string>", mods = "<string>", mode = "<string>" } See keyboard.bindings for documentation on available values. This controls which key binding is used to start the keyboard hint selection process. mouse = { mods = "<string>", enabled = true | false } See keyboard.bindings for documentation on available mods. The enabled field controls if the hint should be underlined when hovering over the hint text with all mods pressed. Default: [[hints.enabled]] command = "xdg-open" # On Linux/BSD # command = "open" # On macOS # command = { program = "cmd", args = [ "/c", "start", "" ] } # On Windows hyperlinks = true post_processing = true persist = false mouse.enabled = true binding = { key = "O", mods = "Control|Shift" } regex = "(ipfs:|ipns:|magnet:|mailto:|gemini://|go- pher://|https://|http://|news:|file:|git://|ssh:|ftp://)[^\u0000-\u001F\u007F-\u009F<>\"\\s{-}\\^^a"^a(C)`\\\\]+" KEYBOARD This section documents the [keyboard] table of the configuration file. bindings = [{ <key>, <mods>, <mode>, <command> | <chars> | <action> },] To unset a default binding, you can use the action "ReceiveChar" to re- move it or "None" to inhibit any action. Multiple keybindings can be triggered by a single key press and will be executed in the order they are defined in. key = "<string>" _ The regular keys like "A", "0", and "Dh " can be mapped directly without any special syntax. Full list of named keys like "F1" and the syntax for dead keys can be found here: https://docs.rs/winit/latest/winit/keyboard/enum.NamedKey.html https://docs.rs/winit/latest/winit/keyboard/enum.Key.html#vari- ant.Dead Numpad keys are prefixed by Numpad: "NumpadEnter" | "NumpadAdd" | "NumpadComma" | "NumpadDecimal" | "NumpadDivide" | "NumpadEquals" | "NumpadSubtract" | "NumpadMultiply" | "Numpad[0-9]". The key field also supports using scancodes, which are specified as a decimal number. mods = "Command" | "Control" | "Option" | "Super" | "Shift" | "Alt" Multiple modifiers can be combined using |, like this: "Control | Shift". mode = "AppCursor" | "AppKeypad" | "Search" | "Alt" | "Vi" This defines a terminal mode which must be active for this binding to have an effect. Prepending ~ to a mode will require the mode to not = be active for the binding to take effect. Multiple modes can be combined using |, like this: "~Vi|Search". command = "<string>" | { program = "<string>", args = ["<string>",] } Fork and execute the specified command. chars = "<string>" Writes the specified string to the terminal. action ReceiveChar Allow receiving char input. None No action. Paste Paste contents of system clipboard. Copy Store current selection into clipboard. IncreaseFontSize Increase font size. DecreaseFontSize Decrease font size. ResetFontSize Reset font size to the config value. ScrollPageUp Scroll exactly one page up. ScrollPageDown Scroll exactly one page down. ScrollHalfPageUp Scroll half a page up. ScrollHalfPageDown Scroll half a page down. ScrollLineUp Scroll one line up. ScrollLineDown Scroll one line down. ScrollToTop Scroll all the way to the top. ScrollToBottom Scroll all the way to the bottom. ClearHistory Clear the display buffer(s) to remove history. Hide Hide the Alacritty window. Minimize Minimize the Alacritty window. Quit Quit Alacritty. ClearLogNotice Clear warning and error notices. SpawnNewInstance Spawn a new instance of Alacritty. CreateNewWindow Create a new Alacritty window. ToggleFullscreen Toggle fullscreen. ToggleMaximized Toggle maximized. ClearSelection Clear active selection. ToggleViMode Toggle vi mode. SearchForward Start a forward buffer search. SearchBackward Start a backward buffer search. Vi mode actions: Up Move up. Down Move down. Left Move left. Right Move right. First First column, or beginning of the line when already at the first column. Last Last column, or beginning of the line when already at the last column. FirstOccupied First non-empty cell in this terminal row, or first non-empty cell of the line when already at the first cell of the row. High Move to top of screen. Middle Move to center of screen. Low Move to bottom of screen. SemanticLeft Move to start of semantically separated word. SemanticRight Move to start of next semantically separated word. SemanticLeftEnd Move to end of previous semantically separated word. SemanticRightEnd Move to end of semantically separated word. WordLeft Move to start of whitespace separated word. WordRight Move to start of next whitespace separated word. WordLeftEnd Move to end of previous whitespace separated word. WordRightEnd Move to end of whitespace separated word. Bracket Move to opposing bracket. ParagraphUp Move above the current paragraph. ParagraphDown Move below the current paragraph. ToggleNormalSelection Toggle normal vi selection. ToggleLineSelection Toggle line vi selection. ToggleBlockSelection Toggle block vi selection. ToggleSemanticSelection Toggle semantic vi selection. SearchNext Jump to the beginning of the next match. SearchPrevious Jump to the beginning of the previous match. SearchStart Jump to the next start of a match to the left of the origin. SearchEnd Jump to the next end of a match to the right of the origin. Open Launch the URL below the vi mode cursor. CenterAroundViCursor Centers the screen around the vi mode cursor. InlineSearchForward Search forward within the current line. InlineSearchBackward Search backward within the current line. InlineSearchForwardShort Search forward within the current line, stopping just short of the character. InlineSearchBackwardShort Search backward within the current line, stopping just short of the character. InlineSearchNext Jump to the next inline search match. InlineSearchPrevious Jump to the previous inline search match. SemanticSearchForward Search forward for selection or word under the cursor. SemanticSearchBackward Search backward for selection or word under the cursor. Search actions: SearchFocusNext Move the focus to the next search match. SearchFocusPrevious Move the focus to the previous search match. SearchConfirm Confirm the active search. SearchCancel Cancel the active search. SearchClear Reset the search regex. SearchDeleteWord Delete the last word in the search regex. SearchHistoryPrevious Go to the previous regex in the search history. SearchHistoryNext Go to the next regex in the search history. macOS exclusive: ToggleSimpleFullscreen Enter fullscreen without occupying another space. HideOtherApplications Hide all windows other than Alacritty. CreateNewTab Create new window in a tab. SelectNextTab Select next tab. SelectPreviousTab Select previous tab. SelectTab1 Select the first tab. SelectTab2 Select the second tab. SelectTab3 Select the third tab. SelectTab4 Select the fourth tab. SelectTab5 Select the fifth tab. SelectTab6 Select the sixth tab. SelectTab7 Select the seventh tab. SelectTab8 Select the eighth tab. SelectTab9 Select the ninth tab. SelectLastTab Select the last tab. Linux/BSD exclusive: CopySelection Copy from the selection buffer. PasteSelection Paste from the selection buffer. Default: See alacritty-bindings(5) Example: [keyboard] bindings = [ { key = "N", mods = "Control|Shift", action = "CreateNewWindow" }, { key = "L", mods = "Control|Shift", chars = "l" }, ] DEBUG This section documents the [debug] table of the configuration file. Debug options are meant to help troubleshoot issues with Alacritty. These can change or be removed entirely without warning, so their stability shouldn't be relied upon. render_timer = true | false Display the time it takes to draw each frame. Default: false persistent_logging = true | false Keep the log file after quitting Alacritty. Default: false log_level = "Off" | "Error" | "Warn" | "Info" | "Debug" | "Trace" Default: "Warn" To add extra libraries to logging ALACRITTY_EXTRA_LOG_TARGETS variable can be used. Example: ALACRITTY_EXTRA_LOG_TARGETS="winit;vte" alacritty -vvv renderer = "glsl3" | "gles2" | "gles2pure" | "None" Force use of a specific renderer, "None" will use the highest available one. Default: "None" print_events = true | false Log all received window events. Default: false highlight_damage = true | false Highlight window damage information. Default: false prefer_egl = true | false Use EGL as display API if the current platform allows it. Note that transparency may not work with EGL on Linux/BSD. Default: false SEE ALSO alacritty(1), alacritty-msg(1), alacritty-bindings(5) BUGS Found a bug? Please report it at https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/is- sues. MAINTAINERS * Christian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com> * Kirill Chibisov <contact@kchibisov.com> 2026-06-13 ALACRITTY(5)
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